A Hawza or Ḥawzah ʿIlmīyah is a seminary where Shi'a Muslim clerics are educated.
Mohammad Reyshahri, also known as Mohammad Mohammadi-Nik,, best known as Reyshahri, is an Iranian politician and cleric who was the first Minister of Intelligence, served from 1984 to 1989 in cabinet of Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, also spelled Shariat-Madari, was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away from governmental positions and was a critic of Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini, denouncing the taking hostage of diplomats at the US embassy in Tehran. In 1982 he was accused of being part of a plot to bomb Khomeini's home and to overthrow the Islamic state, and he remained under house arrest until his death in 1986. His followers also opposed Ruhollah Khomeini.
Haghani school is a Shi'i school of thought in Iran based in the holy city of Qom and headed by Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, an influential theologian. The Haghani Circle has its origin in the Haghani seminary, founded in 1964, which previously had been called Muntashiriya. After Ayatollahs Qoddusi and Beheshti, two of the leading members of the circle, were assassinated in 1981, the hawza changed its name to Shahidan Seminary.
Shariatmadari may refer to:
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Bahjat Foumani was an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja'.
Sadiq Hussaini Shirazi is a Shia Cleric. The Shirazi family is one of several influential transnational clerical families within Shia Islam. He is a senior Shia cleric. Shirazi's lectures are broadcast in Persian and Arabic with English subtitles on 18 television channels and three radio stations across the Muslim world.
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Golpaygani was an Iranian Shia Islam cleric and marja. He was born in Gogad village, near the city of Golpaygan, Iran. He was taught preliminary studies by his father, Mohammad Bagher. At the age of 9, his father died, and he moved to Golpaygan to continue his studies. At the age of 20, he moved to Arak to study under Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi. After Ha'eri Yazdi and Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Khansari founded the hawza of Qom, he moved there and delivered lectures in the Islamic Seminary. He was one of the highest-ranking Islamic clergy to participate in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and a one-time serious contender to succeed Ruhollah Khomeini as the Supreme Leader of Iran in 1989. However, his candidacy was voted down by the Assembly of Experts, in favor of the eventual successor and current leader, Ali Khamenei.
The Muslim People's Republic Party (MPRP) or Islamic People's Republican Party was a short-lived party associated with Shia Islamic cleric Shariatmadari. It was founded in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution as a "moderate, more liberal counterweight" to the theocratic, Islamist Islamic Republican Party (IRP) of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and disbanded in 1980.
Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja'.
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Nekoonam Iranian Twelver Shi'a Clergy.
The Qom Seminary is the largest Islamic seminary (hawza) in Iran, established in 1922 by Grand Ayatollah Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi in Qom.
The Dar al-Tabligh was a Shiite seminary in Qom. It was established in the mid-1960s by eminent grand ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari and soon emerged as one of the most popular hawza for Iranian and foreign students, with a prolific publishing outlet.
Ahmad Khonsari, also Aḥmad Khvānsārī, or Khvunsārī was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah and attained marja status after the death of marja Boroujerdi in 1961. In contrast to the other maraji of his time, who lived in the holy cities of Qom or Najaf, he was based in Tehran, where he ran his own hawza. Khonsari was one of the teachers of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Bibi Khanum was a female (Mujtahideh) from Najaf, Iraq. She was the daughter of the Shiite scholar Ayatollah Sheykh Mohammad Hasan Mamaqani, and one of her sons became a great Shiite scholar in turn, grand ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hadi Milani.
Mohammad Hasan Mamaqani (1822-1905) was a leading mujtahid of Najaf in the 19th century. He was born and educated in Najaf, Iraq, and died there, too. His daughter and her son became great Shiite scholars in their own right, Bibi Khanum and Mohammad Hadi Milani.
Muhammad Taqi Amoli (1887-1971) was an Iranian Shiite jurist, philosopher and mystic.
Sayyed Abul Hasan Rafiee Qazvini was an Iranian philosopher and jurist.
Sheykh Mohammad Hossein Gharavi Esfahani was an Iranian philosopher and jurist.
