Sayyid Yahya Ja'fari
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| Birth | 1931-2 |
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| Death | 2020, Iran |
| Professors | Allama Tabataba'i • Ali Meshkini • Husayn Ali Montazeri • Naser Makarem Shirazi • Muhammad Ali Movahedi Kermani |
| Notable roles | Representative of the Guardian Jurist and Friday Prayer Leader of Kerman • Head of the Council of Seminaries of Kerman |
Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī (Persian: سید یحیی جعفری) (2020-1931) was the second Friday Prayer leader of Kerman in the Islamic Republic era. In 1980, after Muhammad Jawad Hujjati Kirmani,[1] he was appointed as the representative of the Guardian Jurist and Friday Prayer Leader by the order of Imam Khomeini.[2] He stepped down from his role as Friday prayer leader in 2017 due to advanced age and served as head of the Council of Seminaries of Kerman Province until his death.[3]
Ja'fari was one of the fighters against the Pahlavi regime and supporters of Imam Khomeini's movement in Kerman.[4] From 1962 until the Islamic Revolution of Iran (1979), he was active with speeches and meeting with exiled revolutionaries in Kerman.[5]
According to Ja'fari himself, his first meeting with Imam Khomeini was years before 1963 and during the lifetime of Ayatollah Burujirdi.[6] Beginning in 1962, he—along with Muhammad Jawad Bahunar—supported Imam Khomeini and urged people to follow him in religious emulation (taqlid).[7] In addition to public discourse and speaking, he also taught in high schools in Kerman,[8] and the Mosque where he led prayer had become a base for Kerman's revolutionaries.[9] Ja'fari was Imam Khomeini's representative in collecting religious dues before the Revolution.[10] According to SAVAK documents, his speeches from the mid-1340s SH (mid-1960s) until 1357/1979 in support of the Revolution were welcomed by the people.[11] Ja'fari was banned from discourse and leaving the country in 1350/1971-2 and was placed under strict SAVAK surveillance.[12] He was the speaker at the ceremony marking the fortieth day of the martyrs of the Tabriz Uprising in Nowruz 1357/1978 in Kerman.[13] It is said that he was injured along with a number of revolutionaries in the incident of the burning of the Jameh Mosque of Kerman by the Pahlavi regime.[14] This incident occurred in Mehr 1357/1978 when people had gathered in this mosque to mark the fortieth day of the martyrs of the Black Frieday.[15]
After the Islamic Revolution, Sayyid Yahya Ja'fari was active in responsibilities such as head of the political-ideological department of the police, head of the Red Crescent Society, and responsible for sending Kermani clerics and missionaries to the fronts.[16] Also, during his Friday prayer leadership in Kerman, he carried out many cultural and construction activities in this city with the cooperation of Qasim Sulaymani.[17]
Ja'fari, who was one of the Sayyids descending from Imam al-Husayn (a),[18] was born in 1931-2 in Kuhbanan, Kerman.[19] He learned thefoundation of religious sciences in Kerman from professors such as Muhammad Ali Movahedi Kermani and then went to the Seminary of Qom.[20] In Qom, he took courses in Fiqh and Principles from Ali Meshkini, Husayn Ali Montazeri, and Naser Makarem Shirazi and benefited from the exegesis lessons of Allama Tabataba'i.[21] He passed away in Kerman in 21 November 2020.[22]
Notes
- ↑ "Rivāyatī az zindigī wa sulūk-i Muḥammad Javād Ḥujjatī Kirmānī dar yik mustanad", ISNA.
- ↑ "Darbāra-yi Āyatullāh Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī", IRNA.
- ↑ "Darbāra-yi Āyatullāh Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī", IRNA.
- ↑ "Sayyidī ki hamīsha taḥt-i naẓar-i SAVAK būd!", Islamic Revolution Document Center.
- ↑ Markaz-i Asnād-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī, Āyatullāh Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī bi rivāyat-i asnād-i SAVAK, p. 251; "Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī", Hawzah.net.
- ↑ "Sālhā talāsh-i bī-waqfa-yi Āyatullāh Jaʿfarī dar faʿʿāliyathā-yi madhhabī - inqilābī", IQNA.
