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Abd Al-Husayn Sharaf Al-Din Al-Musawi
Ayatollah Al Sayyed Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi, (Abdel Hussein Charafeddine, Sharafeddine, or Sharafeddin) (), was a Shi'a Twelver Islamic scholar who has widely been considered a Reform movement, social reformer, "''activist''", and modern founder of the city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre in Southern Lebanon. He was known for his Nonviolent resistance, nonviolent efforts against the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, French mandate in Lebanon, for which the French encouraged an unsuccessful assassination attempt against him. Biography Family background Born 1872 in Kadhimiya in the Ottoman Iraq to a Lebanese Shia Muslims, Lebanese family of prominent religious scholars. His father al-Sayyid Yusuf Sharaf al-Din was from the village of Shuhur in Jabal Amel, Jebel Amel, the Shia area of what is now Southern Lebanon, and studied in Najaf, whilst his mother was Zahra Sadr, the daughter of Ayatollah al-Sayyid Hadi al-Sadr and the sister oal-Sayyid Hasan al-Sadr the well-known S ...
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Islam
Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world's Major religious groups, second-largest religious population after Christians. Muslims believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a Fitra, primordial faith that was revealed many times through earlier Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophets and messengers, including Adam in Islam, Adam, Noah in Islam, Noah, Abraham in Islam, Abraham, Moses in Islam, Moses, and Jesus in Islam, Jesus. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of God in Islam, God and the unaltered, final revelation. Alongside the Quran, Muslims also believe in previous Islamic holy books, revelations, such as the Torah in Islam, Tawrat (the Torah), the Zabur (Psalms), and the Gospel in Islam, Injil (Gospel). They believe that Muhammad in Islam ...
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Usul Al-fiqh
Principles of Islamic jurisprudence () are traditional methodological principles used in Islamic jurisprudence (''fiqh'') for deriving the rulings of Islamic law (''sharia''). Traditional theory of Islamic jurisprudence elaborates how the scriptures (Quran and hadith) should be interpreted from the standpoint of linguistics and rhetoric. It also comprises methods for establishing authenticity of hadith and for determining when the legal force of a scriptural passage is abrogated by a passage revealed at a later date. In addition to the Quran and hadith, the classical theory of Sunni jurisprudence recognizes secondary sources of law: juristic consensus ('' ijmaʿ'') and analogical reasoning ('' qiyas''). It therefore studies the application and limits of analogy, as well as the value and limits of consensus, along with other methodological principles, some of which are accepted by only certain legal schools ('' madhahib''). This interpretive apparatus is brought together under ...
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Najaf
Najaf is the capital city of the Najaf Governorate in central Iraq, about 160 km (99 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2024 is about 1.41 million people. It is widely considered amongst the holiest cities of Shia Islam and one of its spiritual capitals, as well as the center of Shia political power in Iraq. It is the Imam Ali Shrine, burial place of Muhammad's son in law and cousin, ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib, and thus a major pilgrimage destination for Shia Muslims. The largest cemetery in the world (Wadi-us-Salaam) and the oldest Shi'a Islamic seminary in the world (Hawza Najaf, Hawza of Najaf) are located in Najaf. Etymology According to Ibn Manzur, the word, "najaf" (), literally means a high and rectangular place around which water is accumulated, although the water does not go above its level. Al-Shaykh al-Saduq appeals to a hadith from Ja'far al-Sadiq, claiming that "Najaf" comes from the phrase, "nay jaff" which means "the nay sea has dried". "Naj ...
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A Shi'i-Sunni Dialogue
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ...
