Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Movahed Abtahi

Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Movahed Abtahi (Luri/Persian:آیت الله العظمی سید محمد باقر موحد ابطحی) was a Shia Marja' , Islamic scholar and author.

Family

Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Movahed Abtahi was born in February 1928 in Isfahan, Iran, hence his surname. His father, Seyyid Morteza Movahed Abtahi, was a religious scholar in Isfahan and his mother was the daughter of Seyyid Mohammad Taqi Mosavi Isfahani.

Education and academic specialties

He started attending the classes required for the traditional schools at a very young age. He finished his academic studies in jurisprudence (fiqh) and its principles (usul), theosophy (hekmat), and the other Islamic intellectual (‘aqli) and transmitted (naqli) sciences, under the supervision of philosophers and scholars such as Rahim Arbab and Ayatollah Habib Abadi. Movahed Abtahi also learned logic , Mathematics and philosophy in Isfahan. Then in 1946 he went to the theological school of Qom to continue his education. In the five years that he studied in Qom he completed his sutuh studies and was also granted the level of Ijtihad from his teachers, and began teaching Usul. Around the age of 24 Movahed Abtahi moved from Qom to the theological seminary of Najaf, Iraq to continue his education.

Charitable Works

By the order of Ayatollah Movahed Abtahi and the help of some religious people, they constructed Vali Asr hospital, Aba Saleh al-Mahdi tunnel (the largest tunnel in Iran), vocational school, establish schools for carpet weaving and reconstruction or tombs of Imamzadeh Seyyed Mohammad (a son of the Twelver Shī‘ah Imām,, Abbas ibn Ali) in the city of Eqlid in Fars Province in Iran.

Death

Movahed Abtahi died in Tehran on February 5, 2014.

See also

• Ruhollah Khomeini
• Marja'
• List of Islamic studies scholars