Shah_Abdol-Azim_Shrine Knowpia

Shah Abdolazim (Abdol-Azim) Shrine
شاه عبدالعظیم
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

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.

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 edit

Abdol 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 edit

Courtyard and iwan portal

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]

Inside Shrine

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

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.

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