Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi

Grand Ayatollah Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi (Arabic: السيد تقي الطباطبايي القمي‎ Persian: سيد تقي طباطبايي قمي‎, born February 21, 1923) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja'.^[1][2]

He, together with Ali al-Sistani and Mirza Ali Falsafi, are the only three people that Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei gave them a written statement for confirmation of their Ijtihad.^[3]

Birth and Education

He was born in Mashhad, Iran. He is the son of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Tabatabaei Qomi (1865-1947) and the younger brother of Grand Ayatollah Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi (1912-2007).

In 1936 he moved to Iraq and has studied in seminaries of Karbala and then Najaf under Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hadi Milani, Abdol Hadi Shirazi, Hossein Heli, Mohammad Kazem Shirazi, Mohammad Ali Kazemayni Broujerdi, and specially Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. He obtained his Ijtihad in 1965 in Najaf.^[4]

Then he starts teaching in the Seminary of Najaf until 1979, when he moved back to Iran and reside in Qom. In Qom, he has continued teaching in the Seminary of Qom until now.

Publications

He has written close to 50 Islamic books (mainly in Arabic), that most of them are now used as the main sources of teaching in the in the Seminaries of Qom and Najaf.^[5][6]

In 1984 and by Abbas Hajiani Dashti, his statements was published in a book with the title Lessons from pleading (درسهایی از شفاعت).^[7]

Political views

He in one of the Independent Marja and does not like to interfere in politics. He is among those Maraji that have not accept to meet Ali Khamenei in September 2010.^[8]

Personal views

• He does not like to open a personal website.
• He is among the critics of Ali Shariati ideas, and thinks some of Shariati ideas are against Islam.^[9]
• Some of his Islamic views are mentioned in Responses ideological (ردود عقائدية) website.^[10]

Notes

See also

• List of Maraji