Fazil Iravani

Fazil İrəvani
Religion	Islam
School	Shia
Personal
Born	1782 Yerevan, Erivan Khanate
Died	1885 (aged 102–103) Yerevan, Russian Empire
Senior posting
Based in	Tbilisi, Russian Empire
Title	Second Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus
Period in office	1846-1862
Predecessor	Mahammadali Huseinzadeh
Successor	Ahmad Huseinzadeh
Religious career
Post	Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus

Fazil Iravani (Azerbaijani: Fazil İrəvani) — Second Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus.

Fazil Iravani was born in Yerevan and got his primary religious education in same city. He went on to continue his education in 1802 to Al-Azhar University. He was akhund of Isfahan and Tabriz in his 40s.

He was appointed as deputy of Mahammadali Huseinzadeh in 1843. He was appointed as Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus prior to former's resignation. He reformed many clerical issues, including taking nikah rights from mosque mullahs and handing it over to more educated akhunds. He resigned his post in 1862. He died in 1885 in very old age. He was succeeded by Ahmad Huseinzadeh.

He was the author of famous novel The Rose and the Nightingale.

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