# Mojtaba Tehrani

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{{Short description|Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1933-2013)}}
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| honorific_prefix   = Grand [Ayatollah](/source/Ayatollah)
| name               = Mojtaba Tehrani
| native_name        = مجتبي تهراني
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| birth_date         = {{birth date|1933|4|4|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [Tehran](/source/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}}
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[Grand Ayatollah](/source/Grand_Ayatollah) '''Agha Mojtaba Tehrani''' (Persian: مجتبي تهراني) (4 April 1933 – 1 January 2013) was an [Iranian](/source/Iranian_peoples) [Twelver](/source/Twelver) [Shi'a](/source/Shi'a) [Marja' taqlid](/source/Marja'), 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](/source/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](/source/Qum) under the future [Grand Ayatollah](/source/Grand_Ayatollah) [Ruhollah Khomeini](/source/Ruhollah_Khomeini), and he wrote a personal [Resalah](/source/Risalah_(fiqh)), 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](/source/Ali_Khamenei), the [Supreme Leader of Iran](/source/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](/source/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>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[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](/source/List_of_deceased_maraji)

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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'

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