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This is a compound value type (CVT) used by the Religious Organization type. It represents a person's tenure of leadership with a particular organization.Leader (expects: Religious Leader ): the person who held the leadership role Role (expects: Religious Leadership Role): the role that the leader...
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| George Hugh Niederauer |
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George Hugh Niederauer (born June 14, 1936) is an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Archbishop of San Francisco. By virtue of his office as ordinary of the San Francisco archdiocese, Niederauer is also...
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Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco | Roman Catholic Church | Feb 15, 2006 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco | ||
| Pope John Paul II |
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Pope John Paul II (Polish: Jan Paweł II, Latin: Joannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (pronounced [ˈkaɾɔl ˈjuzɛv vɔi̯ˈtɨwa] ( listen); 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) served as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic...
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Pope | Roman Catholic Church | Oct 16, 1978 | Apr 2, 2005 | ||
| Pope Benedict XVI |
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Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI.; French: Benoît XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the...
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Pope | Roman Catholic Church | Apr 19, 2005 | |||
| Gurumayi Chidvilasananda |
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Swami Chidvilasananda is the monastic name of Malti Shetty (Mumbai, India, June 24, 1955), who is the current guru of the Siddha Yoga lineage (parampara) established by Swami Muktananda.
Malti Shetty was the oldest child of a Mumbai restaurateur; he...
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Guru | Siddha Yoga | ||||
| Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche |
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Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (born 1961), also known as Khyentse Norbu, is a Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and writer. His two major films are The Cup (1999) and Travellers and Magicians (2003). He is the author of the book What Makes You Not a...
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Founder | Siddhartha's Intent | ||||
| Daisaku Ikeda |
Daisaku Ikeda 池田大作 いけだ だいさく (Ikeda Daisaku, January 2, 1928-) is president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a Buddhist association which claims 12 million members in 192 countries and territories, and founder of several educational, cultural and...
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President | Soka Gakkai International | 1975 | 2007 | |||
| William Laud |
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Archbishop William Laud (7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645. One of the High Church Caroline divines, he opposed radical forms of Puritanism. This and his support for King Charles I resulted in his...
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Archbishop of Canterbury | Church of England | 1633 | Jan 10, 1645 | ||
| Shaun McCann | President | North American College of Gnostic Bishops | ||||||
| Shaun McCann | Patriarch | Apostolic Johannite Church | ||||||
| Stephan A. Hoeller |
Stephan A. Hoeller, (1931 - ) is a writer, scholar and religious leader. Born in Budapest, Hungary he received a Ph.D. in philosophy with a minor in the philosophy of religion from the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
Richard, Duc de Palatine...
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Bishop | Ecclesia Gnostica | |||||
| Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama |
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Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub) (Tibetan: ལྷ་མོ་དོན་འགྲུབ་; Wylie: Lha-mo Don-'grub; Chinese: 拉莫顿珠) (born 6 July 1935 in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet, then recently incorporated into Qinghai) is the 14th...
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Dalai Lama | Nov 17, 1950 | ||||
| Barry Black |
Barry C. Black is the 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate. He was elected to this position on June 27, 2003, becoming the first African-American, the first Seventh-day Adventist, and the first military chaplain to hold the office of chaplain...
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Chaplain of the United States Senate | 2003 | |||||
| Wintley Phipps |
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Wintley Augustus Phipps (born January 7, 1955) was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Phipps is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister, world-renowned vocal artist, and innovative initiator of special projects such as the [US Dream Academy]. He also...
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Minister of religion | |||||
| Gordon B. Hinckley |
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Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) was an American religious leader who served as the fifteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995 until his death. He was the oldest...
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Apostle | Sep 30, 1961 | Jan 27, 2008 | |||
| Gordon B. Hinckley |
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Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) was an American religious leader who served as the fifteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995 until his death. He was the oldest...
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Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles | Apr 6, 1958 | Sep 30, 1961 | |||
| Gordon B. Hinckley |
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Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) was an American religious leader who served as the fifteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995 until his death. He was the oldest...
