Mohammad Taqi Amoli (18871971) was an Iranian

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jurist, philosopher and mystic.

Early life

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Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Amoli (1887–1971) was born in

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. His father was Mulla Muhammad Amoli. They were the relatives of Hakim Mirza Abul-Hasan Jelveh. Muhammad Taqi Amoli was really one of the contemporary great scholars. He also has been a prominent student of Allameh

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who was known as Qazi. He taught and led the mosque of Majd ed-Dowleh.

Teachers

Agha Zia Addin Araghi Zia'eddin Araghi also known as Agha Zia'eddin Araghi ( fa, آقا ضیاء الدین عراقی) was an eminent Shia jurist, Usuli and Mujtahid during the flourishing the Usul Fiqh in Ja'fari school in Shia after Muhammad Baqir Behbahani. F ...

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* Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani * Abdolhosein Hezarjaribi * Reza Nouri Mazandarani * Ali Nouri * Mirza Hassan kermanshahi * Abdul Nabi Nouri * Mohammad Hadi Taleghani

Students

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Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli Hassan Hasanzadeh Amoli ( fa, حسن حسن‌زاده آملی, 12 February 1929 – 25 September 2021) was an Iranian Shi'ite theologian known for his mystical tendencies and Islamic philosophy. He was among clerics who overcomed the tradition ...

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* Mehdi Mohaghegh *

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* Abdoldjavad Falaturi * Sayyed Hassan Saadat Mostafavi * Yahya Abedi * Mustafa Masjed Jameie * Mohammad Taqi Shariatmadari * Reza Isfahani

Works

Many books in different subjects such as philosophy, jurisprudence and theology were written by Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Taqi. Some of them are as below: *Notes on Faraed of Sheikh Ansary, explaining the poems of Hikmate Sabzevari, explaining the phrase of " there is no God but Allah" *Notes on Sharhe Matale in Logic *Notes On Sharhe Shamsiah, A Treaty on Praying and Islamic Judgments *Notes On Asfar (Al-Hikma al-muta‘aliya fi-l-asfar al-‘aqliyya al-arba‘a by

Mulla Sadra Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā ( fa, ملا صدرا; ar, صدر المتألهین) (c. 1571/2 – c. 1635/40 CE / 980 – 1050 AH), was a Persian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, the ...

) *Notes On Admonitions and The valuable collection of Mesbah Al Hedayah in 12 vol as a commentary on Orvatol Vosqa.

Death

He died in 1971 in Tehran and the shrine of

Ali al-Ridha Ali ibn Musa al-Rida ( ar, عَلِيّ ٱبْن مُوسَىٰ ٱلرِّضَا, Alī ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā, 1 January 766 – 6 June 818), also known as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Thānī, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the ...

tomb in the garden of Ridvan Sabzevar (son of Mirza Musa Mirza Hossein Sabzevari) buried.

bibliography

* Islamic Great encyclopedia,vol.2.pub:the center of Islamic great Encyclopedia, 1367 solar.

References

*Aqa Bozorg Tehrani, Tabaqate Aalame Shiah, vol.1 *Motaza Motahhari, Mutual services of Islam And Iran, Tehran, vol.2.1975

External links

* *{{cite web, url=http://lib.eshia.ir/23022/2/507/, title=کتابخانه مدرسه فقاهت - فارسی, publisher=lib.eshia.ir, accessdate=2014-05-24
Muhammad Taqi Amoli - Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia
1887 births 1971 deaths People from Amol Iranian jurists Iranian Shia clerics 20th-century Iranian philosophers