Muslim Scholars

Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has condemned as “unjust aggression” the Saudi regime’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. In a statement issued on Sunday, Ayatollah Sistani expressed regret over Sheikh Nimr’s killing and offered condolences to the families of all those executed unjustly along …

Sheikh al-Nimr has dedicated his life to advocating peaceful change, interfaith tolerance, social justice and political self-determination.

Saudi Interior Ministry says it executes 47 people, including prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

Iranian Sunni clerics in a letter to the UN and other international organizations called for heightened efforts to sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr

The 29th edition of the International Islamic Unity Conference wrapped up in Iran Capital of Tehran. What follows here the conference's released final statement.

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, sent an open letter to Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar. He criticized the anti-Shia positions of the Al-Azhar, accusing the Sunni institution of having deviated from the line of moderation.

"Enemies aims to set off civil war among Muslims" A. Khamenei

Place of birth: Karbala – Iraq Place rolls: London – Britain Birth and Family Ayatollah Dr Sayyed Fadhil H Al-Milani was born in Holy City of Kerbala in year 1944. His paternal grandfather is the late Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohamed Hadi Al-Milani and his maternal grandfather is the late Ayatollah …

Place of birth: Tabriz – Iran Place of Demise: Qum – Iran   Born Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i was born in Tabriz in A.H. (lunar) 1321 or A.H. (solar) 1282, (A.D 1903) in a family of descendants of the Holy Prophet, which for fourteen generations has produced outstanding Islamic scholars. Education …

Place of birth: Fariman – Iran Place of Martyrdom: Tehran – Iran   Born and upbringing Ayatullāh Murťadhā Muťahharī, one of the principle architects of the new Islāmic consciousness in Iran, was born on February 2nd, 1920, in Farīmān, then a village and now a township about sixty kilometers from Mashhad, the …