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President of the Church | Mar 12, 1995 | Jan 27, 2008 | |||
| Eric Yoffie |
Eric H. Yoffie is a Reform rabbi, and president of the Union for Reform Judaism the congregational arm of the Reform movement in North America.
Yoffie has remained the unchallenged head of American Judaism’s largest denomination since 1996 due to...
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President | Union for Reform Judaism | |||||
| Claude Montefiore |
Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore (1858 - 1938) was son of Nathaniel Montefiore, and the great nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore. Some identify him as a significant figure in the contexts of modern Jewish religious thought, Jewish-Christian relations,...
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World Union for Progressive Judaism | ||||||
| Lily Montagu |
Lilian or Lily Montagu CBE (22 December 1873 - 22 January 1963) was the first woman to play a major role in Reform Judaism. Although she grew up in an orthodox family, she was influenced by Claude Montefiore, a reform-oriented philanthropist and...
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World Union for Progressive Judaism | ||||||
| Solomon Freehof |
Solomon Bennett Freehof (August 8, 1892 – 1990) was a prominent Reform rabbi, posek, and scholar. Rabbi Freehof served as president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Beginning in 1955, he led...
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World Union for Progressive Judaism | ||||||
| Leo Baeck |
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Leo Baeck (23 May 1873 – 2 November 1956) was a 20th century German-Polish-Jewish Rabbi, scholar, and a leader of Progressive Judaism.
Baeck was born in Lissa (Leszno) (then in the German Province of Posen, now in Poland), the son of Rabbi Samuel...
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World Union for Progressive Judaism | |||||
| David Weiss Halivni |
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Rabbi David Weiss Halivni (Hebrew דוד הלבני) (born 1927) is an American Israeli world-acclaimed scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud, born in Carpathian Ruthenia.
David Weiss was born in the small town Kobyletzka Poliana ...
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Union for Traditional Judaism | |||||
| Levi Ibn Chaviv |
Rabbi Levi Ibn Habib was rabbi of Jerusalem; born at Zamora, Spain, about 1480; died at Jerusalem about 1545.
Under King Manuel of Portugal, and when about seventeen, he was compelled to submit to baptism, but at the first opportunity fled to...
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Chief Rabbi | 1525 | |||||
| Hayyim ben Joseph Vital |
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (Calabria, 1543 – Damascus, 23 April 1620) was a foremost exponent of Kabbalah.
Born in Calabria, Italy, as a young boy, Hayyim Vital was educated by the scholar, Rabbi Moses Alshech. Other than that, most of his early life...
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Chief Rabbi | ||||||
| Bezalel Ashkenazi |
Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi (Hebrew: בצלאל בן אברהם אשכנזי) (ca. 1520 - ca. 1592) was a rabbi and scholar of the Talmud who lived in the Palestine during the 16th century. He is best known as the author of Shittah Mekubetzet, a commentary on the...
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| Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah |
Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah (17th century) was a Portuguese kabalist and physician. He received a medical training in his native country as a Marano, but fled about 1619 to Safed and devoted himself to the Talmud and the casuists ("poseḳim") until 1625;...
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Chief Rabbi | ||||||
| Samuel Garmison |
Samuel Garmison was a Jewish scholar and rabbi who lived in the Land of Israel during the seventeenth century.
He was a native of Salonica, and settled in Jerusalem, where he became rabbi. Of his numerous works only two, and these in manuscript, are...
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Chief Rabbi | ||||||
| Moses Galante |
Moses Galante (the Younger) (1621 – February 4, 1689 Jerusalem), was the son of Jonathan and grandson of Moses Galante (the Elder). He wrote Zebaḥ ha-Shelamim, a harmonization of contradictory Biblical passages and of Biblical with Talmudical...
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Chief Rabbi | ||||||
| Abraham Isaac Kook |
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Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halachist, Kabbalist and a renowned Torah scholar. He is known in...
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Chief Rabbi | |||||
| Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog |
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Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (Hebrew: יצחק אייזיק הלוי הרצוג) (born 1889; died 1959), also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1937 until his death, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the...
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Chief Rabbi | |||||
| Jacob Meir |
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Jacob Meir, (1856-1939), was the first Sephardic Chief Rabbi appointed under the British Mandate of Palestine. A talmudic scholar, fluent in Hebrew as well as five other languages, he enjoyed a reputation as one of Jerusalem's most respected rabbis....
