Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi | |
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Mesbah Yazdi on 16 March 2014
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Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
In office 23 February 1999 – 23 May 2016 |
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Constituency | Tehran Province |
Majority | 879,883 (23.74%; 2006) |
In office 21 February 1991 – 22 February 1999 |
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Constituency | Khuzestan Province |
Personal details | |
Born |
Taghi Givechi 31 January 1934 Yazd, Iran |
Political party | Front of Islamic Revolution Stability (spiritual leader) |
Other political affiliations |
Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom |
Relations | Hossein Noori Hamedani (affinal) |
Children | 2 sons and 1 daughter |
Occupation | Political activist |
Years active | 1963–1964 1989–present |
Membership |
Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly |
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Website | Official website |
Theological work | |
Religion | Islam |
Denomination | Jaʿfari Twelver Shīʿā |
Era | Contemporary Islamic philosophy |
Main interests | Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist, Jihad |
Notable ideas |
Incompatibility of Islam and democracy Religious intolerance |
Years active | 1947–1960 (Study) 1966–present (Teaching) |
Alma mater |
Qom Seminary Hindi School, Najaf (1950) Shāfīʿiya School, Yazd (1940s) Khān School, Yazd (1940s) |
Taught at |
Qom Seminary Haghani Seminary Feyziyeh Seminary |
Institution |
Imam Khomeini Educational Research Institute (1991–present) In the Path of God Institute (1976–present) |
Taqī Miṣbāḥ (Persian: تقی مصباح; born Taqī Givečī,Persian: تقی گیوهچی), commonly known as Muḥammad–Taqī Miṣbāḥ Yazdī (Persian: محمدتقی مصباح یزدی, born 31 January 1934) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'i cleric and principlist political activist who unofficially leads Front of Islamic Revolution Stability.
He was a member of the Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for choosing the Supreme Leader, where he heads a minority faction. He has been called 'the most conservative' and the most 'powerful' clerical oligarch in Iran's leading center of religious learning, the city of Qom.
In Qom, from 1952 to 1960, he participated in the courses taught by Imam Khomeini and Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i. He also attended, for approximately fifteen years, Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani.
Mesbah Yazdi advocates Islamic philosophy and in particular Mulla Sadra's transcendent school of philosophy (Hikmat-e Muta`aliya). He believes Iranian are moving away from religion and values of Islamic revolution and opposes democratic rule of western country and the west-oriented reform movement.