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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]
Najaf-based Grand Shiite Cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani advised Iraqi security forces to take more responsibility for the protection of Iraqi citizens. [18] During Friday prayers on the same week, all mosques in Kirkuk condemned the "barbaric attack," while the mayor and the sheikh of the Arab, Kurd, and Turkmen tribes also expressed ...
Najaf, Iraq: Najaf, Iraq - 80 Seyyed Nasir Hosseini سید نصیر حسینی: 1967 (age 57–58) Yasuj, Iran: Iran - 81 Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei سید مجتبی حسینی خامنهای 8 September 1969 (age 55) Mashhad, Iran: Iran: Son of current Supreme Leader of Iran (Ali Khamenei) [2] 82 Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Qumi
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Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the life of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric.
All orthodox 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 .
In 1998, Grand Ayatollah Sistani of Iraq issued a fatwā prohibiting University of Virginia professor Abdulaziz Sachedina from ever again teaching Islam due in part to Sachedina's writings encouraging acceptance of religious pluralism in the Muslim world. [18]
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 ...