Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari

Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari
Allameh Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari (15 August 1925 – 16 November 1998) was an Iranian scholar, philosopher, intellectual, and islamic theologist. Ja'fari was a Shia philosopher and thinker in the recent time. He was expert in various fields such as history, logic, metaphysics, philosophy, literature, mysticism, jurisprudence, and philosophy of science.
Biography
Mohammad-Taki Ja'fari was born on 1923 in Tabriz, Iran. He graduated from elementary studies in Tabriz and continued his education in the Talebieh Seminary. Mohammad-Taghi then went to Qom and Tehran Seminaries for benefiting from religious scholars of the time. Thereafter he left Iran for 11 years to attend the School of Theology in Najaf. He achieved his Ijtihad degree when he was 23 years old. Ja'fari returned to Iran and taught in Qom and Tehran.
Works
Interpretation and Criticism of Rumi's Masnavi (15 volumes)
Translation and Interpretation of the Nahj al-Balagha (27 volumes)
Pioneer Culture to the Rescue of Mankind
The Mystery of Life
The Conscience
Positive Mysticism
Imam Hossein's Prayers at the Arafat Desert (Arabic)
The Coordination between Science & Religion (Arabic)
The Conscience
Religion and Moral Ethics
Mabda' A'ala
From One Sea to Another (An Index to the Mathnavi, 4 volumes)
Three Poets – Hafiz, Sa'di and Nizami
An Analysis of Khayyam's Personality
An Interpretation, Review and Analysis of Rumi's Mathnavi
Rumi and Ideologies
What Makes Rumi's Words So Fascinating
The Relationship between Man and the Universe
Ideals of Life and the Ideal Life
Philosophy and Aim of Life
Man and Creation
Man in Elevating, Evolution Life
Man Seen in the Koran
Motion and change as seen in the koran
A Study and Critique of David Hume's Thoughts on Four Philosophical Issues
A Study and Critique of the Russell-Wyatt Dialog
A Study and Critique of Selected Thoughts of Bertrand Russell
A Study and Critique of The Adventures of Ideas
Human Rights from Islamic and Western Viewpoints
Islam's Political Philosophy
Mysticism and Gnostics
Positive Mysticism
A Legal and Jurisprudential Study of the Human Genome Project
Speculative (Systematic) Theology and Its Modern Forms
Fatalism and Free Will
The Philosophy of Religion
Jurisprudential Sources
Al-reza'a
Worship and Wisdom in Islamic Jurisprudence
Ta'avon –uddin val-elm
Nahayat-ol-edrak al-vaqe'ee bain-ol-phalsafat-ol-qadima va al-hadisa
A Study of the Philosophy of Science
Science and Religion in Reasonable Life
Recognition and Knowledge Seen in Science and the Koran
Al-amr Bain-ol-amrain
Fatalism and Free Will
The Philosophy of Religion
Imam Hossein's Prayers at the Arafat Desert
Imam Hossein, the Martyr of Human Pioneer Culture
A Complete Translation of the Nahj-ol-balaqeh
The Exploration of Thoughts (2 volumes)
In Presence of Wisdom
Reasonable Life
A Compilation of Articles
The Message of Wisdom
Pioneer Culture to the Rescue of Mankind
The Mystery of Life
A Plan for Cultural Revolution
Death
Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari died in London on 16 November 1998 and was buried in Mashhad in the vicinity of Imam Reza Shrine.
References
Iranian Shia scholars of Islam
Iranian Shia clerics
Iranian translators
20th-century Muslim theologians
People from Tabriz
1925 births
1998 deaths
20th-century translators
Recipients of the Order of Knowledge
20th-century Iranian philosophers
Burials in Mashhad
Rumi scholars