Mulla Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi

Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi (Persian: محمد مهدی نراقی) (1715–1795) was a Twelver Shi'i scholar, theologian and moral philosopher. Al-Naraqi was a brilliant thinker of the late 12th/18th and early 13th/18th century. His son, Molla Ahmad Naraqi, was also a celebrated Twelver scholar. In the Qajar dynasty, he was prominent scholar at the philosophy and continued philosophical activities in the Kashan, Iran.