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Born in Mashhad, Iran (with the father as Dulan) to a Sayyid family, Sistani studied in Qom under Hossein Borujerdi and later in Najaf under Abu al-Qasim Khu'i. An Usuli, Sistani rose to the rank of mujtahid in 1960 and succeeded Abd al-A'la Sabziwari as Grand Ayatollah. Sistani was included in top positions of The Muslim 500: The World's Most ...
Ali al-Sistani 4 August 1930 (age 94) Mashhad, Iran: Bashir al-Najafi ... Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim (1934–2021) Najaf, Iraq: References This page was last edited on ...
al-Sayyid Ali al-Hussayni al-Milani السيد علي الحسيني الميلاني: 1948 (age 76–77) Najaf, Iraq: Qom, Iran: Official Website: 37 al-Sayyid Ali al-Musawi al-Sabziwari السيد علي الموسوي السبزواري: 1948 (age 76–77) Najaf, Iraq: Najaf, Iraq - 38 Muhammad Baqir al-Irawani محمد باقر ...
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 ...
When a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week, there was only one man who could stop it: a 92-year-old Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who proved once ...
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Saeed Al-Hakim is an Iraqi Twelver Shi'a marja, one of the five members of the Hawza of Najaf and the second most senior Shia cleric in Iraq after Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. [3] Al-Hakim is the son of Ayatollah Muhammad Ali al-Hakim, grandson of Sayyid Ahmad al-Hakim, and grand-nephew of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhsin al ...
Al-Sistani was born in Najaf, Iraq, to Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, and the daughter of Sayyid Muhammad-Hassan Shirazi (grandson of Mirza Shirazi). He comes from a respectable lineage of scholars, traced back to the 17th century. [4] His family claim descent from the fourth Shia Imam, Ali ibn Husayn.