Agha Zia Addin Araghi

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Agha Zia Addin Araghi (Persian : 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.

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi, is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and some other regions which historically were Persianate societies and considered part of Greater Iran. It is written right to left in the Persian alphabet, a modified variant of the Arabic script.

Ja'fari principles refers to regulations, history and eminent persons and scholars during the development of shia's Principles of Islamic jurisprudence.

Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Akmal al-Wahid Bihbahani, also Vahid Behbahani (1706–1791), was a Twelver Shia Islamic scholar. He is widely regarded as the founder or restorer of the Usuli school of Twelver Shi'a Islam and as playing a vital role in narrowing the field of orthodoxy in Twelver Shi'a Islam by expanding "the threat of takfir" against opposing scholars "into the central field of theology and jurisprudence".

Family

Araghi was born on 1861 in Arak, Iran. His name was Shaykh Ali but known him as Zia Addin. His father was Mulla Muhammad Kabir Araghi and was Shia jurist and Mujtahid.^[1]

Arak, is the capital of Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 526,182, in 160,761 families. This city nicknamed the Industrial Capital of Iran.

Iran, also called Persia and officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a country in Western Asia. With over 81 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 18th most populous country. Comprising a land area of 1,648,195 km² (636,372 sq mi), it is the second largest country in the Middle East and the 17th largest in the world. Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, give it geostrategic importance. Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center.

Education

First he learned the preliminary stages in Arak and then travelled to Isfahan and reside in Sadr religious school. He participated in Isfahan in the courses of Masters like Agha Sayyed Muhammad Hashim Chahar Souqi, Mirza jahangir Khan Qashqaei, Akhun Muhammad Kashi, and Abul Ma'ali Kalbasi. Then he Immigrated to Najaf, Iraq. Of course before coming to Najaf, he first had the place of judge in Samara but this occupation did not satisfy him. Among his known masters in Najaf it could be refer to Mirza Habib Rashrti, Akhund Khorasani, Sayyed Muhammad kazim Tabatabei Yazdi, Mirza Khalil Hoseini, Shaykh Al Shariah, Sayyed Muhammad Tabatabei Fesharaki, and Mirza Ebrahim Mahallati Shrazi.^[2]

Isfahan is a city in Iran. It is located 406 kilometres south of Tehran, and is the capital of Isfahan Province.

Najaf or an-Najaf al-Ashraf is a city in central-south Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2013 was 1,000,000 people. It is the capital of Najaf Governorate. It is widely considered the third holiest city of Shia Islam, the Shi'ite world's spiritual capital, and the center of Shi'ite political power in Iraq.

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Pupils

He also taught many eminent pupils such as follow:^[3]^[4]^[5]

Sayyed Muhsin Hakim
Sayyed Muhammad Taqi Khansari
Sayyed ABul Qasem Khansari
Sayyed Mahmud Shahroudi
Sayyed Abul Qasem Khoei
The late Muhammad Taqi Bahjat
Sayyed Abdullah Shirazi
Sayyed Abdul Hadi Shirazi
Sayyed Aul Hasan Shirazi
Ayatollah Qaravi Aliyari
Shaykh Muhammad Taqi Amoli
Mirza Hashem Amoli

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[1] Davood Naeemi, Shams Al Foqaha & in persian , p. 18

[2] "دائرة المعارف بزرگ اسلامی:آقاضیاء عراقی".

[3] "کتابخانه مدرسه فقاهت - نشریه حوزه - دفتر تبلیغات اسلامی حوزه علمیه قم".

[4] "کتابخانه مدرسه فقاهت - آیینه پژوهش - دفتر تبلیغات اسلامی حوزه علمیه قم".

[5] "کتابخانه مدرسه فقاهت - خدمات متقابل اسلام و ایران - شهید استاد مرتضی مطهری".