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Agha Zia ol Din Araghi

Zia'eddin Araghi also known as Agha Zia'eddin Araghi (Persian: آقا ضیاء الدین عراقی) was an eminent Shia jurist, Usuli and Mujtahid during the flourishing the Usul Fiqh in Ja'fari school in Shia after Muhammad Baqir Behbahani.

Family[edit]

Araghi was born in 1861 in Arak, Iran. His name was Shaykh Ali but he was known as Zia Addin. His father was Mulla Muhammad Kabir Araghi and was Shia jurist and Mujtahid.

Education[edit]

First he learned the preliminary stages in Arak and then travelled to Isfahan and resided in Sadr religious school. He participated in Isfahan in the courses of Masters like Agha Sayyed Muhammad Hashim Chahar Souqi, Mirza Jahangir Khan Qashqaei, Akhun Muhammad Kashi, and Abul Ma'ali Kalbasi. Then he Immigrated to Najaf, Iraq. Before coming to Najaf, he first had the place of judge in Samara but this occupation did not satisfy him. Among his known masters in Najaf there were Mirza Habib Rashrti, Akhund Khorasani, Sayyed Muhammad Kazim Tabatabei Yazdi, Mirza Khalil Hoseini, Shaykh Al Shariah, Sayyed Muhammad Tabatabei Fesharaki, and Mirza Ebrahim Mahallati Shirazi.[1]

Sayyed Muhsin Hakim

Sayyed Muhammad Taqi Khansari

Sayyed Abul Qasem Khansari

Sayyed Mahmud Shahroudi

Sayyed Abul Qasem Khoei

The late Muhammad Taqi Bahjat

Sayyed Abdullah Shirazi

Sayyed Abdul Hadi Shirazi

Sayyed Aul Hasan Shirazi

Ayatollah Qaravi Aliyari

Shaykh Muhammad Taqi Amoli

Mirza Hashem Amoli

He also taught many eminent pupils such as following:[2][3][4]

Mohammad-Kazem Khorasani

Iranian Constitutional Revolution

Intellectual movements in Iran

Mirza Hussein Naini

List of maraji

Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi

Hibatuddin Shahrestani

Mohammad Hossein Esheni Qudejani