Ibn Babawayh cemetery ( fa, گورستان ابنبابویه or ), also spelled as Ebn-e Babviyeh,
Ebn-e Babooyeh, is located in
Iran
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in the town of
Rey (which is now inside
Greater Tehran
Greater Tehran is the urban agglomeration around Tehran that covers the central part of the Tehran Province and eastern part of the Alborz Province, that covers the contiguous cities of Tehran, Ray, Shemirānāt, and other areas.
As of 2012 ...
metropolitan area).
About
The cemetery is named after the most famous occupant,
Ibn Babawayh
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi (Persian: ar, أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱبْن بَابَوَيْه ٱلْقُمِيّ; –991), commonly referred to as Ibn Babawayh (Persian: ar, � ...
(d.991 CE) a scholar of
Shia
Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...
Islam. He taught in
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
and lived in
Rey at the end of his life. His works (more than 300 volumes) are used as valid sources in
Jurisprudence
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. His most famous book is ''Man La-yahzar al-faqih''. He died in 381 A.H. and his tomb is in Ebn-e Babooyeh.
Many Iranian giants of sports, literature, arts, culture, religion, and politics are buried there. The reason for this is Rey being a Shiite pilgrimage site because of the
Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine
The Shāh Abdol-Azīm Shrine ( fa, شاه عبدالعظیم), also known as Shabdolazim, located in Rey, Iran, contains the tomb of ‘Abdul ‘Adhīm ibn ‘Abdillāh al-Hasanī (aka Shah Abdol Azim). Shah Abdol Azim was a fifth generation des ...
, which led many pious people to be buried near to this place.
Notable graves
![Tomb of Mirza Abo al-Hasan Tabatabai (Jelveh)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Tomb_of_Mirza_Abo_al-Hasan_Tabatabai_%28Jelveh%29.jpg)
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Ibn Babawayh
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi (Persian: ar, أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱبْن بَابَوَيْه ٱلْقُمِيّ; –991), commonly referred to as Ibn Babawayh (Persian: ar, � ...
(d. 991) – medieval scholar
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Tughril
Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika'il ( fa, ابوطالب محمد تغریل بن میکائیل), better known as Tughril (; also spelled Toghril), was a Turkmen"The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes
by the Turk ...
(900–1063) – founder of the
Seljuk Empire
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Tughrul Tower
Toghrol Tower (also transliterated ''Toghrul'', ''Tughrol'', or ''Tughrul'') is a 12th-century monument, located in the city of Rey, Iran. Tuğrul Tower is near Rashkan Castle.
The brick tower is the tomb of Seljuk ruler Tughril, who died ...
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* Abdolbaghi Monajjembashi
( fa) (d. 1859) – politician
* Vahdat Kermanshahi
( fa) (1825–1883) – poet
* Gholamreza Esfahani
( fa) (1830–1887) – calligrapher
* Abolhassan Jelveh
( fa) (1823–1897) – mystic
* Mohammad-Taher Mirza
( fa) (b. 1835) – Qajar prince and scholar
* Mohammad-Hossein Foroughi Zoka ol-Molk
( fa) (1839–1907) – politician
* Mohammad Kermanshahi
( fa) (1827–1908) – physician
* Abulfazl Angha
( fa) (1850–1915) – Sufi leader
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Hossein Ardabili Hossein Ardabili (born 1297 Hijri in Ardabil, died 20th of Ramadan 1336 ) was an Iranian politician.
He and completed his primary education with professor Mirza Mohammad Ali Mirakhor Oghlu in Ardabil. He went to Mashhad via Ghafghaz and acquainte ...
(1880–1918) – politician
* Mohammad-Bagher Khosravi Kermanshahi
( fa) (1849–1919) – writer
* Fazlollah Aq-Evli
( fa) (1886–1920) –
Gendermerie officer
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Mirzadeh Eshghi
Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani ( fa, سید محمدرضا کردستانی; December 11, 1893July 3, 1924) was an Iranian political writer and poet who used the pen name Mirzadeh Eshghi ( fa, میرزاده عشقی).
Biography
He was born in Ha ...
