Biographies

Place of birth: Najaf, Iraq Born Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, was born in 1939, is the son of the late Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim (who was the spiritual leader for the Shia world in the period 1955-1970).Family The Al-Hakim family is a well known religious Iraqi family loved and …

Place of birth: Qum – Iran Born Ayatullah Imam Moosa Sadr was born in Qum, Iran in 1928. he was among a rare few of his time to both be a religious scholar and a university graduate. from an early age he had shown a great deal of intelligence and wit, …

Place of birth: Kazemiyeh – Iraq Place of Demise: Baghdad – Iraq Born and Upbringing Mohammad Baqir Al-Sadr was born in Kazemiyeh, Baghdad, on 1st March 1935. At the age of two, his father, the scholar Haider Al-Sadr, died. Education After completing primary school in Kadhimiya, Al-Sadr and his family moved to …

Place of birth: Tabriz – Iran Place of Demise: Qum – Iran Born Ayatollah Jawad Tabrizi was born in 1926 in Tabriz. Education  After finishing secular school and reaching to the ripe age of eighteen, he entered a theological school in his hometown. Within four years of entering the theological school he …

Place of birth: Qom, Iran Place of Demise: Qom, Iran Born Ayatullah al-Uzma al-Haj ash-shaykh Fadil Lankarani was born in 1931 in the Holy city of Qum. His father, the late Ayatullah Fadil Lankarani was a great teacher and scholar in the Islamic Seminary of Qum. His dear mother, was a …

Place of birth: Eastern. Azarbayjan – Iran Place of Demise: Najaf – Iran Born Ayatullah Seyyid Abulqasim Musawi Al-Khoei (RA) was born in Azerbaijan, Iran 15 Rajab 1317 H. / 1899 A. D. and passed away in Najaf Al-Ashraf, Iraq on 8 Safar 1412 A.H.(August 8, 1992) Education  Educated in the established …

Place of birth: Golpaygan, Iran Place of Demise: Qom, Iran   Born and Upbringing Ayatullah Gulpaygani was born on the birth of the 8th Imam and was therefore named Muhammad Radha. He was born in the village of Koukeh near the city of Gulpaygan (135kms north-east of Isfahan) in the closing years …

Place of birth: Khansar – Iran Place of Demise: Hamedan – Iran   Born and Upbringing  Ayatullah Khonsari was from the lineage of the 7th Imam, Imam Musa Kadhim (A, S), and was the son of Allamah Sayyed Asadullah. Ayatullah Khonsari was introduced to the knowledge of Islam from a very young …

Place of birth: Qum – Iran Place of Demise: Qom, Iran Born and Upbringing Ayatullah Bahauddini was born on the day of Eid-e-Ghadeer to a religious family, who named him Sayyed Radha. His lineage goes back to Imam Sajjad (A,S). Sayyed Radha’s father was called Sayyed Safiyudin, and had the distinction …

Place of birth: Broojerd -Iran Place of Demise: Qom, Iran Born and Upbringing  Ayatollah Seyed Hussein Tabatabaei Broujerdi, the great leader of Islam Shia sect, a great scholar of Islamic world of 20th century, was born in 1875 at the city of Boroujerd 400 kilometer south west of Tehran in Iran. …