Mirza Abutaleb Zanjani
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Mirzā Abutāleb Zanjānī (
Shia scholar
He was born on 10 December 1843, to an educated family in
Morteza Ansari, Sheikh Razi and Sayyid Hossein Kooh-kamari. He returned to Iran at the age of 40 and stayed in Tehran, where as a distinguished disciple of Koohkamari, became the centre of clerical circles.[1]
He spent most of his time on teaching his students and writing religious books.
He advocated Persian Constitutional Revolution, but later adhered to royalists.[1]
He died at the age of 69 on 16 March 1911, Tehran and was buried in Mashhad.
Zanjani was among the few scholars of
Thomas Malthus and Charles Darwin
, and used their views in his essays.
Arthur Henry Hardinge, the British ambassador to Iran, wrote about him:"As I have previously mentioned, the most intellectual and enlightened Shia scholar that I've met in Tehran was Mirza Abutaleb Zanjani with whom we usually had debates about religion and politics. I personally think that Mirza Abutaleb worked on the same aspiration for Islamic unity as Abdul Hamid II ... although he himself had less faith to these principals".
He married a daughter of Bahram Mirza son of Abbas Mirza and had 4 daughters. He is maternal grandfather of Reza Zanjani.