(1894–1924) – journalist
* Ali-Naghi Ganjei
( fa) (1872–1929) – politician
* Yahya Marvasti
( fa) (1875–1929) – politician
* Yahya Kashani
( fa) (1873–1930) – journalist
* Parvaneh (Batoul Rezaei)
( fa) (1910–1933) – singer
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Ashrafeddin Gilani (1870–1934) – journalist and poet
* Asadollah Kharaqani
( fa) (1838–1936) – scholar
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Firouz Nosrat od-Dowleh III (1889–1937) – politician
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Fathollah Khan Akbar
Fathollah Khan Akbar ( Persian: فتح الله خان اکبر) was an Iranian Prime Minister. He was Minister of Justice in several Iranian Cabinets. He was a representative of Iranian Parliament from Ahwaz. He was the 17th Prime Minister of Iran ...
(1855–1938) –
prime minister
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(1920–21)
* Hadi Tajvidi
( fa) (1893–1939) – writer
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Mohammad-Ali Foroughi
Mohammad Ali Foroughi ( fa, محمدعلی فروغی; early August 1877 – 26 or 27 November 1942), also known as Zoka-ol-Molk ( Persian: ذُکاءُالمُلک), was a writer, diplomat and politician who served three terms as Prime Mini ...
(1877–1942) – scholar and prime minister (1925–26), (1933–35) and (1941–42)
* Hassan Razzaz
( fa) (1878–1942) – wrestler
* Karim Rashti
( fa) (d. 1944) – politician
* Fasihozzaman Shirazi
( fa) (1861–1945) – poet
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Hassan Esfandiari (1867–1945) – speaker of the
Majles
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(1935–43)
* Fatemeh Sayyah
( fa) (1902–1947) – scholar
* Abdol-Razzaq Baghayeri
( fa) (1869–1953) – scholar
*
Hossein Samiei (1876–1953) – politician
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Hossein Fatemi
Hossein Fatemi ( fa, حسین فاطمی; also Romanized as Hoseyn Fātemi; 10 February 1917 – 10 November 1954) was an Iranian scholar. A close associate of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, he proposed nationalization of Iranian oil and gas ...
(1918–1954) – politician
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Fakhr od-Dowleh Qajar (1883–1955) – Qajar princess
* Abdollah Razi
( fa) (1894–1955) – writer
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Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (1879–1956) – journalist and scholar
* Mohammad-Sadegh Koupal
( fa) (1893–1956) –
IIAF
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Imperial era
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general
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Ahmad Bahar
Haj Sheikh Ahmad Bahar (1889 Mashad, Iran – 1957 Tehran, Iran) was an Iranian politician, a patriotic poet, prominent journalist, writer, publisher and farmer.
Literary career
He was one of the best students of late Sheikh Abdoljavad Adib Neish ...
(1889–1957) – politician
* Roshanak Noedoust
( fa) (1898–1957) – journalist
* Mohammad-Ali Eghbal
( fa) (d. 1958) – politician
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Ebrahim Hakimi
Ebrahim Hakimi ( fa, ابراهیم حکیمی; 1869 – 19 October 1959) was an Iranian statesman who served as Prime Minister of Iran on three occasions.
Early life and education
Born in Tabriz in 1869, Ḥakimi was part of "an old and promin ...
(1871–1959) – prime minister (1945–46) and (1947–48)
* Hossein Kouhi Kermani
( fa) (1897–1959) – poet
* Amir Amir-Alam
( fa) (1876–1961) – politician and director of
Red Lion and Sun Society
* Rajab-Ali Khayat
( fa) (1883–1961) – mystic
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Mohammad-Hassan Shamshiri (1897–1961) – businessman
* Hadi Ranji Tehrani
( fa) (1907–1961) – poet
* Javad Fazel Larijani
( fa) (1916–1961) – writer
*
Mahvash (Masumeh Azizi Boroujerdi) (1920–1961) – singer
* Abolhassan Khanali
( fa) (1932–1961) – scholar
* Mohammad Shahbakhti
( fa) (1886–1962) – army general
*
Mahmoud Mahmoud (1882–1965) – writer
* Parkhideh (Nourolhoda Mozaffari)
( fa) (1913–1965) – actor
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Sadeq Amani (1930–1965) – terrorist
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Morteza Niknejad
Morteza Niknejad ( fa, مرتضی نیکنژاد) was an Iranian Shia Twelver who was a member of Islamic Coalition Party. Niknejad was born in 1942 in the south of Tehran in a religious family; he was a religious person since his period of ado ...
