Murtadha al-Ansari

Sheikh Murtadha al-Ansari al-Tostari
الشيخ مرتضى الأنصاري التستري
TitleGrand Ayatollah
Personal
Born1781
Died1864 (aged 82–83)
Resting placeImam Ali Shrine
ReligionIslam
JurisprudenceTwelver Shia
Other namesSahib al-Makasib, Arabic: صاحب المكاسب
Sheikh al-Ta'ifa, Arabic: شيخ الطائفة
Organization
InstituteNajaf Seminary
Muslim leader
Based inNajaf, Iraq
Period in office1849–1864
PredecessorMuhammad Hasan al-Najafi
SuccessorMirza Shirazi
PostGrand Ayatollah

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Murtadha al-Ansari al-Tostari (1781–1864), (Arabic: مرتضی الأنصاري التستري;[1][2][3] Persian: مرتضی انصاری شوشتری[4][5]), also transliterated as Mortaza Ansari Shushtari, was a 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. ^ Faraed al-osoul (In Arabic), by Mortadha al-Ansari al-Tostari,
  2. ^ Alwathaya va Almawarith (in Arabic), by Mortadha al-Ansari al-Tostari
  3. ^ Shia in Isalam (In Arabic), by M.H. Tabatabai
  4. ^ Dehkhoda encyclopedia (in Persian)
  5. ^ Alwathaya va Almawarith, by Morteza Ansari Shushtari
  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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