A survey of the Biography of Ayyatollah Razavi Kashani

Ayyatollah Sayyad Mouhammad Razavi Kashani, son of AyyatollahHabbatallah Razavi, also known as Alam-alhoda, is one of the great 14th century Iranian jurists. He achieved the status of Ijtehad or Islamic independent reasoning after visiting numerous scholarly circles and taking lessons from such graet people as Molla Habibollah Sharif Kashani, SayyadMouhammad Alavi Borojerdi, Sayyad Hossein Kashani, Molla Muhammad kazim Khorasani, and Sayyadd Muhammad Kazim yazdi. He produced valuable works in interpretation, hadith or tradition, Islamic principles, and jurisprudence. This paper discusses his life and his scholarly works.