Ayatollah Sayyed Abbas Almohri ( ar, آية الله سيد عباس المهري; 1915–1988) was one of the first Kuwaiti
Shia scholars based in
Kuwait. He was born in
Iran in the
province of Fars. He studied religion in
Najaf and then he went to Kuwait to help people learn more about their religion and specifically the creed of Shia.
He helped
Ayatollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...
in his revolution against the
Shah of Iran. Later he started a political reformist movement in his country. Within a few months of the
Islamic Revolution
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, in 1979, he was forced to leave Kuwait with his family as the authorities sought to prevent an Islamic Revolution in the state (Ghabra, S.N. 1995).
Abbas Almohri's family members are Kuwaiti nationals. His eldest son Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Almohri was a scholar in Kuwait. He was Imam of Shaban mosque (after his father) in Sharq, Kuwait.
His younger son Ayatollah Sayyed Mortadha Almohri is a former jurisprudence student of
Ayatollah Sistani
Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani ( ar, علي الحسيني السيستاني; fa, , Ali-ye Hoseyni-ye Sistāni; born 4 August 1930), commonly known as Ayatollah Sistani, is an Iranian–Iraqi Twelver Shia Ayatollah and marja'. He has been described ...
.
Notes
References
موقع سماحة العلامة المرحوم السيد عباس المهري* Ghabra, S.N. (1995), ''Kuwait: A Study in the diametrical state, authority and community mechanisms''.
Kuwaiti Shia Muslims
Kuwaiti people of Iranian descent
1915 births
1988 deaths
Al-Moussawi family
Kuwaiti revolutionaries
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