About M. T. Bahjat Foumani Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi (Taqi) Bahjat Foumani (1913 – 17 May 2009) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja and a mystic of the Iranian Shia school, famous in Iran (and Iraq) among religious people for spirituality. It is said that he had deep knowledge in mysticism (Ilme Irfan).. He was a student of the famous mystic, Syed Ali Qazi Tabatabaei, and also a student of Abulhasan Isfahani and Mirza Naini. Ayatollah Bahjat was among one of the most revered Shia clerics, whose religious decrees were followed by many Shia Muslims.He was born in Fouman, Gilan Province, Iran. At the age of 14, he moved to Karbala, Iraq to continue his religious studies. Four years later, he moved to Najaf to complete his studies under Ayatollah Taleghani and Ayatollah Naeini. He taught in the Seminary of Qom, Iran. Bahjat died at the age of 96, at the Vali-e-Asr Hospital in the city of Qom on Sunday 17 May 2009, from heart disease.,