- ↑ "Sālhā talāsh-i bī-waqfa-yi Āyatullāh Jaʿfarī dar faʿʿāliyathā-yi madhhabī - inqilābī", IQNA.
- ↑ "Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī", Hawzah.net.
- ↑ "Sayyidī ki hamīsha taḥt-i naẓar-i SAVAK būd!", Islamic Revolution Document Center.
- ↑ "Sālhā talāsh-i bī-waqfa-yi Āyatullāh Jaʿfarī dar faʿʿāliyathā-yi madhhabī - inqilābī", IQNA.
- ↑ Markaz-i Asnād-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī, Āyatullāh Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī bi rivāyat-i asnād-i SAVAK, pp. 77–89; "Sayyidī ki hamīsha taḥt-i naẓar-i SAVAK būd!", Islamic Revolution Document Center.
- ↑ "Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī", Hawzah.net; "Sayyidī ki hamīsha taḥt-i naẓar-i SAVAK būd!", Islamic Revolution Document Center.
- ↑ Markaz-i Asnād-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī, Āyatullāh Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī bi rivāyat-i asnād-i SAVAK, p. 249.
- ↑ "Fājiʿa-yi bi ātash kashīdan-i Masjid-i Jāmiʿ-i Kirmān tawassuṭ-i rzhīm-i Pahlavī", Islamic Revolution Document Center.
- ↑ "Fājiʿa-yi bi ātash kashīdan-i Masjid-i Jāmiʿ-i Kirmān tawassuṭ-i rzhīm-i Pahlavī", Islamic Revolution Document Center.
- ↑ "Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī", Hawzah.net.
- ↑ "Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī", Hawzah.net.
- ↑ "Sālhā talāsh-i bī-waqfa-yi Āyatullāh Jaʿfarī dar faʿʿāliyathā-yi madhhabī - inqilābī", IQNA.
- ↑ "Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī", Hawzah.net.
- ↑ "Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī", Hawzah.net.
- ↑ "Sālhā talāsh-i bī-waqfa-yi Āyatullāh Jaʿfarī dar faʿʿāliyathā-yi madhhabī - inqilābī", IQNA.
- ↑ "Paykar-i Imām Jumʿa-yi pīshīn-i Kirmān tashyīʿ wa bi khāk-sipurda shud", IRNA.
References
- "Darbāra-yi Āyatullāh Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī". IRNA. Date of insertion: 3 Azar 1399 Sh. Date of access: 6 Azar 1404 Sh.
- "Fājiʿa-yi bi ātash kashīdan-i Masjid-i Jāmiʿ-i Kirmān tawassuṭ-i rzhīm-i Pahlavī". Islamic Revolution Document Center. Date of insertion: 25 Mehr 1401 Sh. Date of access: 10 Azar 1404 Sh.
- Markaz-i Asnād-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī. Āyatullāh Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī bi rivāyat-i asnād-i SAVAK. Tehran, Intishārāt-i Markaz-i Asnād-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī, 1396 Sh.
- "Paykar-i Imām Jumʿa-yi pīshīn-i Kirmān tashyīʿ wa bi khāk-sipurda shud". IRNA. Date of insertion: 3 Azar 1399 Sh. Date of access: 6 Azar 1404 Sh.
- "Rivāyatī az zindigī wa sulūk-i Muḥammad Javād Ḥujjatī Kirmānī dar yik mustanad". ISNA. Date of insertion: 23 Khordad 1403 Sh. Date of access: 7 Azar 1404 Sh.
- "Sālhā talāsh-i bī-waqfa-yi Āyatullāh Jaʿfarī dar faʿʿāliyathā-yi madhhabī - inqilābī". IQNA. Date of insertion: 2 Azar 1399 Sh. Date of access: 6 Azar 1404 Sh.
- "Sayyid Yaḥyā Jaʿfarī". Hawzah.net. Date of insertion: 2 Azar 1399 Sh. Date of access: 6 Azar 1404 Sh.
- "Sayyidī ki hamīsha taḥt-i naẓar-i SAVAK būd!". Islamic Revolution Document Center. Date of insertion: 1 Azar 1399 Sh. Date of access: 6 Azar 1404 Sh.