List of Ayatollahs
Main article: Ayatollah
- See also: List of marjas (Grand Ayatullahs), List of Shi'a Muslim scholars of Islam
This is a partial list of Ayatollahs, a title given to high ranked Twelver Shi'a Muslims clerics.
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Current
- Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim
Kuwait
Current
- Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Muhri
India
Deceased
- Al-Allamah, Al-Faqeeh, Al-Adeeb Ayatollah Shaikh Ali Hazeen Lahiji (17th century)[1]
- Ayatollah Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli Khan Kintoori (1775-1844)[2][3][4]
- Ayatollah Syed Hamid Hussain Musavi Kintoori (1830-1880)[1]
- Ayatollah Aga Syed Mehdi Kashmiri (d.1892)[5]
- Ayat-ul-Ilm-e-wat-Tuqa Ayatullah Syed Imdad Ali – First Ameed Jamia-e-Imania, Banaras[1]
- Jawad-ul-Ulama Ayatollah Syed Ali Jawad Al-Husaini, Zangipur/Banaras (1857-1920) – Mu'aasir wa Ham-Jama'at Sahib-e-Abaqaat[1]
- Munaitiq-e-Zaman Ayatullah Syed Mohammad Sajjad Al-Husaini – Founder Jamia Jawadia, Banaras (1928)[1]
- Qudwat-ul-Fuqaha Ayatullah Syed Sibte Husain, Jaunpur[1]
- Ayatollah Syed Ali Shah Rizvi Kashmiri[1]
- Ayatollah Najmul Millat (25 May 1863 to 18 April 1938) – leading Ayatollah and father of Maulana Syed Mohammad the founder of Madrasatul Waizeen[1]
- Alam-ul-Aalaam Ayatullah Syed Muzaffar Husain Al-Husaini – First Haadi (Supreme Authority) Jamia Jawadia, Banaras (d.1944)[1]
- Ayatollah Syed Mohammad Abul Hasan Rizvi Kashmiri – Founder of Sultanul Madaris son of Ayatollah Syed Ali Shah Rizvi Kashmiri[1]
- Ayatollah Syed Mohammad Mosawi Ichgami Kashmiri (1910 - 1959)
- Ayatollah Syed Ahmed Rizvi Kashmiri (1901–1964)[6][7][8][9]
- Grand Ayatollah Syed Mohsin Nawab Rizvi Mujtahid (1911-1969)
- Ayatullah Agha Hajji Mirza Mahdi Puya Yazdi (1899–1973) – A Twelver Shia Muslim and an Islamic scholar, most notable for his famous tafsir of the Qur'an[1]
- Ayatollah Syed Yusuf Kashmiri (1908–1982)[5]
Current
- Ayatollah Syed Hamidul Hasan
- Ayatollah Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi
Iran
Current
- Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei
- Ayatollah Sadiq Hussaini Shirazi
- Ayatollah Waheed Khorasani
- Ayatollah Mostafa Boroujerdi
- Ayatollah Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
- Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
- Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati
- Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi
- Ayatollah Mohamed Hossein Kazemini Borujerdi
- Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani
- Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein AlAnsari
- Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini
- Ayatollah Mohsen Araki
- Ayatollah Mohammed Emami-Kashani
- Ayatollah Abbas Ka'bi
- Ayatollah Mohsen Kharazi
- Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
- Ayatollah Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami
- Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani
- Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi
- Ayatollah Morteza Moghtadai
- Ayatollah Mohammad Momen
- Ayatollah Mohammad-Taghi Khalaji
- Ayatollah Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
- Ayatollah Abdolnabi Namazi
- Ayatollah Reza Ostadi
- Ayatollah Zohreh Sefati
- Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri
- Ayatollah Abbas Vaez-Tabasi
- Ayatollah Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani
Iraq
Deceased
- Ayatollah Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum
- Ayatollah Khoei
- Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
- Ayatollah Sayyed Muhsin al-Hakim
Current
- Ayatollah Bashir al-Najafi
- Ayatollah Muhammad al-Fayadh
- Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
- Ayatollah Hadi al-Modarresi
- Ayatollah Mortaza Al-Qazwini
- Ayatollah Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein al-Ansari
- Ayatollah Mahmoud Hassani Sorkhi
- Ayatollah Ahmad Hassani Baghdadi
Pakistan
Deceased
- Ayatollah Muhammad Yar Shah
- Ayatollah Mufti Jafar Hussain
Current
- Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi
- Ayatollah Hafiz Riaz Hussain Najafi
- Ayatollah Hassan Raza Ghadeeri
- Ayatollah Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Qumi
Saudi Arabia
Deceased
- Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Ali al-Amri
- Ayatollah Nimr al-Nimr
United Kingdom
Current
- Ayatollah Hassan Raza Ghadeeri
- Ayatollah Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi
- Ayatollah Sadid Karbasi
- Ayatollah Ali Hussain Al-Hakim
Australia
Current
- Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein al-Ansari
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rizvi, Syed Saeed Akhter. "Indian Ulema List (Source- Khursheed Khawar:Tazkratul ulamae hind o pak)". islamic-laws.com. Ma'arif Publications. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
- ↑ Roots of North Indian Shi‘ism in Iran and Iraq Religion and State in Awadh, 1722–1859, by J. R. I. Cole, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford
- ↑ Sacred Space and Holy War The Politics, Culture and History of Shi`ite Islam by Juan Cole, I.B.Tauris Publishers, London · New York
- ↑ Dar al-Kitab Jazayeri
- 1 2 "SHIAS OF KASHMIR: Past Tense, Present Imperfect". saisaonline.org. South Asian Institute of Strategic Affairs (SAISA). January 11, 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
- ↑ "MEHRI TABAN" , AGHA TEHRANI
- ↑ "کوه توحید و عرفان، سید علی قاضی". Saghiyekosar.ir. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
- ↑ "IRANSEDA Network-کتاب گویا-شرح حال و حکایات سیدعلی قاضی". Iranseda.ir. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
- ↑ کتاب عتش/کتاب اسؤه عارفان 157 صفحه
External links
- Reuters (1985-01-20). "Ayatollah Khonsari, 98, Dies - A Noted Iranian Theologian". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
Notes
- The book "Durr-e-Mansoor dar Halaat-e-Ulama-e-Zangipur"
- The research work of Dr. Inayet Ali on "life of Jawad-ul-Ulama" from Aligarh Muslim University.
- The booklet "Haqnuma" published Jamia-Imania,Banaras.
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