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Encyclopedia > Fazel Lankarani


Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Fazel Lankarani (born 1931 in Qom, Iran) is the son of the late Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani and was a student of Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi. Persian Ayatollah, strictly Ayætollah (Arabic: آية الله; Persian: آيت‌الله) is a high rank given to major Shīˤa clerics. ... Qom is famous for the shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh, first built in the late 8th century. ... Ayatollah Sayyid Husayn Borujerdi (آیت‌الله سیدحسين بورجردی in Persian, 1914 -2003) was a Grand Shiite ayatollah. ...


Grand Ayatallah Fazel Lankarani was declared as the most knowledgeable specialist in the field of the Islamic law (Marja al-taqlid) by the central Shia school of religious studies in Qom, Hawza 'Ilmiyyah, after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini. Lankarani has been teaching in the areas of the science of Islamic law (fiqh) and osul for the last 25 years. He received his ijtihad, the permission of independent interpretation of the legal sources (the Qur'an and the Sunnah), from Ayatollah Boroujerdi at the age of 25. He leads the prayer in the haram of Bibi Masouma A.S in Qom. Ayatollah Khomeini founded the first modern Islamic republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیت‌الله روح‌الله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran. ... Islamic jurisprudence, (Arabic: Fiqh) (in Arabic and Persian: فقه) is made up of the rulings (Fatwa) of Muslim Islamic jurists (Ulema) to direct the lives of the Muslims. ... Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal decision by independent interpretation of the legal sources, the Quran and the Sunnah. ...


His Resalah, the book including his interpretation of Islamic Laws on different topics, is available in Arabic, English, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, and other languages. A Resalah is the name of the books writen by Shia Marja that contains their fatwa on different topics. ...


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