Ayatollah Marashi Najafi
Saturday, 01 November 2008 00:00
Ayatullah Sayyid Shihab al-Din Hussaini al-Marashi al-Najafi was born on 20the Safar 1315 A.H./ July 21, 1897 in the holy city of Najaf in a famous religious family. In the beginning he was taught by his learned father Ayatullah Shams al-Din Mahmood Husaini Marashi Najafi who was one of the greatest Islamic jurisprudent of that era. He also learned Qur'anic sciences and its exegesis, fundamentals of jurisprudence, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, Rijal and theology from a large group of well-known professors in the Hawzah in the holy city of Najaf.
