Abdulkarim Zanjani

Sheikh Abdulkarim Zanjani (1887 – 1968) was a great Shiite man of the religious sciences and is known as the philosopher of the east. He was born in the city of Zanjan in the village of BarroBarrout. Of course, some mentioned his birth city as Najaf. He went to Tehran to study and at the same time concerned with politics and affairs which Islamic nations confronted with. In 22, he went to Najaf and there he was the pupil of the great men of the religious sciences like Seyyed Mohammad Kazem Yazdi and Seyyed Mohammad Firouz Abadi. He as soon as possible reached to authority level. He also had a good insight and skills in the sphere of the Islamic philosophy. He had two great accomplishments, one concerned with reconciliation nearnessess of sects and Islamic cults, other with the development of Islamic philosophy. Some of his works as follow: