Tag Archives: shia Scholars

'Abdollāh b. Muḥammad Ḥasan Māmaqānī or Mamaqāni (b. 1290/1873 - d. 1351/1933) is a Shi'a scholar in rijal of the 14th/20 century. He was one of the great scholars of Najaf and had many students, including Sayyid Shihab al-Din Mar'ashi Najafi. He has written some works, the most important of...

Al-Sayyid Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī (b. 1180/1766 - d. 1242/1827) , known as al-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Mujāhid and Ṣāḥib al-Manāhil; the author of al-Manahil, was a Shi'ite scholar of fiqh in the...

The fourth/tenth century Shia theologian and jurist al-Shaykh al-Mufid discusses juristic authority in his main...

There are some rare photos of Late ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Bahjat which passed away in 17 May 2009...

Mīrzā Muḥammad Taqī al-Shīrāzī known as the Second Mīrza or the Mirza the Junior, was a Shiite authority or marja' and the political leader of the Independence Movement in Iraq in nineteenth and...

This study surveys rulings on the subject of migration issued by Imami Shi'ite legal scholars from the formative 10th - 14th centuries to...

Senior clerics in Bahrain have once again expressed their unwavering support for distinguished Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim, and condemned the...

Al-Miqdād b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Ḥillī al-Suyūrī (d. 826/1423), known as al-Fāḍil al-Miqdād was a...

The article “Selecting a Spiritual Authority: The Maraj al-Taqlid among First- and Second-Wave Iraqi Shi͑a Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan” seeks to...

Abu l-ʿAbbās Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Fahd al-Ḥillī al-Asadī is a Shi'ite scholar, faqih and...