Taqi Yazdi

Taqi Yazdi
تقی یزدی
Yazdi in 2020
Member of the Assembly of Experts
In office
23 February 1999 – 23 May 2016
ConstituencyTehran Province
In office
21 February 1991 – 22 February 1999
ConstituencyKhuzestan Province
Personal details
Born
Taqi Givechi[1]

(1935-01-31)31 January 1935
Yazd, Imperial State of Persia
Died1 January 2021(2021-01-01) (aged 85)
Tehran, Iran
Resting placeFatima Masumeh Shrine
Political partyFront of Islamic Revolution Stability (spiritual leader)[2]
Other political
affiliations		Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom[3]
Children2 sons and 1 daughter[1]
RelativesHossein Noori Hamedani (affinal)[1]
OccupationPolitical activist
Years active1963–1964[1]
1989–2021[1]
MembershipSupreme Council of the Cultural Revolution
Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly
Signature
WebsiteOfficial website
Theological work
ReligionIslam
DenominationJaʿfari Twelver Shīʿā
EraContemporary Islamic philosophy
Main interestsGuardianship of the Islamic Jurist, Jihad[4]
Notable ideasIncompatibility of Islam and democracy[5]
Years active1947–1960 (study)[6]
1966–2021 (teaching)[6]
Alma materQom Seminary
Hindi School, Najaf (1950)
Shāfīʿiya School, Yazd (1940s)
Khān School, Yazd (1940s)
Taught atQom Seminary
Haghani Seminary
Feyziyeh Seminary
InstitutionImam Khomeini Educational Research Institute (1991–2021)
In the Path of God Institute (1976–2021)[6]

Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi Giwachi (Persian: محمدتقی مصباح یزدی گیوه‌چی, romanized: Muḥammad Taqī Miṣbāḥ Yazdī Gīwachī; 31 January 1935 – 1 January 2021) was an Iranian Shia scholar, political theorist and philosopher who served as the spiritual leader of the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability.

He was a member of the Assembly of Experts,[7][8] the body responsible for choosing the Supreme Leader, where he headed a minority faction.[9] He had been called 'the most conservative' and the most 'powerful' clerical oligarch in Iran's leading center of religious learning, the city of Qom.[10] Many of his students have gone on to "occupy sensitive administrative and security posts" in the Islamic Republic, serving as "guardians" of (his version of) Islamic government.[10]

From 1952 to 1960, in the holy city of Qom, he participated in the courses taught by Ruhollah Khomeini and Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i; and, for approximately fifteen years, he was a student of Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani.[11]

Mesbah Yazdi advocated Islamic philosophy and in particular Mulla Sadra's transcendent school of philosophy (Hikmat-e Muta`aliya). He believed that Iranians were moving away from religion and the values of Islamic revolution; and opposed western-style freedom and democratic governance,[12] promoted by the Iranian reform movement.[13][14]

  1. ^ a b c d e Nikpour, Abbas (March 2002) [Esfand 1380–Farvardin 1381], "Ayatollah Mesbah, From Margins to the Middle of the Text", Gozaresh (in Persian), no. 132–133, pp. 47–52, ISSN 1021-450X
  2. ^ Bozorgmehr, Najmeh (23 February 2012). "Hardline group emerges as Iran poll threat". Financial Times. London. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Iran: Qom divided over presidential candidates". Asharq Al-Awsat. 3 July 2013. Archived from the original on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  4. ^ Rahnema, Ali (2011). Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad. Cambridge University Press. pp. 94–95. ISBN 9781139495622.
  5. ^ Ashraf, Ahmad (5 April 2012) [15 December 2007]. "ISLAM IN IRAN xiii. ISLAMIC POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN 20TH CENTURY IRAN". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. 2. Vol. XIV. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 157–172. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  6. ^ a b c Muhammad Sahimi (29 September 2010). "Hojjatiyeh, Mesbahiyeh, and Ahmadinejad". Tehran Bureau.
  7. ^ 16 نماينده استان تهران در مجلس خبرگان مشخص شدند Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Freeman, Colin; Biouki, Kay (19 November 2006). "Ayatollah aims to be Iran's next spiritual leader". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 22 November 2006. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Beaumont was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ a b Nasr, Vali The Shia Revival, Norton, (2006), p. 216
  11. ^ "Biography". mesbahyazdi.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  12. ^ Javedanfar, Meir (6 May 2009). "Ahmadinejad's messianic connections". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference bayat was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference Afshin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).