Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi

Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi (Arabic: محمد طه الحويزي, romanized: Muḥammad Ṭāhā al-Ḥuwayzī; 1899 – 4 April 1968) was an Iranian-Iraqi Ja'fari jurist, religious teacher and poet. He was born in Najaf to a father from Al-Huwayza, and studied early education from him, then became a student of Muhammad Husayn Isfahani for a long time. After the death of his father, he moved to Al-Huwayza in 1927, worked in agriculture, then returned to Najaf in 1946, from there to Qom in Iran, where he studied under Hossein Borujerdi, he who entrusted him for his religious educational institute. In Qom, he held a madrasah seminar in which he taught Arabic language and poetry. In his last years, he moved to Ahvaz for Shariah service until his death at the age of 69. Even though he was a Twelver Shia religious teacher in profession, Al-Huwayzi considered one of the most prominent figures of Khuzestani Arabs in Arabic literature, and left behind a collection of poetry and prose letters.