Muhsin al-Tabatabaei al-Hakim ( ar, محسن الطباطبائي الحكيم; 31 May 1889 – 2 June 1970) was an
Iraqi Shia
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 ...
religious authority.
He became the leading marja' of Najaf in 1946 after the death of
Abu al-Hasan al-Isfahani, and of the majority of the Shia world in 1961, after the death of
Hossein Borujerdi
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Hossein Ali Tababataei Borujerdi ( Luri/ fa, آیت الله العظمی سید حسین طباطبایی بروجردی; 23 March 1875 – 30 March 1961) was a leading Iranian Shia Marja' in Iran from approximately 1947 ...
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Ayatollah Mohsin al-Hakim
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See also
* Abu al-Hasan al-Isfahani
*Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei ( ; ar, أبو القاسم الموسوي الخوئي; fa, ; November 19, 1899 – August 8, 1992) was an Iranian- Iraqi Shia marja'. Al-Khoei is considered one of the most influential t ...
*Aqa Najafi Quchani
Seyyed Mohammad Hassan Hosseini Quchani ( fa, سید محمد حسن حسینی قوچانی), known as Aqa Najafi Quchani ( fa, آقا نجفی قوچانی) was one of the Islamic scholars and jurists of the fourteenth century AH. He was one ...
* Najaf Seminary
References
External links
Shia Leadership
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Iraqi ayatollahs
1889 births
1970 deaths
Al-Hakim family
Iraqi anti-communists
Burials at Imam Ali Mosque
Iraqi Shia Muslims
20th-century Iraqi people
Pupils of Muhammad Kadhim Khorasani