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January 1, 2021
Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi Passes Away at 85
Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi, professor in Islamic Seminary of Qom, Mujtahid, Quranic exeget…
October 23, 2020
Biography of Ayatollah Sayyid ‘Ali Qadi Tabataba’i
Sayyid ʿAlī Qāḍī Ṭabāṭabāʾī, (b. 1282 or 1285/1866 or 1869 - d. 1365/1946) was a mystic, scholar, an…
July 27, 2020
A Glance at the Life of Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Gharawi Isfahani
Muḥammad Ḥussain Gharawī Isfahānī (b.1296/1878 - d.1361/1942), known as Kumpānī, is a scholar of jur…
July 20, 2020
Biography of Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim Kashani
Sayyid Abu al-Qāsim Kāshānī (b. 1885 - d. 1962) was an Iranian faqih and politician who campaigned a…
March 15, 2020
Mahdi Haeri Yazdi: An Insight into His Intellectual and Political Philosophy
Thus, this paper will seek to provide a brief biography and an insight into the contentious thoughts…
March 9, 2020
Abd al-Karim Haeri Yazdi Founder of the Modern Ḥawza of Qom
Known for reviving the renowned Islamic seminary in Qom and his disinterest in the world o…
October 26, 2019
Allama Sayyid Ja’far Murtada al-‘Amili Passes Away
Allama Sayyid Jaʿfar Murtaḍā al-ʿĀmilī a religious scholar, an expert in the history of Islam and Sh…
August 5, 2019
Well-Known Afghani Shia Marja’ Asif Mohseni Passes Away
Afghanistan’s top cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Asif Mohseni passed away due to an illness in Kab…
July 8, 2019
Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir al-Shaftī
Al-Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir al-Shaftī is a Shiite mujtahid and scholar of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) …
July 8, 2019
Mirza Abu al-Hasan Shaʻrani
Abū al-Ḥasan Sha'rānī (b. 1320/1902 - d. 1393/1973) was a Shiite scholar and philosopher in the four…
April 9, 2019
Hamza b. ‘Ali b. Zuhra al-Halabi
Al-Sayyid Abūl-Makārim ʿIzz al-Dīn Ḥamza b. ʿAlī b. Zuhra al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥalabī, b. 511/1118 - d. 588…
February 21, 2019
Ayatollah Muhammad Mo’men Passes Away at 81
Ayatollah Mohammad Mo’men a member of Assembly of Experts of the Leadership and The Guardian Council…
December 24, 2018
Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Passes Away
Chairman of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, passed away at 70. Th…
June 29, 2018
A Look at the Life of Ayatollah Sayyid Muḥammad Beheshtī
Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayni Behishtī was an influential and noticeable clergy in the Islamic Revolution…
June 19, 2018
Sheikh Hussayn al-Hilli, the Great Shia Faqih
Ḥusayn al-Ḥillī, the great Imami Jurist of 14th century, was one of the students of Mirza Muhammad H…
May 18, 2018
Sayyid Muḥammad Kāẓim Ṭabāṭabāʾī al-Yazdī
Al-Sayyid Muḥammad Kāẓim al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī al-Yazdī (b. 1247/1831 – d.1337/1919) was a well-known …
April 11, 2018
Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Muwaḥḥid Abṭaḥī
Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Muwaḥḥid Abṭaḥī, (b. 1349/1930 - d. 1422/2002) was a scholar in fiqh, rijal, ha…
April 7, 2018
Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī b. Ismaʿiī al-Ṣadr
Al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī b. Ismaʿiī al-Ṣadr known as al-Sayyid Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Ṣadr (b. 1299/1881-2 - …
January 22, 2018
Mīrzā Abul-Qāsim b. Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Shaftī (Mīrzā al-Qummī)
Al-Mīrzā Abul-Qāsim b. Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Shaftī, commonly known as al-Mīrzā al-Qummī and al-Muḥaqqiq…
January 22, 2018
Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi (the Author of Jawahir)
Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Bāqir b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Sharīf al-Iṣfahānī (b. arou…
January 5, 2018
Abū Muḥammad Faḍl b. Shādhān b. Khalīl al-Azdī al-Nīshābūrī
Abū Muḥammad Faḍl b. Shādhān b. Khalīl al-Azdī al-Nīshābūrī, (d. 260/873) was an Imami scholar of ka…
January 5, 2018
Abū Muḥammad Ḥasan b. ʿAli al-Ḥadhāʾ al-ʿUmmānī or al-ʿAmmānī
Abū Muḥammad Ḥassan b. ʿAli al-Ḥadhāʾ al-ʿUmmānī or al-ʿAmmānī, known as Ibn Abī ʿAqīl was a Shi'a s…
January 5, 2018
Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Junayd al-Kātib al-Iskāfī
Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Junayd al-Kātib al-Iskāfī, known as Ibn al-Junayd al-Iskāfī, was an…
October 29, 2017
A Look at life of Late Grand Ayatollah Khu’i
The Muslim world has lost one of its brightest stars when, at 3:13 pm on Saturday, Safar 8, 1413 (Au…
July 24, 2017
Mīrzā Habībullah Rashtī
Mīrzā Habībullah Rashtī (b. 1234/1819 - d. 1312/1894), a famous Shi'a jurist (faqih) and marja' in Q…
July 14, 2017
Jamāl al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Nabī b. ʿAbd al-Ṣāniʿ al-Nishābūrī al-Istarābādī (Mīrzā Muḥammad al-Istarābādī)
Abū Aḥmad Jamāl al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Nabī b. ʿAbd al-Ṣāniʿ al-Nishābūrī al-Istarābādī (b. 1178/1764- d.…
July 9, 2017
Muḥammad Ḥosayn Gharawī Isfahānī
Muḥammad Ḥosayn Gharawī Isfahānī (b.1296/1879 - d.1361/1942), known as Kumpānī, is a scholar of fiqh…
June 12, 2017
Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAlī Bihbahānī
Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAlī b. Waḥīd Bihbahānī known as Aqa Muhammad Ali Kirmanshahi was a Shia influential…
June 1, 2017
‘Abdollāh Ibn Muḥammad Ḥassan Māmaqānī
'Abdollāh b. Muḥammad Ḥasan Māmaqānī or Mamaqāni (b. 1290/1873 - d. 1351/1933) is a Shi'a scholar i…
June 1, 2017
