Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abd al-A'la al-Musawi al-Sabziwari (Persian: عبدالأعلى موسوى سبزواراى; Arabic: عبد الأعلى الموسوي السبزواري; December 21, 1910 – August 16, 1993) was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja'. He is regarded as one of the most influential grand religious authorities and he was a contemporary of Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari | |
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السيد عبد الأعلى الموسوي السبزواري | |
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| Born | December 21, 1910 Sabzevar, Sublime State of Persia (present-day Sabzevar, Iran) |
| Died | August 16, 1993 (aged 82) Najaf, Ba'athist Iraq |
| Resting place | al-Sabziwari Mosque |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Iranian Iraqi |
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| Jurisprudence | Twelver Shia Islam |
| Relatives | Mohammed Kadhim al-Modarresi (brother-in-law) |
| Muslim leader | |
| Based in | Najaf, Iraq |
| Period in office | 1992–1993 |
| Predecessor | Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Ruhollah Khomeini |
| Successor | Ali al-Sistani, Mohammad Fazel Lankarani |
He was briefly the head of the Najaf seminary after the death of al-Khoei in 1992. After al-Sabzawari's death in 1993, there was competition between Ali al-Sistani and a few other senior jurists, to lead the seminary. It was after the fall of the Ba'athist regime, that al-Sistani took exclusive control of the marja'iya.
He is dubbed a renewer in Quranic exegesis, and this is seen in his notable book Mawahib al-Rahman.
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