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Iranian Ayatollah (1926-2013) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Azizollah Khoshvaght (Persian: عزیزالله خوشوقت), also known as Ayatollah Khoshvaqt (or Khoshwaqt)[8][9][10] (1926 – 19 February 2013),[1][2][7] was a contemporary philosopher, mystic, theologian, and faqih. He was a student of Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi and Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini. He was the second child of the family, went to seminary after passing high-school, and went to Qom after educating for five years in Lorzadeh mosque in Tehran.[citation needed]
Khoshvaght returned to Tehran after the end of his seminary education, and got married at the age of 33, resulting in 2 sons and 4 daughters.[11][12] His parents were from Zanjan.[13][14] Khoshvaqt was a prominent scholar,[15][16] Faqih[17][18] and a teacher of ethics.[19][20]
Khoshvaght who was also well known as Aziz Khoshvaght,[21][22] was also the Imam Jama'a of Imam Hassan-Mojtaba mosque in Tehran.[23][24]
Azizollah Khoshvaght died at the age of 86,[25][26] when he was in Mecca[27][28] on 19 February 2013.[29]
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