Background
Mirza Mahdi was born in 1889 in Tehran. His Father, Mirza Jafar was the relatives of Hajj Mirza Muhammad Hasan Ashtiani Famous as the Little Mirza, one of the most great men of Knowledge in Tehran.
Mirza Mahdi was born in 1889 in Tehran. His Father, Mirza Jafar was the relatives of Hajj Mirza Muhammad Hasan Ashtiani Famous as the Little Mirza, one of the most great men of Knowledge in Tehran.
Mirza Mahdi Ashtiani passed his Infants and adolescence in Tehran. After he Learned the Preliminary courses, he participated in the sessions of Great He was more genius such that could read the Holy Quran completely when he was just 5 years old.
He learned mathematics form some famous scholars such as al-Shaykh "Abd al-Husayn Siybiwayh, Mirza Ghaffariyan Najm al-Dula, Mirza Jahanbakhsh Munajjim Burujirdi and Aqa Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Riyadi.
Mirza Abu l-hasan Jelveh Mirza hasan Kermanshahi Mir Shahab Neirizi Aqa Mir Shirazi Mirza Hashem Eshkevari Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Khorasani Ayatollah Mohammed Kazem Yazdi Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Firouz Abadi Aqa Zia Iraqi Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Hasan Isfahani Mirzaye Naini He taught in different places such as Marvi School, Sepahsalar School, and the school of Mirza Muhammad Khan Qazvini. Sayyed Jalal Addin Ashtiani Says that:" He taught twelve times the book of Healing of Avicenna, two Times the book of Tamhid First Rate (at Lloyd's) Qavaed and many times the book of Asfar of mulla Sadra.