Shia Muslim scholars of Islam

The list Shia Muslim scholars of Islam includes Ali Shariati, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Qumi and Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi. The list consists of 51 members and 1 sublist.

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Ali Shariati

Iranian academic and activist

Overview: Ali Shariati Mazinani (Persian: علی شریعتی مزینانی‎, 23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the ...

Date of birth: 23 November 1933

Date of death: 19 June 1977

Age: 43 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Writer

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Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi

Pakistani ayatollah

Overview: Shaikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi (Arabic: آيت الله العظمى علامه شيخ محمد حسين; 10 April 1932 – 21 August 2023) was a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja. Muhammad Hussain Najafi was running a Hawza in Sargodha ...

Date of birth: 10 April 1932

Date of death: 21 August 2023

Age: 91 (age at death)

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Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi

Shia scholar and community activist

Overview: Ayatullah Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi (Arabic: آيت الله السيد عقيل الغروى‎) also known as Allama Aqeel-ul-Gharavi (born 2 February 1964) is a leading Indian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, thinker ...

Date of birth: 2 February 1964

Age: 61

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Indian Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English

Overview: Abdullah Yusuf Ali, CBE, MA, LL.M, FRSA, FRSL (Urdu: عبداللہ یوسف علی‎‎; 14 April 1872 – 10 December 1953) was a British-Indian barrister and Shi'i scholar in the Dawoodi Bohra tradition who ...

Date of birth: 14 April 1872

Date of death: 10 December 1953

Age: 81 (age at death)

Occupation: Writer

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20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam 261T

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Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi

Pakistani scholar

Overview: Maulana Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi (مولانا سید صفدر حسین نجفی) was a scholar and leader of Islam.

Date of birth: 1932

Date of death: 1989

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: Pakistani

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Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Qumi

Pakistani Ayatollah

Overview: Ayatollah Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi, (Arabic/Persian/Urdu: آية الله سيد على نقى نقوى) born 1970 is one of the ayatollahs of Pakistan. His father, Allama Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi, was the principal of Hawza ...

Date of birth: 9 May 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: Pakistani

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Sheikh Haron

Australian cleric

Overview: Man Haron Monis (born Mohammed Hassan Manteghi Borujerdi; 19 May 1964 – 16 December 2014) was an Iranian-born refugee and Australian citizen who took hostages in a siege at the Lindt Chocolate Café at ...

Date of birth: 19 May 1964

Date of death: 16 December 2014

Age: 50 (age at death)

Occupation: Criminal

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Hassan al-Saffar

Saudi Arabian scholar

Overview: Sheikh Hassan al-Saffar (Arabic: الشيخ حسن الصفار, born 1958) is a Shi'a scholar from Qatif, Saudi Arabia. He is considered one of the most important Shi'a leaders in Saudi Arabia. He established the Shi'a ...

Date of birth: 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: Saudi Arabian

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Male

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Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar

Pakistani scholar and writer

Overview: Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar (Urdu: محمد مصطفٰی جوہر‎) (10 May 1895 – 24 October 1985) was a Pakistani scholar, religious leader, public speaker, poet and philosopher. He wrote many books on different ...

Date of birth: 10 May 1895

Date of death: 24 October 1985

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Pakistani

Occupation: Writer

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Indian Islamic religious leaders 34T

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Waheed Akhtar

Urdu poet, writer

Overview: Syed Waheed Akhtar (Urdu: سید وحید اختر ‎) (12 August 1934, in Aurangabad (Deccan) – 13 December 1996) was an Urdu poet, writer, critic, orator, and a Muslim scholar and philosopher.

Date of birth: 12 August 1934

Date of death: 13 December 1996

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Rasheed Turabi

Pakistani philosopher

Overview: Rasheed Turabi (1908–1973) was an Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, poet and philosopher. He was born on 9th Jamadi-us-Sani 1326, 9 July 1908 in Hyderabad, India. He was the eldest ...

Date of birth: 1908

Date of death: 18 December 1973

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: Pakistani

Occupation: Writer

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Vladimir Alexeyevich Ivanov

Russian orientalist

Overview: Vladimir Alekseevich Ivanov (Влади́мир Алексе́евич Ивано́в, also Wladimir Ivanow; November 3, 1886- June 19, 1970) was a Russian orientalist. He was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia and died in Tehran ...

Date of birth: 3 November 1886

Date of death: 19 June 1970

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Rasul Jafarian

Iranian scholar and historian

Overview: Rasul Jafarian (Persian: رسول جعفریان‎) (born June 30, 1964) is an Iranian clergy and researcher in field of Iranian history. He is currently the Professor of the Department of History at the Un ...

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Seyyed Mohammad Hojjat Kooh Kamari

Iranian Muslim cleric

Overview: Seyyed Mohammad Hojjat Kooh Kamari was a contemporary Iranian Muslim Faqīh and a Twelver Marja' who was in charge of the administration of the Qom Seminary for ten years. He was born on March 17, 1893 ...

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Najaf Lakzaee

Overview: Najaf Lakzaee (born 1969) is a researcher of religious and political sciences. He holds a PhD in political studies from Imam Sadiq University. He has passed Islamic seminary education up to the level of ...

Date of birth: 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Philosopher

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Heinz Halm

German scholar of Islamic Studies (born 1942)

Overview: Heinz Halm (born 21 February 1942 in Andernach) is a German scholar of Islamic Studies, with a particular expertise on early Shia history, the Ismailites and other Shia sects.

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Murtada Sharif 'Askari

Islamic scholar (1914–2007)

Overview: Sayyid Murtada Sharif 'Askari (Persian: سید مرتضی شریف عسکری‎‎; 4 May 1914 – 16 September 2007), known as Allamah 'Askari, was a Shiite scholar and a neo-religious thinker. He took a scholarly approach ...

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Sheikh Abdul Hosein Amini

Iranian ayatollah

Overview: Sheikh Abdul Hossein Amini (Persian: عبدالحسین امینی‎) was a Shia scholar, traditionist, theologian and jurist. His magnum opus is Al-Ḡadīr fi’l-Ketāb wa’l-Sonna wa’l-Adab .

Date of death: 1970

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Agha Syed Ali Sharfuddin Moosvi Baltistani

Historian, jurist, and theologian

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Kalbe Sadiq

Indian Islamic scholar (1939–2020)

Overview: Kalbe Sadiq was an Islamic scholar, reformer, educationist and preacher. He was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India in a Shia family, The Khawandah-e-Ijtihaad. He has visited several countries for d ...

Date of birth: 22 June 1939

Date of death: 24 November 2020

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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