Ibn Babawayh Cemetery

Ebn-e Babooyeh cemetery, Ebn-e Babveyh, or Ibn-e Baabevey ^[1] (Persian: ابن بابويه) is located in Iran in the town of Rey (now inside Greater Tehran metropolitan area).

The cemetery is named after the most famous occupant, Ibn Babawayh (d.991 CE) a famous scholar of Shia Islam. He taught in Baghdad and lived in Rey at the end of his life. His works (more than 300 volumes) are used as valid sources in Jurisprudence. His most famous book is Man La-yahzar al-faqih. He died in 381 A.H. and his tomb is in Ebn-e Babooyeh.^[1]

Many Iranian giants of sports, literature, arts, culture, religion, and politics are buried there. The reason for this is Rey being a Shiite pilgrimage site because of the Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine, which led many pious people to be buried near to this place.

Notable Burials

Royalties

Fakhr od-Dowleh Qajar (1862-1916) - daughter of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar

Political Figures

Fathollah Khan Akbar (1878-1938) - prime minister (1920–21)
Mohammad Ali Foroughi (1877-1942) - scholar and prime minister (1925–26), (1933–35) and (1941–42)
Hassan Esfandiari (1867-1945) - speaker of the Majles (1935–43)
Hossein Samiei (1874-1953) - politician
Hossein Fatemi (1917-1954) - minister of foreign affairs
Ebrahim Hakimi (1863-1959) - prime minister (1945–46) and (1947–48)
Ali-Akbar Derakhshani (1895-1978) - army general

Scholars and Artists

Ibn Babawayh (d. 991) - medieval scholar
Abulfazl Angha (1850-1915) - Sufi leader
Mohammad-Bagher Khosravi Kermanshahi (1849-1919) - novelist
Mirzadeh Eshghi (1893-1924) - journalist
Seyed Ashrafeddin Gilani (1872-1934) - journalist and poet
Abdol-Razzaq Baghayeri (1869-1953) - scholar
Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (1879-1956) - journalist and scholar
Mahvash (Ma'sumeh Azizi Borujerdi) (1920-1961) - singer, dancer, stage performer
Mahmoud Mahmoud (1882-1965) - writer
Fakhr-Ozma Arghun (1898-1966) - poet and feminist activist
Hossein Behzad (1894-1968) - painter
Mohsen Foroughi (1907-1983) - architect
Mohammad-Ali Riazi Yazdi (1911-1984) - poet
Abol-Qasem Payandeh (1913-1984) - writer
Abol-Qasem Anjavi Shirazi (1921-1993) - scholar
Hadi Eslami (1939-1993) - actor
Rahim Moazzen Zadeh Ardabili (1925-2005) - moazzen