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Ali Sistani and Abu al-Qasim Khoei. When Ayatollah Khoei died in 1992, Abd al-A'la Sabziwari briefly became the leading marja'. However, when he died in 1993, Sistani ascended to the rank of Grand Ayatollah through formal peer recognition of his scholarship. His role as successor to Khoei was symbolically cemented when he led funeral prayers ...
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]
The organization was founded in the spring of 1998, on the anniversary of Eid al-Ghadeer, [1] by Sistani's son-in-law "in a small building" in holy Shi'a city of Qom, a scholarly center of Shi'a Islam [2]
Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the life of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric.
One highlight of Pope Francis' historic visit to Iraq is his meeting Saturday with a revered religious leader for Shiite Muslims, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Francis has spent years trying to ...
Islamic Laws (Arabic: توضیح المسائل, romanized: Tawḍīḥ al-Masā’il) is a comprehensive book on Islamic jurisprudence by the Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, [1] published and translated by World Federation of KSI Muslim Communities.
Sistani cooking is a style and method of cooking among the Sistani people. Although over the centuries, Sistani cuisine has been influenced by the cuisines of various cultures, it is still unique and diverse in its own way. Many of the dishes of the neighboring cultures of Sistan's people have also been influenced by Sistan's cuisine. [31]
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 ...