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Reza Hosseini Nassab
Summary
Seyed Reza Hosseini Nassab (Persian: سيد رضا حسيني نسب) (born 1960) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja, currently residing in Canada. He was the President and Imam of the Islamic Centre in Hamburg, Germany, and since 2003 he has served as the President of Shia Islam Federation in Canada.
Hosseini Nassab was born in Yazd, Iran and studied at the Islamic seminary in Qom. He then went to Canada, where he founded Valie Asr Islamic Center in Toronto, and Ahlul Bayt Center in Ottawa. He chaired the Islamic Centre in Hamburg and founded the Cultural Islamic Center in Berlin. In September 2003, he resigned as head of the Islamic Center of Hamburg. He then returned to Canada to found Imam Mahdi Islamic School in Windsor, and Imam Mahdi Islamic Center in Toronto, Ontario.
Forbiddance of forcing women to cover their hair: "It is not permissible to force women to cover their hair. It is necessary to respect the gender equality of men and women in law and rights."
On covering a Muslim woman's hair: "Covering the body of a Muslim woman is obligatory in Islamic law. However, the ruling on covering the hair of a Muslim woman based on the Quranic verses and Islamic narrations was one of the Islamic governmental rulings to differentiate the free Muslim woman from the non-free maid in a certain period of time when the system of slavery was still in place."
On forbidding the execution of apostates: "It is not permissible to execute an apostate at all."
On stoning: "Stoning is not mentioned in the Holy Quran and is not allowed."
On the purity of non-Muslims: "Non-Muslims, whether followers of divine religions or else, are all intrinsically clean."
Hosseini Nassab has written more than 160 books and treatises about Islamic theology, Shia faith, philosophy, jurisprudence and logic.
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