Murtadha al-Ansari

Sheikh Murtadha Ansari Shushtari
شیخ مرتضی انصاری شوشتری
TitleGrand Ayatollah
Personal
Born1781
Died1864 (aged 82–83)
Resting placeImam Ali Shrine
ReligionIslam
NationalityIranian
JurisprudenceTwelver Shia
Other namesSahib al-Makasib, Persian: صاحب مكاسب
Sheikh al-Ta'ifa, Arabic: شيخ الطائفة
Organization
InstituteNajaf Seminary
Muslim leader
Based inNajaf, Iraq
Period in office1849–1864
PredecessorMuhammad Hasan Najafi
SuccessorMirza Shirazi
PostGrand Ayatollah

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Murtadha Ansari Shushtari(1781–1864), Persian: مرتضی انصاری شوشتری[1][2]); (Arabic: مرتضی الأنصاري التستري,[3][4][5] also transliterated as Mortaza Ansari Shushtari, was an Iranian Shia jurist who "was generally acknowledged as the most eminent jurist of the time."[6][7]

Ansari has also been called the "first effective" model or Marja of the Shia[8] or "the first scholar universally recognized as supreme authority in matters of Shii law".[9]

  1. ^ Dehkhoda encyclopedia (in Persian)
  2. ^ Alwathaya va Almawarith, by Morteza Ansari Shushtari
  3. ^ Faraed al-osoul (In Arabic), by Mortadha al-Ansari al-Tostari,
  4. ^ Alwathaya va Almawarith (in Arabic), by Mortadha al-Ansari al-Tostari
  5. ^ Shia in Isalam (In Arabic), by M.H. Tabatabai
  6. ^ The Qajar class structure, by Ahmad Ashraf & Ali Banuazizi
  7. ^ "ANṢĀRĪ, SHAIKH MORTAŻĀ – Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  8. ^ Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet, (2000), p. 210
  9. ^ Esposito, John, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, (2003) p. 21

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