Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari

Summary

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abd al-A'la al-Musawi al-Sabziwari (; عبد الأعلى الموسوي السبزواري; December 21, 1910 – August 16, 1993) was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja'. He is regarded as one of the most influential grand religious authorities and he was a contemporary of Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. He was briefly the head of the Najaf seminary after the death of al-Khoei in 1992. After al-Sabzawari's death in 1993, there was competition between Ali al-Sistani and a few other senior jurists, to lead the seminary. It was after the fall of the Ba'athist regime, that al-Sistani took exclusive control of the marja'iya. He is dubbed a renewer in Quranic exegesis, and this is seen in his notable book Mawahib al-Rahman. Lineage Al-Sabziwari was born to Sayyid Ali Ridha Sabzevari, a senior alim, in Sabzevar. He has an ethnic Arab background on his father's side. Al-Sabziwari's great ancestor was Ibrahim al-Mujab, the grandson of the seventh Shia Imam, Musa al-Kadhim. His lin

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