Murtadha al-Shirazi

The Ayatollah Murtadha ibn Muhammad al-Hussaini al-Shirazi (Arabic: سيد مرتضى ابن محمد الحسيني الشيرازي‎, Persian: مرتضی حسینی شیرازی‎) is a religious authority. He teaches a number of higher level classes in Islamic law, legal theory and Quranic exegesis at the Seminary of Najaf, Iraq.

Biography

Murtadha Shirazi was born in Karbala, Iraq in 1964. His family had produced scholars and marjas, including Mirza Hassan Shirazi, leader of the constitutional, also known as the Tobacco Movement in Iran, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Shirazi, leader of the 1920 revolution in Iraq, which liberated Iraq from colonial powers, and his father Grand Ayatollah Mohamad Shirazi.

In 1995 Shirazi was imprisoned for 18 months after which he "reportedly escaped to Syria and has requested political asylum."[1]

He has written a number of books in Arabic with some of his works translated in English.

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References
  1. FDI Newswire Number 36 February 18, 1997

List of his books
  1. Economic Success: Practical Strategies for Producing Wealth and Combating Poverty in the System of Imam Ali
  2. A Commentary of the Quranic Verse of the Divine Authority of Imam Ali: and his infallible progeny

See also
  • Sadiq Hussaini Shirazi
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