Mojtaba Tehrani

{{Short description|Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1933-2013)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Expand language|langcode=fa|name=مجتبی تهرانی|topic=bio}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Grand Ayatollah | name = Mojtaba Tehrani | native_name = مجتبي تهراني | native_name_lang = fa | other_names = | image = Mojtaba Tehrani.jpg | image_size = | birth_date = {{birth date|1933|4|4|df=yes}} | birth_place = Tehran, Iran | death_date = {{death date and age|2013|1|1|1933|4|4|df=yes}} | death_place = Tehran, Iran | website = {{URL|https://www.mojtabatehrani.ir}} }}

Grand Ayatollah '''Agha Mojtaba Tehrani''' (Persian: مجتبي تهراني) (4 April 1933 – 1 January 2013) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja' taqlid, which is described as "a high-ranking Shia cleric who is regarded as a source of emulation".<ref>{{cite news| title =Ayatollah Mojtaba Tehrani laid to rest| newspaper =Tehran Times| location =Tehran| date =4 January 2013| url =http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/104595-ayatollah-mojtaba-tehrani-laid-to-rest| access-date =17 February 2013| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130108170047/http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/104595-ayatollah-mojtaba-tehrani-laid-to-rest| archive-date =8 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ayatollah Mojtaba Tehrani {{!}}{{!}} Imam Reza (A.S.) Network |url=https://www.imamreza.net/old/eng/imamreza.php?id=11485 |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=www.imamreza.net}}</ref>

== Biography == Tehrani studied at the Islamic seminary in Qum under the future Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and he wrote a personal Resalah, a legal manual of edicts on Islamic law. He was "imam of one of Tehran's largest and most important mosques".<ref>{{cite book | last =Muravchik | first =Joshua | author-link =Joshua Muravchik | title =The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East | publisher =ReadHowYouWant.com | date =2010 | pages =146 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=vQZ-Qv4mXUwC&pg=PA146 | isbn =9781458770295 }}</ref> Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran attended his funeral procession.<ref>{{cite news| title =Leader attends funeral procession of Grand Ayatollah Agha Mojtaba Tehrani| publisher =IRIB World Service| location =Tehran| date =3 January 2013| url =http://english.irib.ir/news/political4/item/104458-leader-attends-funeral-procession-of-grand-ayatollah-agha-mojtaba-tehrani| access-date =17 February 2013| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://archive.today/20130413002500/http://english.irib.ir/news/political4/item/104458-leader-attends-funeral-procession-of-grand-ayatollah-agha-mojtaba-tehrani| archive-date =13 April 2013}}</ref>

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==External links== {{Commons category|Mojtaba Tehrani}} *[http://www.mojtabatehrani.ir/ Official website (in Farsi)] *[http://www.mojtabatehrani.ir/resale/masael Mojtaba Tehrani's Resalah (in Persian)]

==See also== *List of deceased maraji

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tehrani, Mojtaba}} Category:Iranian grand ayatollahs Category:Iranian Islamists Category:Shia Islamists Category:1933 births Category:2013 deaths Category:Religious leaders from Tehran Category:Iranian people of Kurdish descent Category:Burials at Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine Category:Marja'