Ayatollah Mohammad al-Yaqoobi ( ar, محمد اليعقوبي; born 9 September 1960) is a prominent
Iraqi
Twelver Shi'a
Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...
Marja'. He is the second most widely followed
Marja' in Iraq, the most widely followed being
Ali al-Sistani. As well as heading the Al-Sadr Religious University in Najaf, he established one of the largest women's
Hawzas in
Iraq, and oversees many charitable organisations within
Iraq. He is an active figure within Iraqi politics, and is considered by the
Hawza to be the spiritual successor of
Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and the school of
Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, with the former famously naming Yaqoobi his successor in an audio recording.
Education
Yaqoobi graduated with a BA in Civil Engineering from the
University of Baghdad in 1982 and joined the
Hawza Najaf in 1988. In Najaf, he studied under various scholars, most notably Ayatollah
Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, under whom he was ordained with his religious turban, and Ayatollah
Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. He maintained a close relationship with Grand Ayatollah
Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, who, amongst others, granted him his ''Ijtihad'' in 1998. Amongst these testimonies is the Ijtihad testimony of
Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani (Persian: محمد صادقی تهراني) (born 1926 - died March 21, 2011) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja.
He has studied in seminaries of Qum, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Muh ...
, the well known expert exegete of the Quran and student of
Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai who in particular highlights Yaqoobi's expertise in deriving religious law from the Quran.
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See also
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List of Maraji
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Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr
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Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
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Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
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Najaf
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Hawza
References
External links
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1960 births
Living people
People from Najaf
Iraqi grand ayatollahs
Iraqi Islamists
Shia Islamists
University of Baghdad alumni