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Chief Rabbi | |||||
| Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel |
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (Hebrew: בן ציון מאיר חי עוזיאל, born 1880, died 1953) was the Sephardi chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 to 1954.
Ben-Zion was born in Jerusalem, where his father,...
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Chief Rabbi | ||||||
| Isser Yehuda Unterman |
Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman (1886 - 1976) was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1964 until 1972.
Born in Brest-Litovsk in modern Belarus, Unterman was educated at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Maltsch. There, he became a pupil of its Rosh Yeshiva,...
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Chief Rabbi | ||||||
| Shlomo Goren |
Shlomo Goren (Hebrew: שלמה גורן) (born 1917, died 1994), was an Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi in Israel who founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Chief...
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Chief Rabbi | ||||||
| Avraham Shapira |
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Avraham Elkanah Kahana Shapira (Hebrew: אברהם אלקנה כהנא שפירא; May 20, 1914, Jerusalem– September 27, 2007), was a prominent rabbi in the Religious Zionist world. Shapira had been the head of the Rabbinic court of Jerusalem, and both a member and...
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Chief Rabbi | |||||
| Yisrael Meir Lau |
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Yisrael (Israel) Meir Lau (Hebrew: ישראל מאיר לאו) is the Chairman of Yad Vashem and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel. He previously served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1993 to 2003.
Lau was born on June 1, 1937, in the Polish town of...
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Chief Rabbi | |||||
| Yona Metzger |
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Yona Metzger (Hebrew: יונה מצגר; born 1953) has been the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel since his appointment in 2003. His counterpart is Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel.
Rabbi Metzger was born in Haifa. He served in the...
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| Yitzhak Nissim |
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Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim (1896 - 1981) (Hebrew: יצחק נסים) was a former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel. Rabbi Nissim was born in Baghdad and immigrated to Israel in 1925.
In 1964, Pope Paul VI visited Israel but refused to visit Jerusalem. In protest,...
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Chief Rabbi | |||||
| Ovadia Yosef |
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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף) (born September 23 1920, Basra, Iraq) is a Mizrahi Haredi rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and recognized halakhic authority. He is the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, although he himself is Iraqi, not...
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Chief Rabbi | |||||
| Mordechai Eliyahu |
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Mordechai Eliyahu (Mordechai Tzemach Eliyahu, Hebrew: מרדכי אליהו, born 12 March 1928, Jerusalem) is a prominent rabbi, posek and spiritual leader. He served as the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1983 to 1993.
Eliyahu was born in the Old City...
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Chief Rabbi | |||||
| Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron |
Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (born 1941), is a former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel.
Rabbi Hamza Bakshi-Doron was born in Jerusalem and studied in several prominent Religious Zionist yeshivot. He was appointed Chief Rabbi of Bat Yam in 1972, and later,...
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Chief Rabbi | ||||||
| Shlomo Amar |
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Rabbi Shlomo Amar (Hebrew: שלמה עמאר; born in 1948 in Casablanca) has been the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and the Rishon LeZion (title) since his appointment in 2003. His colleague is Rabbi Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel....
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Chief Rabbi | |||||
| Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani |
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani (Arabic: السيد علي الحسيني السيستاني Persian: سید علی حسینی سیستانی, born August 4, 1930) is the current highest-ranking Shi'a Muslim religious scholar in Iraq who leads the Hawza of Najaf. He is a...
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Ayatollah | |||||
| Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili |
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili (also spelt Ardabili, Persian: عبدالکریم موسوی اردبیلی , born January 28, 1926) is an Iranian marja and politician.
He is commonly referred to as Mousavi Ardebili.
Mousavi Ardabili was the head of...
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Ayatollah | |||||
| Ali Khamenei |
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Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i (علی حسینی خامنهای, pronounced [ʔæˈli hosejˈni xɒmeneˈʔi] ( listen) born 17 July 1939), also known as Ali Khamenei, is an Iranian politician, cleric and the figurehead of the conservative establishment in Iran...
