Ibrahim Amini
Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini (30 June 1925 – 24 April 2020) was an Iranian jurist, writer, and politician.
Biography
Ibrahim Amini son of Hussein, was born in Najafabad, Isfahan Province, in 1925. His father died when he was six years old. For the first six years of his schooling, Ayatollah Amini studied in one of the non-government night schools until the sixth grade. In April 1942, Ayatollah Amini came to the seminary of Qom to study religious sciences, staying there for three months, and during this period he attended the ethics course of Imam Khomeini. For the summer vacations, Amini returned to Najafabad and had to continue his studies at the Isfahan Seminary itself. Initially, Amini joined the Nourish school, later he moved to Kasegaran school and after that, studied at the Jaad'deh Bozor school.
After studying for six years in Isfahan, Ayatollah Amini, in the year 1947, went back to the seminary of Qom to continue his studies in jurisprudence, principles of Islam, and philosophy as well as benefit from the classes of his teachers such as Ayatollah Marashi, Ayatollah Golpayegani and Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hussain Tabatabai while also attending the external classes of Ayatollah Borujerdi and Imam Khomeini.
Career
- Member of Expediency Discernment Council, (1997-2020)
- Member of Council of Revision, (1989)
Academic Activities
- Member of Board of Trustees, Imam Sadiq University
- Member of Board of Trustees, World Assembly of Islamic Sciences
- Member of Community of Teachers, Qom Seminary
Books
- Principles of the Shi’ite Creed (trans. Ali Reza’i), Al-Buraq, (2012)
- Knowing God (trans. Sayyid Athar Husayn S.H. Rizvi), Al-Buraq, (2011)
- Imamate and the Imam (trans. Hamideh Elahinia), Al-Buraq, (2011)
- Al-Imam al-Mahdi: The Just Leader of Humanity (trans. Abdulaziz Sachedina), Al-Buraq, (1999)
- Self Building: An Islamic Guide for Spiritual Migration Towards God (trans. Syed Hussain Alamdar), Ansariyan Publications - Qom, (1997)