(1942–1965) – terrorist
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Mohammad Bokharaei
Mohammad Bokharaei, ( fa, محمد بخارایی) was a member of the executive branch of the "Islamic Coalition Party" who was born in 1944 in (the south of) Tehran. He assassinated Hassan Ali Mansur (the prime minister of the Shah) and was exe ...
(1944–1965) – terrorist
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Reza Saffar Harandi (1946–1965) – terrorist
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Jabbar Baghtcheban (1886–1966) – scholar
* Ali Heyat
( fa) (1888–1966) – politician
* Fakhr-e-Ozma Arghun
( fa) (1898–1966) – poet
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Hossein Behzad (1894–1968) – painter
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Gholamreza Takhti
Gholamreza Takhti ( fa, غلامرضا تختی, August 27, 1930 – January 7, 1968) was an Iranian Olympic Gold-Medalist wrestler and Varzesh-e Bastani (''Persian Traditional Sport'') practitioner.Houchang E. Chehabi, �TAḴTI, Ḡolām-Re ...
(1930–1968) – wrestler
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Rokneddin Mokhtari (1887–1970) – head of
National Police National Police may refer to the national police forces of several countries:
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and musician
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Abdollah Moazzami (1909–1971) – politician
* Ahmad Nazerzadeh Kermani
( fa) (1913–1976) – poet
* Morshed Cheloyi
( fa) (d. 1978) – mystic
* Ali-Akbar Derakhshani
( fa) (1896–1978) – army general
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Nasser Moghaddam
Lieutenant General Nasser Moghaddam ( fa, ناصر مقدم; 24 June 1921 – 11 April 1979) was the fourth and last chief of SAVAK (6 June 1978 – 12 February 1979). He succeeded General Nematollah Nassiri, who was arrested by the Shah's order i ...
(1921–1979) – army general and head of
SAVAK
SAVAK ( fa, ساواک, abbreviation for ''Sâzemân-e Ettelâ'ât va Amniat-e Kešvar'', ) was the secret police, domestic security and intelligence service in Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty. SAVAK operated from 1957 until prime ...
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Mohammad-Reza Ameli Tehrani (1927–1979) – politician
* Gholam-Hossein Minbashian
( fa) (1907–1980) – musician
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Asadollah Rashidian (1922–1980) – politician
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Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh ( fa, صادق قطبزاده, 24 February 1936 – 15 September 1982) was an Iranian politician who served as a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France, and foreign minister (30 November 1979 – ...
(1936–1982) – politician
* Mohsen Foroughi
( fr) (1907–1983) – architect
* Mohammad-Ali Riazi Yazdi
( fa) (1911–1984) – poet
* Abol-Qasem Payandeh
( fa) (1911–1984) – writer
* Khoshdel Tehrani
( fa) (1914–1986) – poet
* Heydar Reghabi
( fa) (1933–1987) – poet
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Kazem Sami (1934–1988) – politician
* Abbas Yamini Sharif
( fa) (1919–1989) – scholar
* Mehdi Khaledi
( fa) (1919–1990) – musician
* Hassan Sadat Naseri
( fa) (1925–1990) – scholar
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Ataollah Zahed ( fa) (1915–1991) – actor
* Mohammad Mohit Tabatabaei
( fa) (1901–1992) – scholar
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Gholamhossein Sadighi (1905–1992) – politician
* Ghanbar Rahimi
( fa) (1918–1992) – philanthropist
* Abol-Qasem Anjavi Shirazi
( fa) (1921–1993) – scholar
* Hadi Eslami
( fa) (1939–1993) – actor
* Ahmad Hashemi
( fa) (1939–1993) – actor
* Ali-Akbar Kaveh
( fa) (1894–1990) – calligrapher
* Ali-Akbar Ghaffari
( fa) (1924–2004) – writer
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Rahim Moazzenzadeh Ardabili (1925–2005) –
moazzen
* Mehdi Dadpey
( fa) (1940–2019) – air force general
References
External links
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Cemeteries in Tehran
Cemeteries in Iran
Shia cemeteries
Buildings and structures in Tehran Province
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