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Alireza Feyz

Alireza Feyz (1925 – March 3, 2019) was an Iranian author, researcher of Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic philosophy, professor at the University of Tehran and jurist.

Birth

Alireza Feyz, son of Ayatollah Mirza Mohammad Feyz and descendant of Mohsen Fayz Kashani, was born on 1925 in Qom, Iran.

Education

From the age of five to seven, Alireza Feyz went to a local Maktabkhaneh in Qom to learn primary concept of Islamic studies. Then he studied in Mohammadieh Elementary and High School in Qom and got his diploma there. In addition to studying in high school, he studied in the Qom Seminary and gained knowledge from several professors. From 1938 to 1953 he studied advanced concepts of Islamic jurisprudence and principles for 15 years in Qom Seminary and Hawza Najaf. He also studied Islamic philosophy with master Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai. In 1950, with the permission of eminent scholars such as Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Mohaqeq Damad and Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Khansari, he reached the level of ijtihad. In the meantime, he taught at some levels of Arabic literature, logic, Islamic jurisprudence, and Principles of Islamic jurisprudence in addition to his studies. In the late 1950s he came to Tehran and entered University of Tehran to study Islamic philosophy there. In 1953, he completed his bachelor's degree in Islamic philosophy and began teaching again in the Qom Seminary. With the opening of the doctoral course in Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies of the University of Tehran, he was one of the first students of this course in the field of philosophy. He continued his education in this field until doctorate degree. Then he wrote his doctoral dissertation entitled "Critique of Aristotle's logic" and obtained his PhD in Islamic philosophy from Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies of the University of Tehran in 1963.

Career

From 1957, when he was a PhD course student, he taught Principles of Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic jurisprudence at the Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies in University of Tehran, and finally reached the rank of full professor. For almost 20 years, he was the director of the Department of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law in University of Tehran. He continued his scientific activity with universities for about 35 years. In 1981, he was praised by Ali Khamenei then President of Iran as an exemplary professor, and in 1991, as a distinguished professor at the University of Tehran, he received a plaque of honor from Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani then President of Iran. In 2003 he was selected as a permanent figure at Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame in the field of Islamic jurisprudence and law.

During Iranian Cultural Revolution, he was sent to the officer's college and was in charge of teaching Islamic criminal jurisprudence, reviewing books and textbooks in that college.

With the start of the Dehkhoda Dictionary project, he collaborated for 12 years in preparing 14 volumes of the dictionaries.

These are some of his other activities: member of Academy of Sciences of Iran, member of The Organization for Researching and Composing University textbooks in the Humanities, member of The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, collaboration with University of Islamic Denominations, Representative of the Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies in the Committee for the Promotion of Professors of the University of Tehran, collaboration with Tehran School of Law and Political Science, collaboration with Tarbiat Modares University, collaboration with University of Judicial Sciences and Administrative Services, collaboration with Islamic Azad University.

He retired from the University of Tehran in 2001.

Bibliography

Books

  • Basis of jurisprudence and principles (title in ), in Persian language, 1984
  • Islamic General Criminal Law (title in ), in Persian language, 1984
  • Comparison and Application in Islamic Public Criminal Law (title in ), in Persian language, 1985
  • Application in the general criminal law of Islam (title in ), in Persian language, 1986
  • Translation of Lam'eh book (title in ), in Persian language, Translation, 1987
  • Basis of jurisprudence and principles include some of the issues of those two sciences (title in ), in Persian language, 1990
  • The Wergild (title in ), in Persian language, Translation, 1993
  • A discussion about obstruction (title in ), in Persian language, 1994
  • Ethics lessons (title in ), in Persian language, Translation, 1997
  • Characteristics of ijtihad and dynamic jurisprudence (title in ), in Persian language, 2003
  • Jurisprudential opinions of Mullah Mohsen Feyz Kashani (title in ), in Persian language, 2008
  • Legal Thoughts of Custom and Ijtihad (title in ), in Persian language, 2009
  • Exclusive (private) criminal law of Islam (title in ), in Persian language
  • A critical commentary on the law of retribution, corrections, reprimand and wergilds (title in ), in Persian language
  • Dictionary of Terms of Principles of Jurisprudence (title in ), in Persian language
  • Critique of Aristotle's logic (title in ), in Persian language
  • Ijtihad and Taqlid (title in ), in Persian language
  • Role of custom and manners in ijtihad (title in ), in Persian language
  • Components and consensus and community of command and prohibition (title in ), in Persian language
  • The unity is the reason of Shiite wisdom and the interests of the Sunni messengers (title in ), in Persian language

Articles

  • Every year when the month of Muharram arrives (title in ), in Persian language, 1947
  • The only important philosophy of Zakat and Khums (title in ), in Persian language, 1947
  • Around human (title in ), in Persian language, 1948
  • Battle in the shadow of religion and knowledge in the community scene (title in ), in Persian language, 1949
  • Mullah Mohsen Feyz Kashani and some fatwas from him (title in ), in Persian language, 1970
  • Genesis of logic (title in ), in Persian language, 1971
  • Research method in Islamic jurisprudence (title in ), in Persian language, 1972
  • Research Method in Islamic Jurisprudence "A Discussion in Evidence" (title in ), in Persian language, 1975
  • Contemporary jurisprudence seeks solutions and attempts to resolve jurisprudential differences (title in ), in Persian language, 1979
  • Criticize and check of Book (title in ), in Persian language, 1985
  • Ijtihad and its history (title in ), in Persian language, 1986
  • The value of rational evidence is the reason for wisdom (title in ), in Persian language, 1988
  • Characteristics of the jurisprudence of Mullah Mohsen Feyz (title in ), in Persian language, 1988
  • The role of time and place in jurisprudence and ijtihad (title in ), in Persian language, 1992
  • Lasting Monuments: Waqf and its Motives (title in ), in Persian language, 1994
  • Transformation of the judicial system; Nodes and Solutions (title in ), in Persian language, 1994
  • The expediency of the endowment and some of its conditions (title in ), in Persian language, 1995
  • Application of jurisprudential sources (title in ), in Persian language, 1995
  • The path of ijtihad and jurisprudence (title in ), in Persian language, 1995
  • Order and disorder in traditional societies, and academia (title in ), in Persian language, 1996
  • A study of jurisprudential issues regarding the role of reason, ethics, time and place (title in ), in Persian language, 2001
  • Extent of jurisprudence and expression of its examples (title in ), in Persian language, 2002
  • Council Ijtihad Roundtable (title in ), in Persian language, 2003
  • Customary associations (title in ), in Persian language, 2005
  • Custom of the wise (title in ), in Persian language, 2006
  • Description of the life and works of Feyz Kashani (title in ), in Persian language, 2007
  • Field of Worship Jurisprudence: The Place of Khums in Islamic Economics (title in ), in Persian language, 2008
  • Investigating the dynamics factors of jurisprudence (title in ), in Persian language, 2008
  • Investigating the authority of fatwa reputation in the principles of affiliates with an approach to the views of Ayatollah Boroujerdi, Khoei and Imam Khomeini (title in ), in Persian language, 2008
  • Validity and invalidity of seeing the crescent with the armed eye (title in ), in Persian language, 2009
  • Comparison of remittance contract with conversion of obligation and transfer of debt and demand (title in ), in Persian language, 2009
  • Relationship between deterrent punishments and punishments in Iranian criminal law (title in ), in Persian language, 2010

Death

Alireza Feyz died on March 3, 2019, at age of 93 in Tehran, Iran. Two days later, the funeral was held for him at the Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies of the University of Tehran.

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