Mehdi Haeri Yazdi

Mehdi Haeri Yazdi
مهدی حائری یزدی
TitleAyatollah
Personal
Born1923
Died8 July 1999
ReligionIslam
NationalityIranian
Parent
JurisprudenceTwelver Shia Islam
Alma materQom Hawza
TeachersAbdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi,

Ruhollah Khomeini, Hossein Borujerdi,

Mirza Mahdi Ashtiani
RelativesMorteza Haeri Yazdi (brother)

Mehdi Haeri Yazdi (Persian: مهدی حائری یزدی ; Arabic: المهدي الحائري اليزدي; al-Ḥa’irī̄ al-Yazdī̄; b. 1923, Qom, Sublime State of Persia – 8 July 1999, Tehran, Iran) was an Iranian philosopher and Shia Islamic cleric.[1] He was the first son of Abdul Karim Haeri Yazdi, the founder of Qom Seminary and teacher of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who became the leader of the Iranian Revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

  1. ^ Farzin Vahdat (2015). Islamic Ethos and the Specter of Modernity. Anthem Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-1-78308-439-5.