Seyed Reza Hosseini Nassab (Persian: سيد رضا حسيني نسب) (born 1960) is an
Iranian
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Twelver
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Shi'a
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Marja,
currently residing in
Canada
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. He was the President and Imam of the
Islamic Centre in
Hamburg
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Germany
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, and since 2003 he has served as the President of
Shia Islam
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Federation in Canada.
Hosseini Nassab was born in
Yazd
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,
Iran
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and studied at the
Islamic seminary
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in
Qom.
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, Islamic Centre Hamburg. He then went to Canada, where he founded Valie Asr Islamic Center in Toronto, and Ahlul Bayt Center in
Ottawa
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.
He chaired the
Islamic Centre in Hamburg and founded the Cultural Islamic Center in
Berlin
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. In September 2003, he resigned as head of the Islamic Center of Hamburg. He then returned to Canada to found Imam Mahdi Islamic School in
Windsor
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, and Imam Mahdi Islamic Center in Toronto, Ontario.
Publications
Hosseini Nassab has written more than 130 publications about Islamic theology, Shia faith,
philosophy
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,
jurisprudence
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and
logic
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.
Books of Ayatollah Hosseini Nassab
Seyed Reza Hosseini Nassab's official website. His publications include:
* ''The Shia Responds''
* ''Teaching philosophy''
* ''Religion and Politics''
* ''Rights of Women''
*'' The Youths''
* ''Imam Hossein''
*'' Social Ethics''
* ''Formal Logic''
See also
*List of Maraji
Maraji are the supreme legal authority for Twelver Shia Muslims. The following articles contain lists of Maraji:
* List of current Maraji''
* List of deceased Maraji''
See also
*Marja'
*Ijtihad
*Hawza
*Risalah (fiqh)
*List of Ayatollahs
*List of ...
*List of Ayatollahs
This is a partial list of Ayatollahs, a title given to high ranked Twelver Usuli Shi'a Muslim clerics. Its ranking is higher than Hujjat al-Islam, and the next higher clerical rank is Grand Ayatollah also known as Marja'. This list contains only t ...
* Shia Islam in Canada
*Ismaili Centre, Toronto
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* List of Canadian Shia Muslims
References
External links
www.hoseini.org
Official website of Ayatollah Hosseini Nassab
in the Islamic Encyclopaedia of Germany
About the management
Islamic Centre Hamburg
Canada Shia News
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Iranian grand ayatollahs
Iranian Islamists
Shia Islamists
1960 births
Living people
People from Yazd
Iranian Canadian
Canadian Shia Muslims