As religious scholars, members of the Mojabi family held various minbars in Qazvin throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The family also had considerable involvement in political and societal affairs in Qazvin and across Iran. During the late Qajar and Pahlavi eras, the Mojabi family pioneered the publishing houses and periodicals of Qazvin, a city famed for its political newspapers. Of these, "Ra’d-i-Qazvin" founded and edited by Ali Ra’d Mojabi, was the most long-standing of these periodicals, in print from 1933 to 1950 and was closed down on various occasions by Soviet forces during the occupation of northern Iran in the Second World War. During this period "Ra'd" was one of the most renowned periodicals throughout Iran.