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When he was 10 his family moved to Najaf, where he studied various Islamic studies including Arabic language, rhetoric, logic, Islamic philosophy, the Hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, eventually studying under Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. When al-Khoei died in 1992 he supported Ali al-Sistani as the chair of the marjaiya in Najaf. [5]
All Twelver Shia Muslims follow the Islamic rulings of a Grand Ayatollah. Under Saddam Hussein , the clerics were oppressed. At present, the most prominent among them is Ali al-Sistani ; who also serves as the head of the Najaf Seminary .
Ayatollah (UK: / ˌ aɪ ə ˈ t ɒ l ə /, also US: / ˌ aɪ ə ˈ t oʊ l ə /; Arabic: اية الله, romanized: ʾāyatu llāh; Persian: آیتالله, romanized: âyatollâh [ɒːjjætˌolˈlɒːh]) is an honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy. it came into widespread usage in the 20th century.
Mohammad Ishaq al-Fayadh محمد إسحاق فياض : 1930 (age 94–95) Jaghori, Kingdom of Afghanistan: Najaf, Iraq: Official Website: 9 Muhammad Taqi Majlesi Isfahani محمد تقى مجلسى اصفهانى: 1930 (age 94–95) Isfahan, Imperial State of Iran: Iran: Official Website [7] 10 Abdollah Javadi-Amoli عبدالله جوادى ...
[35] [42] He also first endorsed Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani rather than Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the marja for Shia in matters of religion, before claiming the role for himself. [43] In a 2009 interview, Fadlallah said that he did not believe wilayat al-faqih has a role in modern Lebanon.
Syed Aqeel Gharavi was born in Banaras, India, in 1964 but his whole family migrated to Najaf when he was very young. In Najaf, he got his primary education and after some years he went to India where he completed his secondary education from a college in Banaras.
Al-Hakim was born in Najaf, the son of Ayatollah Abdul al-Sahib al-Hakim, the son of late grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim. [2] His mother is the daughter of Iraqi scholar and statesman, Muhammad Bahr al-Uloom. Besides his studies in secular schools, he joined the Islamic Seminary at an early age in 1977.
The highest ranking marjiʿ is known as the marja al-mutlaq or marja al-taqlid al-mutlaq. [1] [2] [note 1] A marji' is usually also [3] a grand ayatollah. Sources differ as to when the institution of the marja˓ emerged, with Murtadha al-Ansari (died 1864) [2] and Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (died 940 or 941) [4] both being called the first ...