also known as known as “Fauzel Narauqee”,[1] was a Shi'i cleric ("mullah"), who has been called "the first Shi‘i jurisprudent to argue for wilayat al-faqıh al-siyasıyah,[2] or "the divine mandate of the jurisprudent to rule" during the occultation of the Imam.
Naraqi's work called for the system in his technical fiqh work entitled Awa’id al-ayyam [note 1] predating the call by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for this system in his lectures and book Islamic Government by more than a century.
[7][8] Naraqi was born on the 14th of Jumada al-Thani, 1185 A.H. during the reign of Karim Khan Zand.
[1] He received the title of mujtahid at the age of fifteen and traveled to Iraq with his father in order to continue the hawza studies "in the main center of Shia hawza where he was a student under Moḥammad Mahdī Baḥr al-ʿUlūm, Sayyed Ali Tabautabau’ee, Sayyed Mahdi Shahrestani, and Sheikh Mohammad Ja’far Najafee.
Hauj Molla Mohammad, became known as “Hojjat-ol-islam”, and received the title of “Khautam-ol-mojtahedeen”, and was the son-in-law of Mirza-ye-qomee.