Taqi Yazdi
Iranian Shia scholar and philosopher (1935–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi Giwachi (Persian: محمدتقی مصباح یزدی گیوهچی, romanized: Muḥammad Taqī Miṣbāḥ Yazdī Gīwachī; 31 January 1935 – 1 January 2021) was an Iranian Shia scholar, political theorist and philosopher who served as the spiritual leader of the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability.
Taqi Yazdi | |
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تقی یزدی | |
Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
In office 23 February 1999 – 23 May 2016 | |
Constituency | Tehran Province |
Majority | 879,883 (23.74%; 2006)[1] |
In office 21 February 1991 – 22 February 1999 | |
Constituency | Khuzestan Province |
Personal details | |
Born | Taqi Givechi[2] (1935-01-31)31 January 1935 Yazd, Imperial State of Persia |
Died | 1 January 2021(2021-01-01) (aged 85) Tehran, Iran |
Resting place | Fatima Masumeh Shrine |
Political party | Front of Islamic Revolution Stability (spiritual leader)[3] |
Other political affiliations | Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom[4] |
Children | 2 sons and 1 daughter[2] |
Relatives | Hossein Noori Hamedani (affinal)[2] |
Occupation | Political activist |
Years active | 1963–1964[2] 1989–2021[2] |
Membership | Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly |
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Website | Official website |
Theological work | |
Religion | Islam |
Denomination | Jaʿfari Twelver Shīʿā |
Era | Contemporary Islamic philosophy |
Main interests | Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist, Jihad[5] |
Notable ideas | Incompatibility of Islam and democracy[6] |
Years active | 1947–1960 (study)[7] 1966–2021 (teaching)[7] |
Alma mater | Qom Seminary Hindi School, Najaf (1950) Shāfīʿiya School, Yazd (1940s) Khān School, Yazd (1940s) |
Taught at | Qom Seminary Haghani Seminary Feyziyeh Seminary |
Institution | Imam Khomeini Educational Research Institute (1991–2021) In the Path of God Institute (1976–2021)[7] |
He was a member of the Assembly of Experts,[8][9] the body responsible for choosing the Supreme Leader, where he headed a minority faction.[10] He had been called 'the most conservative' and the most 'powerful' clerical oligarch in Iran's leading center of religious learning, the city of Qom.[11] Many of his students have gone on to "occupy sensitive administrative and security posts" in the Islamic Republic, serving as "guardians" of (his version of) Islamic government.[11]
From 1952 to 1960, in the holy city of Qom, he participated in the courses taught by Ruhollah Khomeini and Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i; and, for approximately fifteen years, he was a student of Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani.[12]
Mesbah Yazdi advocated Islamic philosophy and in particular Mulla Sadra's transcendent school of philosophy (Hikmat-e Muta`aliya). He believed that Iranians were moving away from religion and the values of Islamic revolution; and opposed western-style freedom and democratic governance,[13] promoted by the Iranian reform movement.[14][15]