Qadi Bohlool Bahjat Afandi

Qadi Bohlool Bahjat Afandi (1908/1909 – 1970/1971) was a jurist, historian, and Philosopher.

Biography

Bohlool Bahjat Afandi was a jurist, historian, and Philosopher of the 13th and 14th centuries. According to him, his lineage goes back to the famous Sahabi Abu Ayyub Ansari. Bahjat was born in 1288, in Zangi Zor, in the Karabakh region of Armenia. Bahjat traveled to different countries, including Istanbul, Egypt, Baghdad, Iran, and Bukhara. He was a free-thinking scholar; therefore, he returned from his previous religion, Hanafi, and converted to the Shafi'i religion. Ayatollah Shahab al-Din Marashi, a contemporary Shia taqlid authority (died 1990), met him in Hamedan and Tabriz, considered him capable in debates, and therefore, at Bahjat Afandi's request, Ayatollah Marashi permitted him to narrate from Shia books. He worked as a judge in Zangi Zor.

Bahjat Effendi died in 1971; however, according to some reports, he was murdered.

His teachers

• Sheikh Mohammad Ghazizadeh in intellectual sciences
• Sirajuddin Naqshbandi in Mysticism
• Qadi Mohammad Sadaat (from his father) in Sheikh Najibullah Zangi Zori, Jurisprudence

Books

• Tarikh Aale Muhammad, trans. Seyed Athar Hussain Rizvi (An analysis of the History of Aale Muhammad), CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013
• Mah Yom (One Hundred Days ), a report of the Battle of Siffin
• Hujr ibn Adi, a book on the martyrdom of Hujr ibn Adi

Articles

• An article on narration from famous scholars about the burning of the door of Lady Fatimah Zahra (SA)