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Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi
Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi (, ) (3 January 1839 – 29 September 1902) popularly known as Muhaddis Noori or Al-Mohaddith Al-Noori, was a Shi'a Islamic Scholar and Shi'a Renaissance. He came from the town of Noor, Northern Iran in province Tabarestan and was a descendant of the Paduspanids, Spahbed of East dynasty. Mirza Husain Nouri died at the age of 66 years in Najaf and was laid to rest on the right side of the entrance to the Mausoleum of Imam Ali. Life Noori was born on 18 Shawwal 1254 AH (3 January 1839) at the northern Iranian city of Noor in Mazandaran. Following the completion of his preliminary studies, he strove to scrutinize the vast hadith literature and became an authority in this regard. Education Noori studied in Iraq under Morteza Ansari and Mirza Mohammed Hassan Husseini Shirazi. Noori's masters were: * Clergyman Mola Fatholah Soltan Abadi * Molla Shekh Ali Khalili, the jurisprudent * Mo’ez aldin Seyed Mehdi Ghazvini * Mirza Mohammad Hashem Khans ...
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Mohammed Kazem Yazdi
Mohammed Kazem Tabataba'i Yazdi (; 1831–1919) was a Twelver Shia Marja' based in Najaf, most famous for compiling a collection of religious rulings, al-Urwa al-wuthqa. Constitutional Revolution He was apolitical, and therefore during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, he stayed neutral most of the time and seldom issued any political statement. Contrary to Akhund Khorasani, he thought that Usulism did not offer the liberty to support constitutional politics. In his view, politics was beyond his expertise and therefore he avoided taking part in it. While Akhund Khorasani was an eminent Marja' in Najaf, many imitators prayed behind Kazim Yazdi too, as his lesson on rulings (figh) was famous. In other words, both Mohammad Kazem and Khorasani had constituted a great Shia school in Najaf although they had different views in politics at the same time. However, he was not fully supportive of the King Muhammad Ali Shah Qajar or Fazlullah Nouri, despite their efforts he didn't fu ...
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Fath Allah Gharawi Isfahani
Fath may refer to: People ; Given name * Abol Fath Khan (1755/56 – 1787), third Shah of the Zand dynasty, ruler of the Persian Empire in 1779 * Abu'l-Fath, 14th-century Samaritan chronicler * Abu'l-Fath an-Nasir ad-Dailami (died 1053), imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen * Abu'l-Fath Musa (died 1034), Shaddadid ruler in Armenia * Abu'l-Fath Yusuf, 12th-century Persian vizier to Arslan-Shah of Ghazna * al-Fath ibn Khaqan (ca. 817/818 – 861), Abbasid writer and official, friend and chief adviser of Caliph al-Mutawakkil * al-Fath ibn Khaqan (al-Andalus) (died 1134), Andalusian writer * Fatḥ al-Din Ibn Sayyid al-Nās (1272–1334), Egyptian theologian * Fath al-Qal'i, ruler of Aleppo in 1016 * Fath-Ali Khan Afshar (), Afsharid chieftain in northern Iran * Fath-Ali Khan Daghestani (), Lezgian nobleman who served as vizier to the Safavid king (shah) Sultan Husayn * Fath-Ali Khan Qajar (1686–1726), Persian military commander * Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (1772–1834), second Qajar Empero ...
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Akhund Khorasani
Ayatullah Sheikh Muhammad Kazim Khurasani (; 1839 – 12 December 1911), commonly known as Akhund Khurasani () was a Shia jurist and political activist. He is known for using his position as a Marja as legitimizing force behind the first democratic revolution of Asia that happened in Iran (1905–1911), where he was the main clerical supporter of the revolution. He believed that the democratic form of government would be the best possible choice in the absence of Imam and regarded the democratic constitutional revolution a ''Jihad'' (holy war) in which all Muslims had to participate. Along with Mirza Husayn Tehrani and Shaikh Abdallah Mazandarani, he led people against what they called a "state tyranny", issued fatwas, and "sent telegrams to tribal chiefs, prominent national and political leaders, and heads of state in England, France, Germany, and Turkey". When Mohammad Ali Shah became king of Iran, Mohammad Kazim Khorasani sent him a 'ten-point' instruction including ...
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