Mohammad-Ali Behbahani

Aqa Mohammad-Ali Behbahani (1731-1801) was an Iranian Shia mojtahed, principally noted for his zealous hatred of Sufis.

Biography[edit]

Behbahani was born on 20 June 1731 in the shrine city of Karbala in the Baghdad vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (now Iraq) as the eldest son of the well-known mojtahed Mohammad-Baqer Behbahani, a native of Isfahan. He was brought up in Behbahan in southwest Iran.^[1]^[2]

References[edit]

^ Pourjavady, Reza (2023). "Iran and Afghanistan: Āqā Muḥammad ʿAlī Bihbahānī". In Thomas, David; Chesworth, Thomas A. (eds.). Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 20. Iran, Afghanistan and the Caucasus (1800-1914). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. pp. 69–71.
^ Algar, Hamid (1989). "BEHBAHĀNĪ, MOḤAMMAD-ʿALĪ". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume IV/1: Bāyju–Behruz. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-0-71009-124-6.

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[1] Pourjavady, Reza (2023). "Iran and Afghanistan: Āqā Muḥammad ʿAlī Bihbahānī". In Thomas, David; Chesworth, Thomas A. (eds.). Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 20. Iran, Afghanistan and the Caucasus (1800-1914). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. pp. 69–71.

[2] Algar, Hamid (1989). "BEHBAHĀNĪ, MOḤAMMAD-ʿALĪ". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume IV/1: Bāyju–Behruz. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-0-71009-124-6.

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