Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani was an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja'.
Biography
Ayatullah Mohammad-Taqi was born on 24 August 1916 in the Fouman, Gilan province in the north of Iran. Mohammad's mother died when he was at an early age and he lived with his father. Bahjat's father sold cookies to gain as income. He started his primary education from Fouman. At the age 14, he went to Karbala then Najaf, Iraq to continue his advanced education. After returning to Iran on 1945, he resided in Qom and at the Qom Seminary, Mohammad-Taqi taught jurisprudence and theology.
Teachers
While he lived in Najaf, he was a student of Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani, Shaikh Muhammad Kadhim Shirazi, Mirza Hussein Naini, Agha Zia Addin Araghi, and Shaikh Muhammad Hussain al-Gharawi. Also, Ali Tabatabaei was his teacher in spirituality and gnosticism. In Qom, he attended the class of Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi.
Students
He had many students including: Morteza Motahhari, Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani, Mohammad Yazdi, Ahmad Azari Qomi, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Mahdi Hosseini Rohani, Azizollah Khoshvaght, Syed shaji mukhtar hyderabadi, and Zaynolabideen Ghorbani.
Legacy
He started teaching Kharij al-Fiqh and the Usool since early 1960 and served approximately 50 years in teaching theological subjects at his house. He composed poems of praise and eulogy for the Ahl al-Bayt, especially Imam Al-Husayn, which he had originally written in Persian. He left behind a large number of compilations, including: Kitab-e Salaat, Jama'e al-Masa’el, Zakhirah al-Ebaad Leyawm al-Maa`d, Tuzih al-Masaa'il, and Manaasek-e Hajj.
Death
On 17 May 2009, aged 92 years, Bahjat died in Qom and was buried in the Fatima Masumeh Shrine.