Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi (19 September 1948 – 10 February 2002), widely known as Adeeb-e-Asr and Allamah Shaoor, was an Indian Twelver Shī'ah scholar, public speaker, translator, and historian as well as an author and poet. He authored and translated many Islamic books and also wrote many articles and poems. He received the title "Adeeb-e-Asr" ("Writer of the era") from Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi during the tour of

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in 1990.

Biography

Early life and education

Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi was born at Gopalpur,

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, India on 19 September 1948. His father was Syed Mazhar Hussain Rizvi. At the age of three, his father died and he was brought up by his mother. It was his mother's ambitions that lead him towards Islamic studies so he joined Jamia Nazmia and stayed in Madrasatul Waizeen. But due to financial problems he moved to

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Shia

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to fulfil his ambition to become an

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. As soon as financial conditions improved he moved to Madrasatul Waizeen. He returned home after completing his last exam Mumtaz-ul-Afazil at Jamia Nazmia.

Death and funeral

Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi died on 10 February 2002. His funeral was attended by many scholars and

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and was followed by a crowd at Gopalpur,

, Bihar.

Bibliography

As translator

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Articles

His articles was greatly influenced by Islamic Literature and enlighten many historic facts of Islam. His articles mainly laid emphasis on

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, wilayat, tragedy of Karbala, and usool-e-deen. Some of his articles are listed below:
wilayet-e-Ali(a.s) Qur'an ki raushni mewilayat-e-Ali(a.s) ki Ma'wun AhadeesGhadir aur Qur'anGhadeer: Daaman ki DhajjiyanAhmiyat Ghadir: Masumeen(a.s) ki nazar meShuja'at Hazrat Zahra(s.a)Imam Hussain(a.s) paikar-e-MuhabbatImam Hussain(a.s) per GiryaZikr-e-Khuda aur KarbalaAadi Tariqa shahadat kyuGhulamo ke Hukhuq aur KarbalaEk maqbool Nauhajanabe Qasim(a.s) ki Shahadat
Beside Islamic article, he had also written articles on

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' List of Shi'a Muslim scholars of Islam Alive * Emami, Mohammad (b. 1931) * Khorasani, Hossein Vahid (b. 1921) * Hamedani, Hossein Noori (b. 1925) * Rohani, Sadeq (b. 1926) * Jannati, Ahmad (b. 1927) * Mousa Shubairi Zanjani (b. 1927) * Naser Makarem Shirazi (b. 1927) * al-Fa ...

* Shi'a clergy *

Al-Ghadir ''Al Ghadir'' (Arabic: الغدير في الكتاب والسنة والأدب) (that is " The Ghadir in the Book, the Sunnah, and Literature") is a 20-volume book written by the Iranian Shia scholar Abd Al Husayn Amini. The book describes an ...

References

External links

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