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Sheikh Ja'afar was assassinated in his mosque during Subh prayer in the northern city of Kano in April 2007. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Opinions were split at that time regarding the perpetrators of the crime. While some said that Boko Haram , an extremist organisation, killed the sheikh, others said that Mr. Shekarau, the governor of Kano at the time, may ...
Mus'haf of Ali, a Tafseer of the Quran by Imam Ali; Al-Jafr by Imam Ali; Nahj al-Balaghah, a collection of sermons, letters and quotes attributed to Ali; Ghurar al-Hikam wa Durar al-Kalim compilation of over ten thousand short sayings of Imam Ali
Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani (Persian: جعفر سبحانی; born 9 April 1929) [1] is an Iranian Twelver Shia marja, influential theologian and writer. Sobhani was a former member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom and founder of Imam Sadiq Institute in Qom .
Kitab al-Jafr (Arabic: كِتاب ٱلْجَفْر, romanized: Kitāb al-Jafr) is a mystical book which, in the Shia belief, contains esoteric teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad for his cousin and son-in-law Ali, who is recognized as the fourth Rashidun caliph (r.
The Jaʿfarī school, [a] also known as the Jafarite school, Jaʿfarī fiqh (Arabic: الفقه الجعفري) or Ja'fari jurisprudence, is a prominent school of jurisprudence (fiqh) within Twelver and Ismaili (including Nizari) [1] Shia Islam, named after the sixth Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq. [2]
The personal relationship of the dā‘ī and his students, portrayed so vividly by Ja'far ibn Mansur al-Yaman in his work, would decisively influence the sheikh-murīd bond of later Sufi orders. With the rise of the Fatimid Caliphate in the first quarter of the tenth century CE, the Isma'ilis identified these caliphs with their imams.
Sheikh Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa (Kurdish: جەعفەر شێخ مستەفا born 1 July 1950 in Qaradagh, Suliymaniyah Governorate, Iraq) is the current Vice President of Kurdistan Region under Nechirvan Idris Barzani's administration. [2] He is from Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. [1] V.P. Sheikh Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa
Ja'far ibn Muḥammad ibn Ali al-Sadiq was born in Medina around 700 CE, and 702 is given in most sources, according to Gleave. [1] Ja'far was the eldest son of Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Bāqir, [11] the fifth Shīʿīte Imam, who was a descendant of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, and Fāṭima, Muhammad's daughter.