The Shāh Abdol-Azīm Shrine (Persian: شاه عبدالعظیم), also known as Shabdolazim,[1][2][3] located in Rey, Iran, contains the tomb of ‘Abdul ‘Adhīm ibn ‘Abdillāh al-Hasanī[4] (aka Shah Abdol Azim). Shah Abdol Azim was a fifth generation descendant of Hasan ibn ‘Alī[4] and a companion of Muhammad al-Taqī.[4] He was entombed here after his death in the 9th century.
| Shah Abdolazim (Abdol-Azim) Shrine شاه عبدالعظیم | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Shia Islam |
| Province | Tehran Province |
| Location | |
| Location | Rey, Iran |
| Municipality | Ray County |
  Shown within Iran | |
| Geographic coordinates | 35°35′08″N 51°26′07″E / 35.58556°N 51.43528°E |
| Architecture | |
| Type | Mosque |
| Completed | 9th century |
Adjacent to the shrine, within the complex, include the mausolea of Imamzadeh Tahir (son of the fourth Shia Imam Sajjad) and Imamzadeh Hamzeh (brother of the eighth Twelver Imām - Imām Reza).
Background
editAbdol Azim migrated to Rayy out of persecution[4] and subsequently died there. A piece of paper was found in his pocket outlining his ancestry as being: ‘Abdul ‘Adhīm son of ‘Abdillāh son of ‘Alī son of Hasan son of Zayd son of Hasan ibn ‘Alī.[4] Shah Abdol Azim was sent to Rayy (modern-day Tehran) by Imam Reza.
History and design
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Ibn Qūlawayh al-Qummī (d. 978 CE) "includes the shrine in his Kāmil al-Ziyārāt, one of the earliest pilgrimage guides for the Shiʿa, which suggests that the tomb of ʿAbd al-Aẓīm was already of some importance by the tenth century."[5][6] The tomb of Abdol-Azim had also come under the patronage of Sunni rulers at times, a notable example being the mausoleum constructed over Abdol-Azim's tomb in the 1090s CE by orders of the Seljuk vizier Majd al-Mulk Asʿad b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā.[7][8][9][10]
This door has an inscription in Tulth calligraphy.
Notable burials
edit- Abdol-Azim al-Hassani (789–866) – medieval scholar
- Morteza Razi (fa) (11th cent.) – medieval scholar
- Abu al-Futuh al-Razi (1087–1157) – medieval scholar
- Ahmad Monshi Qomi (1547–1607) – scholar
- Abolghasem Ghaem-Magham Farahani (1779–1835) – prime minister (1834–35)
- Mohammad-Sharif Khan Mafi (fa) (d. 1847) – politician
- Qaani Shirazi (1808–1854) – poet
- Saadat-Ali Shah (fa) (d. 1876) – leader of Nematullahi Gonabadi Sufi order
- Abbas-Ali Dadashbeig (fa) (1814–1878) – military officer and father of Reza Shah
- Mohammad Khan Majd ol-Molk Sinaki (fa) (1809–1881) – politician
- Bahram Mirza Moezz od-Dowleh (1806–1882) – Qajar prince and politician
- Ali Kani (1805–1888) – cleric
- Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831–1896) – Shahanshah of Persia (1848–96)
- Mohammad-Ali Sadr ol-Mamalek (fa) (d. 1902) – politician
- Vajihollah Mirza (az) (1854–1905) – Qajar prince and politician
- Sattar Khan (1866–1914) – a leader of Persian Constitutional Revolution
- Soltan Hossein Mirza Jalal od-Dowleh (fa) (1868–1914) – Qajar prince and politician
- Nour-Ali Shah II (fa) (1867–1918) – leader of Nematullahi Gonabadi Sufi order
- Abolhassan Mirza (az) (1847–1919) – Qajar prince and politician
- Mohammad Tabatabai (1842–1920) – cleric a leader of Persian Constitutional Revolution
- Malek-Mansour Mirza Sho'a' os-Saltaneh (1880–1920) – Qajar prince
- Mohammad Khiabani (1880–1920) – politician
- Abolqassem Naser ol-Molk (1866–1927) – politician and regent of Persia (1911–14)
- Ahmad Bader Nasir od-Dowleh (fa) (1870–1930) – politician
- Raf'at Semnani (fa) (1882–1931) – poet
- Mohammad-Hossein Nadoushani (fa) (1864–1932) – politician
- Ali-Mardan Khan (fa) (1892–1934) – chief of Bakhtiari tribe
- Banoo Ozma Eftekhar od-Dowleh (fa) (1857–1935) – Qajar princess
- Nezameddin Hekmat Moshar od-Dowleh (fa) (1883–1936) – politician
- Abdollah Haeri Rahmat-Ali Shah (fa) (1862–1937) – Sufi leader
- Mohammad Aghazadeh Khorasani (1877–1937) – cleric
- Firouz Mirza Nostrat od-Dowleh (1889–1938) – Qajar prince and politician
- Abdol-Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma (1852–1939) – Qajar prince and politician
- Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944) – chief of Persian Cossack Brigade (1920–21), prime minister (1923–24) and Shahanshah of Iran (1925–41) (Reza Shah's mausoleum)
- Gholamhossein Rahnama (fa) (1882–1946) – scholar
- Sadr-ol-Eslam Khoei (fa) (1887–1948) – scholar
- Mohammad Qazvini (1877–1949) – scholar
