commonly known as Sharīf Murtaḍā or Sayyid Murtaḍā (Murtazā instead of Murtaḍā in non-Arab languages) and also popular as ʿAlam al-Hudā, was an Iraqi...

Shia jurist. He was taught by Al-Shaykh al-Saduq, Ibn Qulawayh, Abu Abdallah al-Basri and al-Rummani, and Sharif al-Murtaza and Shaykh Tusi were among his...

of Yemen Abu Hafs Umar al-Murtada (d. 1266), thirteenth Almohad caliph Sharif al-Murtaza (965–1044), Shi'a scholar Murtada al-Zabidi (1732–1790), Sufi...

Harvard University and a master's degree from the University of Oxford. Murtaza founded al-Zulfiqar after his father was overthrown and executed in 1979 by the...

Shaykh al-Saduq, Shaykh Tusi, Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Sharif al-Murtaza, Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili, Sayyed Ibn Tawus, Al-Hilli, Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i...

father died in Sham while he was still a child. Fearing the waste of his sharif lineage, his mother decided to move to Mecca when he was about two years...

Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri (Arabic: أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري, romanized: Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī; c. 776–868/869)...

الموسوي; 970 – 1015), also known as al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (Arabic: الشريف الرضي) was a prominent Iraqi Shia scholar and poet. Al-Radi wrote several books on Islamic...

these only al-Kāfī has survived in its entirety. Tafsir Numani Tafsir Qomi Sharif al-Murtaza Al-Sharif al-Radi Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid Al-Hurr al-Aamili Shaikh...

Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Sajjad (Arabic: علي بن الحسين السجاد, romanized: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sajjād, c. 658 – 712), also known as Zayn al-Abidin (Arabic:...

Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya (Arabic: مُحَمَّد ابْن الْحَنَفِيَّة, romanized: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyya, c. 637–700, 15–81 AH) was a son of Ali ibn Abi Talib...

figures of Baghdad school were Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid (d. 1022 CE), Sharif al-Murtaza (d. 1044) and Shaykh al-Tusi (d. 1067). Al-Mufid was a Twelver theologian...

Mu'tazilism (Arabic: المعتزلة, romanized: al-muʿtazila, singular Arabic: معتزلي, romanized: muʿtazilī) was an Islamic sect that appeared in early Islamic...

masters such as Shaykh al-Mufid, Sharif al-Murtaza, Ibn Ghada’iri, and ibn Abdun. Two authoritative Shia resources, Tahdhib al-Ahkam and Al-Istibsar, were written...

threat" (waʿd wa-waʿīd) of Judgement Day (Arabic: یوم القيامة, romanized: Yawm al-qiyāmah, lit. 'Day of Resurrection' or Arabic: یوم الدین, romanized: Yawm...

pp. 163–218. ISBN 978-1273126963. Nadvi, Syed Abul Hasan Ali. Al-Murtaza [The Murtaza] (in Urdu). Karachi Pakistan: Majlis-e-Nashriyat-e-Islam. pp. 218–382...

by Al-Shaykh al-Saduq, Ibn Qulawayh, Abu Abdallah al-Basri and al-Rummani. He passed his teachings to his own students, including Sharif al-Murtaza and...

Sharif al-Murtaza and was published under the title Risālat al-muḥkam wa-l-mutashābih. Tafsīr al-Imām al-Ṣādiq is another commentary attributed to al-Sadiq...

Mansour al-Hallaj (Arabic: ابو المغيث الحسين بن منصور الحلاج, romanized: Abū 'l-Muġīth al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj) or Mansour Hallaj (Persian: منصور...

was confiscated because of greed and envy. Alternatively, the Shia Sharif al-Murtaza (d. 1044) contends that Ali might have practiced taqiya (religious...

detailed in such works as Muḥammad ibn Rasūl al-Ḥusaynī al-Barzinjī's al-Ishā'a li-ishrāṭ al-sā'a, and Mishkāt al-maṣābīḥ. Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun, is said...

Hammam Ibn Ghalib Al-Tamimi (Arabic: همام بن غالب; born 641 AD/20 AH died 728–730 AD/110-112 AH), more commonly known as Al-Farazdaq (الفرزدق) or Abu...

often credited to Sharif al-Radi (d. 1015), a prominent Shia scholar. Known for its moral aphorisms and eloquent content, Nahj al-balagha is widely studied...

(isma) in Shia Islam further vindicates his course of action. The Shia Sharif al-Murtaza (d. 1044) writes that Hasan reluctantly made peace to end the civil...

romanized: Qarmatiyān) were a militant Isma'ili Shia movement centred in al-Hasa in Eastern Arabia, where they established a religious—and, as some scholars...

Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية; c. 716 – 801 CE) was an Arab Muslim saint, one of the earliest Sufi mystics and an influential...

Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (Arabic: محمد بن علي الباقر, romanized: Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Bāqir; c. 676–732) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...

wa-laylah: bi-al-ʻāmmīyah al-Miṣrīyah: layālī al-ḥubb wa-al-ʻishq, ed. by Hishām ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz and ʻĀdil ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (Cairo: Dār al-Khayyāl, 1997)...

theologian Nasir al-Din al-Tusi – Persian polymath, architect, and astronomer Al-Sharif al-Radi – Iraqi poet and Islamic Scholar Sharif al-Murtaza – Baghdadi...

AD) Sharif al-Murtaza (965–1044) Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi (982–1058) Tusi, Abu Ja‘far (995–1067) Ibn Jonayd Eskafi (b. 902) Muhammad b. Mas'ud al-'Ayyashi...