Mojabi Explained

The Mojabi Shirazi or Mojabi family (Persian: مجابی, in Persian pronounced as /mojaːbi/) is a prominent Iranian family of cultural significance from Qazvin, Iran.[1] Between 1908 and 1997, the family was associated with around 40 publications (comprising newspapers, magazines and pamphlets) in Iran.[2]

Family overview

As religious scholars, members of the Mojabi family held various minbars in Qazvin throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The family also had considerable involvement in political and societal affairs in Qazvin and across Iran. During the late Qajar and Pahlavi eras, the Mojabi family pioneered the publishing houses and periodicals of Qazvin, a city famed for its political newspapers. Of these, Ra’d-i-Qazvin founded and edited by Ali Ra’d Mojabi, was the most long-standing of these periodicals, in print from 1933 to 1950 and was closed down on various occasions by Soviet forces during the occupation of northern Iran in the Second World War.[3] During this period Ra'd was one of the most renowned periodicals throughout Iran.[4]

Another newspaper, Salah-i-Bashar, founded and edited by Naguib Mojabi, ran from 1924 to 1934. Hojatoleslam Naguib ran the weekly journal with the assistance of Mirza Abutorab Sheikholeslami and Mirza Hossein Khayal.[5] The most significant of the periodicals during the Pahlavi I (Rezā Shāh) era was the Bazpurs, which was in print for 12 years (1924-1936), owned and edited by Jafar Adib Mojabi. The focus of the Bazpurs was on societal issues. Other newspapers run by the Mojabi family included Nakhl-e Omid, Sarnevesht and Saadat Qazvin.

Origin

The family name derives from Ibrahim al-Mujab, more commonly known as Mojab. He was the son of Mohammad al-Abid and grandson of Musa al-Kadhim. Those related to Mojab are therefore known by the surname Mojabi or descendants of Mojab.[6] Mojab is buried in Imam Husayn Shrine, Karbala.[7]

Members of the family are directly descended from the 7th Shia Imam Musa Al-Kadhim who is the son of Ja'far al-Sadiq son of Muhammad Al-Baqir son of Ali Zayn al-Abidin son of Husayn ibn Ali son of Ali Bin Abi Talib and the son of Fatimah the daughter of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. Members of the family are called with the title Seyed which literally means Mister or Sir. As an honorific title, it denotes males accepted as the direct descendants of Muhammad.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: بازخوانی زندگی سیاسی و اجتماعی مرحوم دكتر شمس الدین مجابی . goodbook.blogfa.com . 2014-04-05 . 2014-04-05.
  2. Book: Hamidi. Mohammad Reza. تاريخ مطبوعات قزوين (History of Qazvin Press). 2001.
  3. Haddad Adel, Gholamali; Elmi, Mohammad Jafar and Taromi-Rad, Hassan eds. Periodicals of the Muslim World: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. EWI Press, 2012, p. 84.
  4. Web site: ۵- هفته نامۀ "رعد قزوین" . Hassan Shakibzade . 2014-07-12.
  5. Web site: Hassan Shakibzade. ۹- هفته نامۀ "صلاح بشر" . shakibzade.com . 2014-05-27.
  6. Web site: خاندان . goodbook.blogfa.com . 2014-04-05 . 2014-04-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140226130945/http://www.seymoj.com/pages/AboutMojab.aspx . 2014-02-26 . dead .
  7. Web site: History of Kerbala province and most significant libraries and religious schools . Imam Hussein Holy Shrine . 2012-11-01 . 2014-04-05.
  8. Web site: حجه الاسلام حاج سید جعفر ادیب مجابی قزوینی (سرسلسله خاندان) . ArtQazvin.ir. 2014-04-05.
  9. Web site: حاج سید جعفر ادیب مجابی . IRIB. 2014-04-05.
  10. Web site: Javad Mojabi - Iranian Writer & Poet . Caroun.com . 2014-04-05 . 2014-04-05.
  11. News: Iran allots $2.4m to restore overseas cultural heritage sites. Tehran Times. 15 May 2017.
  12. Web site: مجابی به سمت معاون توسعه مدیریت، حقوقی و امور مجلس محیط زیست منصوب شد . Fars News . 2014-04-05.
  13. Web site: Puyan Mojabi . umanitoba.ca . 2014-04-05 . 2014-04-05.
  14. Web site: Shahrzad Mojab . University of Toronto OISE . 2014-04-05 . 2014-04-05.
  15. Web site: گفتگو با دکتر حسین میثمی نویسنده کتاب "موسیقی کلاسیک در قزوین" . IRICAP.com . 2014-04-16.
  16. Web site: Zohreh Mojabi . IMDB . 2014-04-05 . 2014-04-05.