Draft:Jafar Kashif al ghita


Jafar Kashif al-Ghita b. Khiḍr b. Yaḥyā al-Janājī al-Ḥillī al-Najafī** (Arabic: جعفر بن خضر بن یحیی الجناجی الحلّی النجفی), commonly known as **Kashif al-Ghita'** (Arabic: کاشف الغطاء) (b. 1156/1743–4 – d. 1228/1813), was a prominent Shiite Marja' (religious authority) and a key figure in 18th and 19th-century Shia Islam. He was born in Najaf, Iraq, and became a central authority in Shiite jurisprudence and theology.

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Ja'far Kashif al-Ghita' (c. 1800)