Azizollah Khoshvaght



Azizollah Khoshvaght, also known as Ayatollah Khoshvaqt (or Khoshwaqt)  (1926 – 19 February 2013),  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.

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. His parents were from Zanjan. Khoshvaqt was a prominent scholar, Faqih  and a teacher of ethics.

Khoshvaght who was also well known as Aziz Khoshvaght, was also the Imam Jama'a of Imam Hassan-Mojtaba mosque in Tehran.

Azizollah Khoshvaght died at the age of 86, when he was in Mecca  on 19 February 2013.