Senior Iranian Cleric Allameh Hassanzdeh Amoli Passes Away
The cleric, who had been hospitalized on Saturday morning due to a lung-related illness, died later in day.
Born in 1929 in Larijan, a small town near the city of Amol north of Iran, he started studying Islamic sciences at the grand mosque of Amol.
In 1951, he left his hometown for Tehran to continue his studies with famous scholars like Mirza Mehdi Elahi Qomshei, Mirza Abolhassan Sha’arani, Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Amoli, and Sheikh Mohammad Hossein Fazel Toni.
In 1963, he settled in the holy city of Qom where he studied Islamic philosophy with Allameh Seyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaei and others.
Allameh Hassanzadeh Amoli spent the rest of his life teaching at the Islamic Seminary of Qom and writing numerous books on Islamic philosophy, theology, Hikmah, mysticism, and jurisprudence.
“Treatise on the Perfect human”, “Lectures on the Soul”, “Exegesis on Mulla Sadra's Asfar”, “Exegesis on Al Farabi's al Fosus”, “Treatise on Knowledge”, and “Unity from Hakim and Mystics' Perspective” are the titles of some of his works.
