Mohammad Yaqoobi
Grand Ayatollah Muhammad al-Yaqoobi | |
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محمد اليعقوبي | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | September 9, 1960 |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Usuli Twelver Shi`a Islam |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Najaf, Iraq |
| Post | Grand Ayatollah |
| Period in office | 2003–present |
| Predecessor | Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr |
| Website | www |
| Part of a series on Shia Islam |
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Ayatollah Mohammad al-Yaqoobi (Arabic: محمد اليعقوبي; born 9 September 1960) is a prominent Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja'.[1][2] He is the second most widely followed Marja' in Iraq, the most widely followed being Ali al-Sistani.[3] As well as heading the Al-Sadr Religious University in Najaf, he established one of the largest women's Hawzas in Iraq, and oversees many charitable organisations within Iraq.[4][5] He is an active figure within Iraqi politics, and is considered by the Hawza to be the spiritual successor of Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and the school of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, with the former famously naming Yaqoobi his successor in an audio recording.[6]
Education
[edit]Yaqoobi graduated with a BA in civil engineering from the University of Baghdad in 1982 and joined the Hawza Najaf in 1988. In Najaf, he studied under various scholars, most notably Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, under whom he was ordained with his religious turban, and Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. He maintained a close relationship with Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, who, amongst others, granted him his Ijtihad in 1998.[7] Amongst these testimonies is the Ijtihad testimony of Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani, the well known expert exegete of the Quran and student of Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai who in particular highlights Yaqoobi's expertise in deriving religious law from the Quran.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "List of Maraji in Arabic". iraqshia.net. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012.
- ^ "سماحة المرجع اليعقوبي (دام ظله)". www.yaqoobi.com (in Persian). Retrieved August 22, 2023.
- ^ Fotini Christia, Elizabeth Dekeyser and Dean Knox, To Karbala: Surveying Religious Shia from Iran and Iraq, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)
- ^ "Najaf's return as a religious tourist destination". BBC. February 27, 2010.
- ^ "Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs". www.atimes.com. Archived from the original on May 27, 2007. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
- ^ Mervin Sabrina, Les mondes chiites et l'Iran, Karthala (2007)
- ^ Ayatollah Al Sayyid Mohammad Al Yaqoobi niqash.org [dead link]
- ^ Yaghoobi bayanbox.ir (in Persian)
