Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi

Grand Ayatollah
Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi
Religion Usuli Twelver Shia Islam
Other names Arabic: السيد تقي الطباطبايي القمي
Persian: سيد تقي طباطبايي قمي
Personal
Born (1923-02-21)February 21, 1923
Mashhad, Iran
Died October 26, 2016(2016-10-26) (aged 93)
Karbala, Iraq
Senior posting
Based in Qom, Iran
Title Ayatollah
Period in office 1965 - 2016
Religious career
Post Grand Ayatollah

Grand Ayatollah Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi (Arabic: السيد تقي الطباطبايي القمي Persian: سيد تقي طباطبايي قمي, February 21, 1923 – October 26, 2016) was an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja'.[1][2]

He, Ali al-Sistani, and Mirza Ali Falsafi are the only three people to whom Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei gave a written statement for confirmation of their Ijtihad.[3]

Birth and Education

He was born in Mashhad, Iran. He is the son of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Tabatabaei Qomi (1865-1947) and the younger brother of Grand Ayatollah Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi (1912-2007).

In 1936 he moved to Iraq and has studied in seminaries of Karbala and then Najaf under Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hadi Milani, Abdol Hadi Shirazi, Hossein Heli, Mohammad Kazem Shirazi, Mohammad Ali Kazemayni Broujerdi, and especially Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. He obtained his Ijtihad in 1965 in Najaf.[4]

Then he started teaching in the Seminary of Najaf until 1979, when he moved back to Iran and resided in Qom. In Qom, he continued teaching in the Seminary of Qom until his death.

Publications

He has written close to 50 Islamic books (mainly in Arabic), most of which are now used as the main sources of teaching in the Seminaries of Qom and Najaf.[5][6]

In 1984, his statements were published in a book by Abbas Hajiani Dashti with the title Lessons from pleading (درسهایی از شفاعت).[7]

Political views

He was one of the Independent Marja and didn't like to interfere in politics. He was among those Maraji that who declined to meet Ali Khamenei in September 2010.[8]

Personal views

Notes

See also

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