Āghā-Bozorg Tehrāni

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Agha-Bozorg Tehrani

Āghā-Bozorg Tehrāni ( Persian آقابزرگ تهراني, DMG Āġā-Bozorg Tehrānī * 1876 ; † 1970 ), also Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammed Hassan Raz , was an Iranian historian and bibliographer from Tehran . He is the author of adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf al-Shīʿa . His real name was Mohammad Mohsen , in 1931 when the identity card was introduced , he chose the name Monzavi for himself.

Life

Agha-Bozorg Tehrani was a Shia - mardschaʿ of the Hawza Elmiye in Najaf . He was the teacher of Ayatollah Ali Hussaini Sistani , Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi and many other personalities.

Agha-Bozorg Tehrani emigrated to Samarra and then to Najaf in Iraq at the beginning of the 20th century . His most famous work, Al Zaria men al tassanif el schia (short: Zaria or al-Dhari'ah ), is a bibliography in 26 volumes with an additional three index volumes. He traveled to many countries and for over 30 years collected information on Shiite works and writings in Iran and Iraq as well as in India , Pakistan , Syria and Egypt . He collected this information in six handwritten volumes. His eldest son Alinaghi Monzavi (* 1921) completed, corrected and published this work in another 30 years.

The first three volumes were printed in collaboration with father and son in Najaf after the Iraqi King Faisal II banned the operation of a printing company owned by an Iranian. Agha-Bozorg was forced to sell the print shop and move to Najaf, where he was less pressured by the higher proportion of Shiite people. Here, too, he was not allowed to own a print shop . His attempts to print the work nevertheless failed because the printing works were forbidden to print a book with the name of an Iranian on it. The first volume with an Arabic code name was published as the author. Alinaghi Monzavi, the eldest son of Agha-Bozorg, returned home and published the work in Tehran. With the permission of his father, he expanded, corrected and published volumes 4 to 26 (volume 9 is very extensive and had to be printed in three partial volumes) and three index volumes from 1936 to around 1980.

Work (selection)

  • Tabaghat e Aalam ol Schia (9 volumes)
  • Mosannafet-e Shi'e (6 volumes)
  • Mosanafol Maghal fi Elm ol Rejal

literature

  • Biography & Academic Life of HABozorg Tehrani Tehran 1387 h.š [2008], ISBN 978-964-528-174-6
  • IRAN DAILY, Aug. 4, 2008; News: World Manuscript Databank To Go Unveiled

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personal data
SURNAME Tehrāni, Āghā-Bozorg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tihrānī, Aġā Buzurg; Mohsen, Mohammad; Monzavi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian historian and bibliographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1876
DATE OF DEATH 1970