Biography
Shaykh Khaansari was born
in Bid Aabaad, Isfahan, in 1917. His father was an eminent scholar in Isfahan. Khaansari
began his preliminary studies in Isfahan until the age of eighteen, when he migrated to
Najaf. In Najaf, he attended the lectures of Ayatollah Sayyid Abul Qaasim Al-Khou'i,
Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Baqir Zanjaani, and the late Shaykh Sadraa Al-Baadkoube'i. He
also attended the lectures of Ayatollah Al-`Uzma Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Gharawi Isfahani,
and the late Sayyid Abul Hasan Isfahani. After the demise of Ayatollah Shaykh Gharawi
Isfahani, Khaansari began attending the lectures of Ayatollah Shaykh Muhammad Ali
Kaazimayni, Sayyid Abul Qaasim Al-Khou'i, Sayyid Abdul Haadi Shiraazi, Shaykh Muhammad
Kaazim Shiraazi, Sayyid Jamal Al-Din Gulpaaygaani, Shaykh Mousaa Khaansari, and Sayyid
Muhsin Al-Hakeem.
In 1951, Khaansari returned to Iran and began attending Ayatollah
Boroujerdi's lectures. Later, he started teaching Fiqh (jurisprudence) and Usool
(principles) in the seminary. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Abul
Fazl Khaansari was appointed as Imam Khumayni's representative to Ustaan Markazi (the
province of Arak, Iran) and as congregational prayer leader.
*His works:
Books, treatises, articles, and other works of the above scholar are written in Arabic
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