The body of the late Grand Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani was laid to rest near the shrine of Imam Hussain (A.S) after funeral ceremonies in Qom, Najaf Ashraf and Karbala.
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Muslim Female Religious Authority in Russia: How Mukhlisa Bubi Became the First Female Qāḍī in the Modern Muslim World
On 11 May 1917, the participants of the All-Russia Muslim Congress elected a woman, Mukhlisa Bubi, as a qāḍī (a Muslim judge) to the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Inner Russia and Siberia. Granting legal authority to a woman at a central religious institution was unprecedented in the Muslim world. This article explores how this...