Hawza Najaf

History

Subjects

• Mantiq
• Usul al-Fiqh
• Fiqh
• Tafsir al-Qur'an
• Ulum al-Qur'an
• Ilm al-Hadith
• Ilm ar-Rijal
• Tarikh
• Aqaid / Kalam
• Lugha
• Falsafa
• Irfan

  Trained clerics

• Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ardabili - he was one of the most famous Shia scholars. He was known as Mohaghegh and Moghaddas.
• Moḥammad Mahdī Baḥr al-ʿUlūm - he was khown as Baḥr al-Ulum for his considerable knowledge. Bahr al-Ulum was a popular Shia Muslim scholar. He is specifically known as one of the few individuals who attained the climax of spiritual perfection.
• Mohammad Bagher Shafti - he was the leader of Isfahan seminary.
• Akhund Khorasani - he was student Morteza Ansari. Khorasani was the greatest Marjaʿ after Mirza Shirazi and before Mohammad Fadhil Sharabiani, he was known as an indubitable master of usul al-fiqh.He authored a book focused on commercial law.
• Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei - Ali al-Sistani was his student. He was made the most prominent Grand Ayatollah in 1971 after the death of Muhsin al-Hakim. He was well-known author in Hadith studies and Rijal and Kalam knowledge.
• Ibn Idris Hilli - he founded the Hillah seminary.
• Mirza Shirazi - he was the leader of Samarra seminary and Tobacco Protest.
• Hajj Muhammad Ibrahim Kalbasi - he was the leader of Isfahan seminary.
• Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi - he was the founder of the Qom Seminary in Iran. Ruhollah Khomeini was his student. He was Marjaʿ.
• Kashif al-Ghita - he was the leader and great Marjaʿ of Shia.
• Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi - he authored Javaher al-kalam Fi sharh-e Sharay-e al-Islam and was a leader of the Najaf seminary.
• Morteza Ansari - he was the leader of Najaf seminary after the death of Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi. He has been called "first effective" Marjaʿ of the Shia or "the first scholar universally recognized as supreme authority in matters of Shii law".
• Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi - hi popular students included Imam Khomeini, Hossein Vahid Khorasani, Sayed Ali Khamenei, Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani, and Dr. Seyed Ali Mirlohi Falavarjani. Borujerdi was the sole marja "in the Shia world" from 1945-6 until his death in 1961. Borujerdi was the first Marja who attempted Islamic unity. He sent Sayyid Muhaqqiqi to Hamburg, Germany, Aqa-e-Shari'at to Karachi, Pakistan, Al-Faqihi to Medina and Musa al-Sadr to Lebanon.
• Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i - he authored Tafsir al-Mizan and he was one of the most prominent Intellectuals of philosophy and contemporary Shia Islam.He was an expert in philosophy in Islam. His philosophy is focused upon the sociological treatment of human problems.His book, Shi'ite Islam, was translated into English by Hossein Nasr and William Chittick as a project of Colgate University. He was interviewed by Henry Corbin..
• Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi - he was one of the greatest Marja in Lebanon. He attempted to bring Shia and Sunni closer