Azizollah Khoshvaght

Azizollah Khoshvaght (Persian: عزیزالله خوشوقت), also known as Ayatollah Khoshvaqt (or Khoshwaqt)^[8][9][10] (1926 – 19 February 2013),^[1][2][7] was a contemporary philosopher, mystic, theologian, and faqih. He was a student of Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi and Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini. He was the second child of the family, went to seminary after passing high-school, and went to Qom after educating for five years in Lorzadeh mosque in Tehran.^{[citation needed]}

Khoshvaght returned to Tehran after the end of his seminary education, and got married at the age of 33, resulting in 2 sons and 4 daughters.^[11][12] His parents were from Zanjan.^[13][14] Khoshvaqt was a prominent scholar,^[15][16] Faqih^[17][18] and a teacher of ethics.^[19][20]

Khoshvaght who was also well known as Aziz Khoshvaght,^[21][22] was also the Imam Jama'a of Imam Hassan-Mojtaba mosque in Tehran.^[23][24]

Azizollah Khoshvaght died at the age of 86,^[25][26] when he was in Mecca^[27][28] on 19 February 2013.^[29]