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Ayatollah | |||||
| Ayatollah Bashir Najafi |
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Grand Ayatollah Bashir al-Najafi (Arabic: آية الله بشير النجفي) (born 1942) is one of the six Grand Ayatollahs in Iraq. He was born in Jalandhar, a city in then British India. After the division of British India in 1947, his family moved to...
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Ayatollah | |||||
| Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri |
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Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri (Persian: حسینعلی منتظری), styled His Honourable Eminence, (born in 1922), is an Iranian scholar, theologian, writer and human rights activist. He was one of the leaders of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. He is...
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| Hossein Mazaheri |
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Mazaheri (born in 1934) is an Iranian Shia Marja. At the age of 14, he moved to Isfahan Seminary to start his religious studies. Five years later, he moved to Qom to complete his studies under Ayatollah Boroujerdi and...
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Ayatollah | ||||||
| Javad Gharavi Aliari |
Grand Ayatollah Javad Gharavi Aliari(born in 1935) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He was born in Tabriz, Iran. He migrated to Najaf to study in Grand Ayatollah al-Khoei's seminaries. He currently teaches in the Seminary of Tehran, Iran. He is...
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| Moslem malakouti |
Grand Ayatollah Moslem Malakouti (Persian: مسلم ملكوتی) (born 1924 in Sarab,Azarbaijan, Iran) is an Iranian Shia Marja.
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| Moslem Malakouti |
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Grand Ayatollah Moslem Malakouti (Persian: مسلم ملكوتی) (born 13 August 1923 in Sarab,Azarbaijan, Iran) is an Iranian Shia Marja.
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| Ayatullah Muhammad Hussain Najafi |
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Grand Ayatollah Allama Shaikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi (Arabic/Persian/Urdu: آية الله العظمی علامہ الشیخ محمد حسین النجفي) (born April 1932) was the first Twelver Shi'a alim from Pakistan to be elevated to the status of marjiyyat, and the next in the...
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| Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani |
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Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Fazel Lankarani (1931 in Qom, Iran — June 16, 2007 in London, England) was the son of the late Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, and a student of Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi. He was an ethnic Azeri.
Lankarani received his ijtihad,...
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| Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr |
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Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr (Arabic: محمد محمّد صادق الصدر; Muḥammad Muḥammad Ṣādiq aṣ-Ṣadr) (March 23, 1943 – February 19, 1999), often referred to as Muhammad Sadiq as-Sadr which is his father's name, was a prominent, Iraqi...
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| Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr |
Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Sādiq as-Sadr (Arabic محمّد صادق الصدر ) is an Iraqi Twelver Shi'a cleric of high rank. He is the father of Muqtada al-Sadr (born 1973). Sometimes the son is called by his father's name. He is the cousin of Grand Ayatollah...
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| Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr |
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Shahid-e-Khamis Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr (Arabic: آية الله العظمى السيد محمد باقر الصدر ) (March 1, 1935 – April 9, 1980) was an Iraqi Twelver Shi'a cleric, a philosopher, and ideological founder of Islamic Dawa Party born in al...
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| Ruhollah Khomeini |
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Sayyid Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (Persian:روح الله موسوی خمینی, pronounced [ruːhollɑːhe muːsæviːje xomejniː] ( listen)) (24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which...
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| Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari |
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (Persian: محمد کاظم شریعتمداری), also spelled Shariat-Madari (1905, Tabriz – 3 April 1986, Tehran), born to an Azeri family in Tabriz, he was among the most senior leading Twelver Shi'a clerics in...
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| Seyyed Husayn Borujerdi |
Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi (1875-1961) (Persian: آیت الله العظمی سید حسین بروجردی) was a Twelver Shi'a Marja and the leading Marja in Iran from roughly 1947 to his death in 1961.
Borujerdi was born in the city of Borujerd in the...
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Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Arabic: علي بن أﺑﻲ طالب; Transliteration: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, [ʕaliː ibn ʔæbiː t̪ˤɑːlib]; 13 Rajab, 24 BH–21 Ramaḍān, 40 AH; approximately October 23, 598 or 600 or March 17, 599 – January 27, 661) was the cousin and son-in-law of...
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