- Esmail Merat (1893–1949) – politician
- Abdollah Mostowfi (fa) (1878–1950) – politician
- Mostafa Adl (1882–1950) – politician
- Haj-Ali Razmara (1901–1951) – prime minister (1950–51)
- Moahammad Mazaher (fa) (1875–1954) – politician
- Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1922–1954) – Pahlavi prince and son of Reza Shah
- Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani (1896–1956) – scholar
- Ali Soheili (1896–1958) – prime minister (1942, 1943–44)
- Mohammad-Sadegh Tabatabaei (1881–1961) – politician
- Abolghasem Kashani (1882–1962) – cleric and politician
- Fazlollah Zahedi (1892–1963) – army general and prime minister (1953–55)
- Tayyeb Haj-Rezaei (fa) (1911–1963) – political activist
- Abdol-Azim Gharib (ru) (1879–1965) – scholar
- Nezam-Vafa Arani (fa) (1887–1965) – poet
- Hassan-Ali Mansur (1923–1965) – prime minister (1964–65)
- Ziaeddin Tabatabaei (1889–1969) – journalist and prime minister (1921)
- Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (1897–1970) – scholar
- Ahmad Matin-Daftari (1897–1971) – prime minister (1939–40)
- Mohammad-Ali Emam-Shoushtari (1902–1972) – scholar
- Davoud Maghami (fa) (1938–1972) – politician
- Mohammad-Kazem Assar (fa) (1884–1975) – scholar
- Ahmad Ashtiani (1882–1975) – cleric
- Hajj Khazen Ol-Molk (1831–1901) – merchant, scholar
- Mohammad-Amir Khatami (1920–1975) – commander in chief of IIAF (1958–75)
- Ali-Asghar Hekmat (1892–1980) – politician
- Soleiman Behboudi (fa) (1896–1981) – politician
- Nasrollah Falsafi (fa) (1901–1981) – scholar
- Reza Mafi (fa) (1943–1982) – calligrapher
- Hassan Nayyerzadeh (fa) (1928–1983) – scholar
- Karim Amiri Firuzkouhi (1910–1984) – painter
- Mohammad-Ali Hedayati (fa) (1910–1986) – politician
- Amanollah Ardalan Ezz-ol-Mamalek (fa) (1884–1987) – politician
- Mehdi Soheili (fa) (1924–1987) – poet
- Hossein Lankarani (fa) (1889–1989) – politician
- Shamseddin Jazayeri (fa) (1913–1990) – politician
- Mohammad Taghi-Falsafi (1908–1998) – cleric
- Abdol-Karim Haghshenas (1919–2007) – cleric
- Abolghasem Gorji (fa) (1923–2010) – scholar
- Mohammad-Ali Taraghijah (1943–2010) – painter
- Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan (1979–2012) – scholar
- Azizollah Khoshvaght (1926–2013) – cleric
- Mojtaba Tehrani (1937–2013) – cleric
- Sadegh Tirafkan (1965–2013) – artist
- Vali Akbar (fa) (1970–2013) – wrestler
- Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931–2014) – cleric and prime minister (1981)
- Parviz Moayyed-Ahd (fa) (1929–2016) – scholar
- Mohammad-Taghi Nourbakhsh (fa) (1962–2018) – scholar
- Mohammad-Ali Shahidi (1949–2020) – cleric and politician
- Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur (1947–2021) – cleric and politician
- Seyyed Mohammad Ziaabadi (1928–2021) – cleric
- Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (1964-2024) - foreign minister[11]
See also
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine.
References
edit- ^ Abdol Azim Hasani iribnews.ir
- ^ Shrine of Shah Abdol-Azim aparat.com
- ^ Shah Abd al-Azim mashreghnews.ir
- ^ a b c d e al-Qummi, Ja'far ibn Qūlawayh (2008). "107". Kāmil al-Ziyārāt. trans. Sayyid Mohsen al-Husaini al-Mīlāni. Shiabooks.ca Press. p. 658.
- ^ Ibn Qūlawayh al-Qummī, Kāmil al-Ziyārāt (Beirut, 1418/1997), pp. 536–537
- ^ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17407/1/SI_108_01_1-15.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ ʿAbd al-Jalīl b. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qazwīnī (fl. 1189), Kitāb al-Naqḍ (Tehran, 1371/1952), p. 220
- ^ W. Barthold, An Historical Geography of Iran (Princeton, 1984), p. 127
- ^ Sheila Blair, The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Tran-soxania (Leiden, 1992), p. 185
- ^ Leisten, Architektur für Tote, pp. 240–241.
- ^ Gritten, David (23 May 2024). "Iran buries late president at shrine in home city of Mashhad". BBC News. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
Further reading
edit- Kondo, Nobuaki (2018). "State and Shrine in Iran: Waqf Administration of the Shah ͑ Abd al-͑ Azim Shrine under the Qajars". In Miura, Toru (ed.). Comparative Study of the Waqf from the East: Dynamism of Norm and Practice in Religious and Familial Donations. Tokyo. pp. 1–25.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Kondo, Nobuaki The Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAzim Shrine and its Vaqf under the Safavids.[1]