Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani (Arabic: علي الحسيني السيستاني, romanized: ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Sīstānī; born 4 August 1930) is an Iraqi Islamic scholar. A Grand...

Mohammed-Ridha al-Husayni al-Sistani (Arabic: محمد رضا الحسيني السيستاني, born 18 August 1962), is an Iraqi Shia scholar, and the son of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani...

bin Abdallah al-Ali declared that suicide attacks in Chechnya were justified as a "sacrifice". Many prominent Islamic scholars, including al-Qaradawi himself...

He was succeeded briefly by Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari, until his death in 1993. Then his former student, Ali al-Sistani, took leadership of the seminary...

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...

the Big Four, among the most senior Shi'a marja living in Iraq after Ali al-Sistani. Born in Jaghori Soba village in Ghazni province, Afghanistan to Hazara...

Morocco, President of the UAE Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Iranian Shia Islamic scholar Ali al-Sistani are also among the top 9 in the list. Critics...

of al-Jihad al-Kafa’i issued by Sayyid Ali al-Sistani and under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Hussaini Shrine, Sheikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai...

Ali Al-Sistani in Iraq. Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi Al-Karbalai is based in Karbala, Iraq approximately 80 km from Najaf, where Grand Ayatollah Sayed Ali Al-Sistani...

Najaf, after Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Al-Hakim was born in the holy city of Najaf on 1 February 1936 to Sayyid Muhammad-Ali al-Hakeem. His mother was...

Sayyid Ali al-Sistani. Al-Irawani was born in Najaf in 1949 to Sheikh Muhammad-Taqi al-Irawani, a descendant of grand Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad al-Irawani...

Javadi-Amoli in Qom; Ali al-Sistani, Muhammad al-Fayadh, Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim and Bashir al-Najafi in Najaf. Dispute over Marja al-taqlid al-mutlaq In the...

his arrival in 1986, and is accredited on behalf of grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Al-Milani is currently considered one of the main leading Islamic religious...

by the Iraqi government on 15 June 2014 after top Iraqi Shia cleric Ali al-Sistani's non-sectarian fatwa on "Sufficiency Jihad" on 13 June. The fatwa called...

Adviser and Head of UNITAD meets with His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani". www.uniraq.org. Retrieved 3 February 2019. "المجمع الفقهي العراقي"...

organization under the supervision of the office of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. While they themselves include "(as)" in their organization title, some...

backed him up to that point, but it is believed that only when Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani intervened that he finally stepped down. The US government had expressed...

Shi'ite doctrine in Iraq was split between Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani and Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq Al-Sadr. Al-Sadr, based in Baghdad, appealed to the younger...

fighting broke out in Karbala, when al-Sadr's men attacked supporters of moderate Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani near the Imam Hussein shrine. Shortly...

against her proclaimed will. Furthermore, according to Khomeini and Ali al-Sistani, both of whom are Shi'ite scholars (having the degrees mujtahid and...

U.S. forces and Al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. The battle lasted three weeks and ended when senior Iraqi cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani negotiated an end...

2023, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani heads Hawza 'Ilmiyya Najaf, which includes two other Ayatollahs - Mohammad Ishaq Al-Fayyad and Bashir al-Najafi. The number...

Sistani is an Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ali al-Sistani (born 1930), Iraqi Shia Islamic scholar Farrukhi Sistani (c. 1000–c...

Qom; Ali al-Sistani, Muhammad al-Fayadh, Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim and Bashir al-Najafi in Najaf. In the early 1990s, the leading marja', Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei...

clerical community, particularly Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. In February 2004, he reported that Sistani had survived an assassination attempt. In May...

murdered near Goma. March 6: Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, Iraq. It is the first-ever meeting between a pope and a grand...

romanized: Tawḍīḥ al-Masā’il) is a comprehensive book (risalah) on Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) by the Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, published and...

Iraq and the Levant, and the fatwa by the Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani calling for jihad or Hashd al-Shaabi ("Popular Mobilization") against ISIL, militias...

the Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, condemned the kidnapping and called for her release. On 2 November, Al Jazeera reported that the kidnappers...

considered to receive the grand religious authority after grand Ayatollah, Ali al-Sistani. Al-Hakim died of natural causes at the age of 100, and was buried on...