Place of birth: Birjand – Iran Place of Demise: Mashhad -Iran Born Ayatullah Sayyid Mahdi Ibadi, the Friday Congregational Prayers leader of the holy city of Mashhad and a prominent and leading Islamic scholar was born in Khusuf near Birjand city in southern Khurasan in the year 1936. Education He completed his …
Read More »Ḥassan Ibn Yūsif Ibn Moṭahhar Ḥillī (ʻAllāmah Ḥillī)
Born and Family Sheikh Raziuddin Ali was born on Shawwal 11th, 635 A.H., in the Iraqi city of Hillah. He was an elder brother of the famous Islamic scholar, Allameh Helli. Their father, Sheikh Sadiduddin Yusof Helli, was a distinguished Shiite Jurisprudent, an expert in Islamic sciences such as Fiqh …
Read More »Muḥammad Jawād Bāhonar
Place of birth: Kerman -Iran Place of Demise: Tehran – Iran His political activities Though very young, Bahonar could not tolerate the situation in which Islam had been put in danger hence; he fought with Tyrant of time in different ways. He had been arrested for several times by Shah’s regime, due to his politico- religious activities, but he kept …
Read More »Sayyid Kamāl Ḥaydarī
Place of birth: karbala – Iraq Born Sayyed Kamāl al-Ḥaydarῑ was born in the holy city of Karbalā’ in the year 1956. Education He was raised in an educational environment, and completed his elementary, middle and high school education in Karbalā’ while simultaneously attending lessons on Tajwῑd and studies of …
Read More »Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlullāh
Place of birth: Najaf – Iraq Place of Demise: Lebanon Birth and Childhood Sayyid Fadlullah was born in the city of Al-Najaf al-Ashraf in 1354H/1935. His father was living there to study Theology, and by the time the Sayyid was born, had already established himself as an outstanding scholar, who was …
Read More »Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Jannātī
Place of birth: Shahrood – Iran Born Ayatollah Jannaati was born in Shahrud in the year 1311 A.H. (1932 A.D.). Education He was 6 years of age when his noble father sent him to school to learn the Quran and Persian literature. At 11 he entered the Islamic seminary of Shahrud …
Read More »Sayyid Riḍā Ḥosaynī Nasab
Place of birth: Yazd – Iran Born and Education Ayatollah Seyed Reza Hosseini Nassab, date of birth: 1959, has been studying and teaching at Qum Seminary, which is one of the greatest Universities of Shia Islam (1976-1991). In 1991 ,.after accomplishment of three scientific thesis in Islamic Jurisprudence, Astronomy and acknowledgment …
Read More »ʻAllāmah Muḥammad Riḍā Muẓaffar (ʻAllāmah Muẓaffar)
Place of birth: Najaf – Iraq Place of Demise: Najaf -Iraq Born and Upbringing Muhammad Rida al-Muzaffar was born on the 5th of Sha’ban, 1322 AH, 1904 AD, five months after the death of his illustrious father. Since his father died before he was born neither could meet each other, and …
Read More »ʻAbd al-Ḥosayn Amīnī (ʻAllāmah Amīnī)
Place of birth: Tabriz – Iran Place of Demise: Tehran – Iran Born Sheikh Abdul Hussein Amini was born in Tabriz, Iran on 1320 (AH). Family His father, “Haj Mirza Ahmad Amini” was one of the greatest scholars in Tabriz City and all people knew him for his knowledge and good morality. …
Read More »Muḥammad Bāqir Wahīd Behbahānī
Place of birth: Isfahan, Iran Place of Demise: karbala, Iraq Behbahānī, Aqā Sayyed Mohmmad-Bāqer, Shiʿite mojtahed and champion of the Oṣūlī school in Shiʿite law (fiqh). Often designated as Waḥīd-e Behbahānī (Behbahānī the unique) or Moḥaqqeq-e Behbahānī (Behbahānī the investigator), he is commonly regarded as the “renewer” (mojadded) of the twelfth …
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