Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Hossein Ali Tababataei Borujerdi was a leading Iranian Shia Marja' in Iran from approximately 1947 to his death in 1961.
19 Facts About Hossein Borujerdi
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Hossein Borujerdi's family traced its lineage 30 generations to Hassan ibn Ali.
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Hossein Borujerdi's father Sayyid Ali Tabataba'i was a religious scholar in Borujerd and his mother, Sayyidah Agha Beygum, was the daughter of Sayyid Mohammad Ali Tabataba'i.
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Hossein Borujerdi revived the hawza of Qom in 1945, which had waned after the death of its founder Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi in 1937.
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Hossein Borujerdi was praised by Morteza Motahhari for attempting to bridge the gap between Sunnis and Shiites.
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Hossein Borujerdi sent missionaries to spread Islam in Europe and the United States.
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Hossein Borujerdi established cordial relations with Mahmud Shaltut, the grand Shaykh of Al-Azhar University.
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Hossein Borujerdi was authorized as a Mujtahid by his teachers, which included Akhund Khurasani, Shaykh al-Shari'ah Isfahani and Sayyid Abu al-Qasim Dihkurdi.
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Hossein Borujerdi was given the permission of narrating Hadith by Akhund Khurasani, Shaykh al-Shari'ah Isfahani, Shaykh Muhammad Taqi Isfahani known as Aqa Najafi Isfahani, Sayyid Abu al-Qasim Dihkurdi, Agha Buzurg Tihrani and 'Alam al-Huda Malayiri.
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Hossein Borujerdi used a simple language in his lessons and avoided unnecessary extra discussions.
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Hossein Borujerdi studied jurisprudential verdicts of Shi'a and Sunni faqihs of the past.
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Hossein Borujerdi had a unique method in 'Ilm al-rijal by studying the chain of narrators of hadiths in the Four Books independently from narrations.
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Hossein Borujerdi is said to have generally remained aloof from politics and given the Shah his "tacit support," while the Shah did not follow his father's harsh anti-clericalism, and until Hossein Borujerdi's death occasionally visited the cleric.
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Hossein Borujerdi forbade Khomeini to take part in political activities, a ban which ended with Hossein Borujerdi's death.
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In 1955 Hossein Borujerdi issued a fatwa making Pepsi Cola illegal in Iran.
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Hossein Borujerdi had two sons and three daughters from his first wife, all but one of whom died in childhood.
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Hossein Borujerdi had two sons and two daughters from his second wife.
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Hossein Borujerdi studied the fiqahat of all the Islamic schools of thought, not just his own, along with the science of rijal.
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Hossein Borujerdi has had a strong influence on Islamic scholars like Morteza Motahhari and Hussein-Ali Montazeri.