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A bid by Assad Ali to get the Guinness World Records to recognise Muhammad al-Shirazi as the most prolific writer in Arabic was rejected by the publisher. Al-Shirazi believed in the fundamental and elementary nature of freedom including freedom of expression, political plurality, debate and discussion, tolerance and forgiveness.
Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Ridha al-Husayni al-Shirazi (Arabic: محمد رضا الحسيني الشيرازي; Persian: محمد رضا حسينى شيرازى; 1959 – June 1, 2008) was an Iraqi Shia scholar, and the eldest son of Muhammad al-Shirazi. [1] [2] [3] Mohammad Ridha Shirazi was considered to be the 'hope for the future of Islam.'
Al-Shirazi was born to Mirza Mahdi al-Shirazi and Halima al-Shirazi. Both of his parents are from the distinguished clerical al-Shirazi family that emigrated from Shiraz to Karbala in the 19th century. He is the fourth of ten children. All of his brothers are clerics, and his brothers Muhammad al-Shirazi and Sadiq al-Shirazi are marja's.
Mirza Muhammad-Hassan Shirazi (1815–1895), Iranian-Iraqi grand Ayatollah widely known for his 1891 verdict against the usage of tobacco; Muhammad al-Shirazi (1928–2001), Iranian-Iraqi grand Ayatollah, and author; Muhammad-Ridha al-Shirazi (1958–2008), Iranian-Iraqi Ayatollah; Bagher Shirazi (1936–2007), Iranian-Iraqi professor and architect
The Qayyūm al-asmā is considered to be the first major book written by the Báb after the commencement of his mission. In the evening hours of May 22nd, 1844, the Báb proclaimed himself as a divine emissary, the Báb (gate), and then later the return of the Twelfth Imam, whom the Shiites are waiting to return at the end of days to fill the earth with justice after its being filled with ...
Shirazi was born in Najaf, Iraq. He hailed from the prominent religious Shirazi family. His father was Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn Shirazi (d. 1955), the son of grand Ayatollah Mirza Ali Agha Shirazi (d. 1936). His mother was the daughter of Sheikh Muhammad-Kadhim Shirazi (d. 1948). Shirazi is the eldest of eight siblings, four brothers and three ...
Shiraz is the birthplace of the founder of the short-lived Babi movement, the Báb (Sayyid `Ali-Muhammad Shirazi, 1819-1850). In this city, on the evening of 22 May 1844, he began discussions that led to his claiming to be an interpreter of the Qur'an, the first of several progressive claims between then and 1849.
Shirazi was married to Um Moosa, the daughter of his second cousin, once removed, Mirza Habiballah Shirazi. He had five daughters and three sons (Musa, Muhammad-Ali and Muhammad-Ibrahim). [11] All of his sons were clerics. His son Musa died in Tehran in 1980. Muhammad-Ali died in Najaf in 2003.