ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Sīstānī (Persian: علی حسینی سیستانی; Arabic: علي الحسيني السيستاني; born 4 August 1930) is an Iranian Islamic scholar. A Grand Ayatollah and...

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

legitimate through loaning" and the Shiite scholars al-Muhaqiq al-Kurki, Allamah Al-Hilli and Ali Asghar Merwarid made the following ruling: ولا تجوز...

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...

Then his former student, Ali Sistani, took leadership of the seminary, whereby many of his followers became followers of Sistani. Khoei was born to a sayyid...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

eventually studying under Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. When al-Khoei died in 1992 he supported Ali al-Sistani as the chair of the marjaiya in Najaf...

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...

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...

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...

from the Center of Theological studies of Ali al-Sistani has said in 2013 that this was not true and Ahmed al-Hasan doesn't have the name Gaati in his...

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

The Sistani people (Persian: مردم سیستانی) (also known as the Sistanis, Sajestani, and historically referred to Sagzi) are an Iranian ethnic group who...

demise of Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, He became the Special Representative of The Grand Ayatullah Ali al-Sistani to Pakistan. "Dar ul Quran al Karim". "Uswa...

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...

organization under the supervision of the office of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. While they themselves include "(a.s. Its goal is "to spread the Shi`ite...

obliged to respect it and may even act against it. Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat, Ali al-Sistani[citation needed], Naser Makarem Shirazi, Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili...

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

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...

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...