Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad

Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad مصطفی محقق داماد
Ayatollah Mohaghegh Damad
Religion	Shia Islam (Usuli Twelver)
Other names	Persian: مصطفی محقق داماد‎‎
Personal
Born	1945
Senior posting
Title	Allameh
Religious career
Website	www.mdamad.com

Ayatollah Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad (Persian: سید مصطفی محقق داماد‎‎) is an Iranian Shia cleric and scholar.

Mohaghegh Damad was born on 1945 in the Qom. His father was Mohammad Mohaghegh Damad who was Shia Marja' and his grand father, Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi, was founder of Qom seminary. He has married with Mirza Hashem Amoli's daughter.

Mostafa passed his Islamic education in Arabic literature, Quran, Hadith, Islamic philosophy, theology, and jurisprudence at the Fayzieh School in the Qom. He achieved the degree of Ijtihad in 1970. Also, he continued his modern academic education in Islamic Philosophy and graduated on 1969 from Tehran University. After that he achieved his Master of Science degree in Islamic Jurisprudence on 1980 from Tehran University. In 1996, he went to Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium and earned his Ph.D. degree.

As of 1988, he is member of The Academy of Sciences of Iran. Also, he is a professor in Faculty of Law at Shahid Beheshti University from 2007. He reportedly has held such posts in Iran as Chief of the State Inspectorate Organization, head of the Department of Islamic Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Iran, head of Commission of Judicial Bill Collection of Iran, and head of Commission of Compiling Judicial Acts.