Mohammad-Kazem Khorasani
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| Born | Mashhad |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Occupation | Scholar |
| Known for | "Innovator" of osulal-feqh |
| Notable work | Kefayat al-osul |
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Mohammad Kazem Khorasani or Akhund-e Khorasani (Persian: محمد کاظم خراسانی, (1839-1911)) was Twelver Shi'a Marja, politician, philosopher, reformer. He's regarded as one of the most important Shia Mujtahid at the time. He was a lecturer at Najaf seminary for years and significant number of students from "different regions of the Muslim world" used to participate his lectures. His most famous work is The Sufficiency (Arabic: کفایه) where he gathered the jurispurdential ideas such as `continuity` and "presented them in a yet more rigorous fashion as a unified theory of jurisprudence."
He is known for using his position as a marja for political use in the Persian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) where he was one of the main clerical supporters of the revolution. He believed that "constitutional form of government" would be the best possible choice in the absence of Imam and regarded the "Persian revolution" a Jihad ("holy war") in which all Muslims had to participate.
He died "suddenly" and "mysteriously", when he aimed to leave Iraq for Iran in order against support constitutionalists' resistance to the Anglo-Russian invasion in 1911.
Khorasani was born in Mashhad where he did his early educations. Then he left for Sabzevar at 20 where he got familiar with Islamic philosophy under Molla Hadi Sabzavari. He continued Islamic philosophy under Molla Hosayn Khoʾi at the Sadr seminary in Tehran, the city where he learnt Logic and Hekmat. In 1861 he moved to Iraq and in Najaf worked on complementary studies under Grand Ayatollah Mirza Hassan Shirazi, famous for his campaign against the tobacco concession. Also he studied about two years under Morteza Ansari. Both Morteza Ansari and Mirza Hassan Shirazi were marja-e taqlid ("models for emulation") at the time.
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