Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad-Taqi Morvarid (Persian: {{nq|محمد تقى مرواريد; 1921 – 22 October 2012) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician.[1] [2] [3]
| Native Name: | Persian: شيخ محمد تقى مرواريد | ||||||
| Birth Date: | 1921 | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Mashhad, Iran | ||||||
| Muhammad-Taqi Morvarid | |||||||
| Death Place: | Ilam, Iran | ||||||
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| Honorific Prefix: | Ayatollah Sheikh | ||||||
| Constituency: | Ilam Province | ||||||
| Majority: | 367,496 (99.66%) | ||||||
| Order: | Member of Assembly of Experts | ||||||
| Termstart: | 15 December 1982 | ||||||
| Termend: | 30 June 1990 | ||||||
| Children: | Muhammad-Reza Morvarid | ||||||
He was a member of the first Assembly of Experts representing the Ilam Province electorate. Morvarid won with 367,496 votes, a majority of 99.66%.[4]
Morvarid was born in Mashhad to the clerical Morvarid family, his father was Sheikh Ali Morvarid, son of Sheikh Ali-Akbar Morvarid. His mother was Halima Qodrati, daughter of Mulla Ali Qodrati. His brother, Ali-Asghar Morvarid was a prominent cleric and author.[5] His cousin Sheikh Hasanali Morvarid was a renowned religious scholar. His great ancestor was renowned laureate and calligrapher Shihab al-Din Abdullah Morvarid (d. 1514).[6]
He carried out his primary seminary studies in Mashhad, under his grandfather Sheikh Ali-Akbar, and Sheikhs Hashim and Mujtaba Qazwini. He then travelled to Najaf and studied under Sayyid Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari. He also travelled to Qom to continue his advanced seminary studies under Muhaqiq al-Damad, Sayyid Hossein Borujerdi, Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn Tabatabaei, Sheikh Wahid Khursani, Sheikh Husayn-Ali Montazeri, Mirza Jawad Tabrizi and Sheikh Ali Meshkini.[7]
In November 1948, he began to deliver sermons across different cities in Iran.
Morvardi was married and had three sons. His son Muhammad-Reza Morvardi was the governor of Ilam in 2013–2017.[8]