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Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi Giwachi (Persian: محمدتقی مصباح یزدی گیوهچی, romanized: Muḥammad Taqī Miṣbāḥ Yazdī Gīwachī; 31 January 1935 – 1 January 2021) was an Iranian Shia scholar, political theorist and philosopher who served as the spiritual leader of the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability.
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Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi was born in Yazd, Iran in 1934. He took courses taught by Imam Khomeini in Qom while he also studied Qur'anic exegesis and the philosophies of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra with Allamah Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i.
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Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi was born in Yazd in 1935. After finishing his primary education, he began studying religious sciences in Shafi'iyya Seminary in Yazd under the influence of one of his relatives, Shaykh Ahmad Akhundi. He studied preliminary seminary courses in Yazd. Along with formal seminary courses, he also studied modern scien...
Political Activities before the Islamic Revolution
Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi was politically active in two periods: from 1963 to 1965, and from 1978 to 1979. His activities include the following: 1. He was a writer in Bi'that and Intiqam periodicals. The first issue of Bi'that was published in December 1963. Intiqam was also published by Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi since December 20, 1964 as the second secret periodical of students of the Islamic Seminary of Qom. It was published until October 7, 1965. Overall, eight volumes of Intiqam was published...
Scholarly Activities
1. In 1967, Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi joined the Haqqani Seminary at the request of Ayatollah Bihishti. At first, he was part of the school's administration, but later, he rested content with teaching Qur'anic exegesis, philosophy, and Islamic jurisprudence. Since 1974, there was a serious dispute between proponents and opponents of Ali Shari'ati in Haqqani Seminary. Ayatollah Misbah and a group of seminary students were opponents of Shari'ati, since they found his interpretations of Islam to be...
Dialogues and Debates
In 1981 when Marxist groups had increased their propagations and cultural activities, Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi participated a debate with Ehsan Tabari, Farrokh Negahdar, and Abdolkarim Soroush. In this debate, Misbah Yazdi and Soroush criticized Marxist views. The debate was broadcast on IRIB TV. Ayatollah Misbah continued to criticize Marxism, which cultivated in writing six volumes under Pasdari az sangarha-yi idi'uluzhik (protecting ideological trenches). The volumes consist of his critiques...
Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi wrote many books in different fields of the Islamic thought, in which he has introduced his intellectual system. The tenets of his worldview include a maximal interpretation of the religion, alterity with the Western culture, the rejection of the possibility of different readings of the religion, the authority of the religiou...
Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi's works are concerned with the exegesis of the Qur'an, Islamic philosophy, Islamic beliefs and Theology, ethics, and Islamic political thought. Many of his works are accessible online.
Jan 1, 2021 · Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi, professor in Islamic Seminary of Qom, Mujtahid, Quranic exegete and philosopher has passed away at 85 in holy city of Qom, Iran.
Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi. This text is a collection of 60 lessons on Islamic Theology. The topics are organized in logical order and are full of traditions and verses of the Holy Qur’an to support and clarify each subject.
In this book, Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi goes into the enlightening subject of self-development and acquiring spiritual perfection through the tool of self-knowledge and introspection. As the Holy Quran mentions (59:19), forgetting one's soul is a requisite for forsaking Allah (swt).
