Mojtaba Tehrani
Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1933-2013) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grand Ayatollah Agha Mojtaba Tehrani (Persian: مجتبي تهراني) (4 April 1933 – 1 January 2013) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja' taqlid, which is described as "a high-ranking Shia cleric who is regarded as a source of emulation".[1]
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Grand Ayatollah Mojtaba Tehrani | |
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مجتبي تهراني | |
Born | (1937-04-04)4 April 1937 |
Died | 1 January 2013(2013-01-01) (aged 79) Tehran, Iran |
Website | www |
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Tehrani studied at the Islamic seminary in Qum under the future Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and he wrote a personal Resalah, a legal manual of edicts on Islamic law. He was "imam of one of Tehran's largest and most important mosques".[2] Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran attended his funeral procession.[3]