Biography
He was born in 1933 in one of the villages of Qa'im Sharh. His father, the late Mulla
Rahmatullah, was one of the eminent and reliable scholars of that region. At the age of
five he entered the Sadr school in the province of Babul. After learning the Holy Quran
and some religious and history books, he learned etymology and logic. Upon finishing
that he travelled to Qom, where he took up residence in Madrasah Fayziyyah for 9 months
At the beginning of the year of 1954 he travelled to Mashhad and it is there that he
learned the advanced texts of the higher stage and some other texts of Kharij in Usool
under well-known scholars in the Hawzah of Mashhad. There he sat under scholars such
as Ayatullah Haj Shaykh Hashim Qazwini.
In 1960 Shaykh Mazandarani returned again to Qom, where he benefitted from great
scholars such as Haj Husayn Boroujerdi, Imam Khumayni, Haj Mirza Hashim Amuli,
Sayyid Muhammad Reza Gulpaygani, Haj Sayyid Muhammad Muhaqqiq Damad, and Haj
Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i.
Since 1973 Shaykh Isma`il Salehi Mazandarani has been teaching the Sutouh stage.
Presently he is teaching the Kahrij stage in Fiqh and Usool in the Hawzah of Qom.
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