The Feature of faculty founder and Mortazawi School of Najaf al-Ashraf Excerpts from scientific, cultural, and social life of Thiqat ul- Islam Haj Mirza Mohammad Rahim Badkubeie

Mirza Rahim Badkubeie was born in the second half of the thirteenth century AH, and after spending the early stages of studying at the seminary in Baku, in order to take advantage of the great scholars of his day, headed to ‹Atabat in Iraq and in the seminary of Najaf, presented the classes of Akhund Mulla Mohammad Kazem Khorasani and other great scholars such as Sheikh Abdullah Mazandarani, Haj Mirza Hussein Khalil Tehrani, and Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Kazem Yazdi. Sheikh Badkubeie in Najaf, organized Najaf Seminary Board, composed of 25 scholars and jurists of the city in which in addition to legal, jurisprudential and scientific issues, had special ideas and stancein political issues such as constitutionalism in Iran. Badkubeie in Najaf, stablished Mortazavi School to educate Muslim community and with his pen and steps walked towards Islamic unity and proximity among religious sects and denominations. . He did not bear the colonial British and Russian governments, and believed the economic dependence on the superpowers pave the way for political bondage of Muslims in the clutches of colonialism. Mirza Rahim in his life was not safe from envy and slander of the closeminded and ghoulish arrow; so that some malicious always tried to defame and denigrate his manners.