Education
Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi was born in 1923/24 and studied in Isfahan with Ayatollah Rahim Arbab and Ayatollah Haj Shaikh Mohammad Hasan Alem Najafabadi.
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Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi was born in 1923/24 and studied in Isfahan with Ayatollah Rahim Arbab and Ayatollah Haj Shaikh Mohammad Hasan Alem Najafabadi.
The Special Court for the Clergy had ordered that he do not teach and receive students. His writings were censored. Later he continued his studies in Qom with Ayatollah Alameh Tabatabai and Ayatollah Boroujerdi.
His most outstanding work is Shahid-e Javid (The Eternal Martyr), which he started to conceive in 1961.
lieutenant radically reinterpreted early Shii history. Despite the author"s house arrest, it is in its fifth printing in Iran.
Many books have been published in response to it, including by such distinguished ulama as Ayatollah Motahari (d 1979) and Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani (d 1993). The article was banned by the Special Court for the Clergy.
He died in Tehran in 2006.