Azizollah Khoshvaght

Azizollah Khoshvaght (Persian: عزیزالله خوشوقت; 1 October 1926 – 22 February 2013), also known as Ayatollah Khoshvaqt,^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} was a contemporary philosopher, mystic, theologian, and faqih. He was a student of Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Hossein Borujerdi and Ruhollah Khomeini. He was the second child of his family family, went to seminary after passing high-school, and went to Qom after educating for five years in Lorzadeh mosque in Tehran.^{[citation needed]}

Khoshvaght returned to Tehran after the end of his seminary education, and got married at the age of 33; he has 2 sons and 4 daughters.^[7][8] One of his daughters married Mostafa Khamenei.^[9] His parents were from Zanjan.^[10][11] Khoshvaqt was a prominent scholar,^[12][13] Faqih^[14][15] and a teacher of ethics.^[16][17]

Khoshvaght who was also well known as Aziz Khoshvaght,^[18][19] was also the Imam Jama'a of Imam Hassan-Mojtaba mosque in Tehran.^[20][21]

Azizollah Khoshvaght died at the age of 86,^[22][23] when he was in Mecca^[24][25] on 22 February 2013.^[26]