Muslim Scholars

Allama Sayyid Jaʿfar Murtaḍā al-ʿĀmilī a religious scholar, an expert in the history of Islam and Shiism, a Shiite biographer, and a scholar of the Islamic seminary of Qom and Najaf passed away at the...

Afghanistan’s top cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Asif Mohseni passed away due to an illness in Kabul, his family confirmed on...

The purpose of this book is to introduce the thought of an Imami Shiʻi scholar who lived and worked in Baghdad at the turn of the eleventh century and was the first of a line of scholars who helped establish a role for....

That man who is standing at the portal is Allamah Majlesi who has been called “The Mediator for visiting the holy Imams (P.B.U.T.)” by the holy Prophet Muhammad (May Allah's peace be upon him and his...

Hazrat-e Ayatollah al-Ozma Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi is considered as one of the most prominent students of the late Marja’, Ayatollah al-Ozma Sayyid Muhammad Bagher Sadr...

Al-Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir al-Shaftī is a Shiite mujtahid and scholar of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) in the Qajari period. He was a prominent scholar of fiqh in his time, and one of the first faqihs who was known with the title "Hujjat al-Islam"...

Abū al-Ḥasan Sha'rānī (b. 1320/1902 - d. 1393/1973) was a Shiite scholar and philosopher in the fourteenth/twentieth century, knew French and English, and was an expert in Quranic studies, hadith, fiqh, usul al-fiqh, kalam (Islamic theology), Islamic philosophy, geometry, and...

According to Ijtihadnet Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Hussaini Shahroudi, the son of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmoud Shahroudi and the writer of Manasik of Hajj (Hajj Rituals) and Drous Fi al-Ahkam al-Nisa (Lessons of Women’s Rules) Passed away at...

Ayatollah Qorban Ali Mohaqiq Kabuli, an Afghani Shia Marjaʻ passed away on June 11, 2019 at the age of 91...

The 3rd of June 1989 was a tragic day, the 7 am news on the Iran radio stated the following: "In the name of God, to God we belong and to Him we return. The holy spirit of the leader of...