Native Name: | Persian: سید محمدعلی قاضی طباطبایی |
Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei | |
Order: | Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan and Imam Jumu'ah of Tabriz |
Term Start: | July 1979 |
Term End: | 2 November 1979 |
Predecessor: | None (office created) |
Successor: | Mir Asadollah Madani |
Birth Date: | 1914 |
Birth Place: | Tabriz, Iran |
Death Date: | 2 November 1979 |
Death Place: | Tabriz, Iran |
Seyid Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei (Persian: سید محمدعلی قاضی طباطبایی; 1914 – 1979) was an Iranian politician, Shiite cleric, first imam Jumu'ah for Tabriz and Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan. He was born in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan. He was a member of the Muslim People's Republic Party in Tabriz.[1] He was assassinated by People's Mujahedin of Iran, when praying in Tabriz.[2] Qazi Tabatabaei in the Iranian political literature named him the first martyr of mihrab.[3]