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Sistani began his religious education as a child, first in Mashhad in his father's hawza, and continuing later in Qom. In Qom he studied under Grand Ayatollah Hossein Borujerdi. Later in 1951, Sistani traveled to Iraq to study in Najaf under Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim Khoei. Sistani rose to the rank of mujtahid in 1960 at thirty-one. [16] [17]
1933 (age 91–92) Panchah, Iran: Iran - 11 Seyed Mohammad Shahcheraghi سید محمد شاهچراغی 10 June 1934 (age 90) Damghan, Iran: Iran - 12 Morteza Moghtadai مرتضی مقتدایی 12 October 1935 (age 89) Isfahan, Iran: Iran - 13 Seyyed Mohammad Khamenei سید محمد خامنهای 25 December 1935 (age 89)
Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammed-Ridha al-Husayni al-Sistani (Arabic: محمد رضا الحسيني السيستاني, born 18 August 1962), is an Iraqi Islamic scholar, and the eldest son of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. [1] Al-Sistani primarily runs his father's office and oversees the financial and administrative work. [2] [3]
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All orthodox Twelver Shia Muslims follow the Islamic rulings of a Grand Ayatollah. ... them is Ali al-Sistani; ... Sistani 4 August 1930 (age 94 ) ...
Khoei's status as the pre-eminent scholar of his age did not go unchallenged. In the 1970s, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Shirazi, a radical theologian based in Karbala had a long-running feud with Al Khoei and his fellow clerics in Najaf over the legitimacy of theocratic rule. The dispute resulted in Khoei seeking to dismiss Al Shirazi's status as ...
First, he held a rare meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a prominent cleric revered by millions of Shi'ites who played a central role in ending the deadly intra-Shi'ite clashes in 2022 ...
The current Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei (age 85), [127] ... Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has often been identified with the quietist school of thought, ...