Background
He was born in Mashhad, Iran. He is the son of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Tabatabaei Qomi (1865-1947) and the younger brother of Grand Ayatollah Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi (1912-2007).
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He was born in Mashhad, Iran. He is the son of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Tabatabaei Qomi (1865-1947) and the younger brother of Grand Ayatollah Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi (1912-2007).
In 1936 he moved to Iraq and has studied in seminaries of Karbala and then Najaf under Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hadi Milani, Abdol Hadi Shirazi, Hossein Heli, Mohammad Kazem Shirazi, Mohammad Ali Kazemayni Broujerdi, and specially Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei.
He, together with Ali al-Sistani and Mirza Ali Falsafi, are the only three people that Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei gave them a written statement for confirmation of their Ijtihad. He obtained his Ijtihad in 1965 in Najaf. Then he starts teaching in the Seminary of Najaf until 1979, when he moved back to Iran and reside in Qom.
In Qom, he has continued teaching in the Seminary of Qom until now.
He does not like to open a personal website. Some of his Islamic views are mentioned in Responses ideological (ردود عقائدية) website.
He in one of the Independent Marja and does not like to interfere in politics. He is among those Maraji that have not accept to meet Ali Khamenei in September 2010.