Sheikh Murtadha Ansari Shushtari | |
|---|---|
شیخ مرتضی انصاری شوشتری | |
 | |
| Title | Grand Ayatollah |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1781 |
| Died | 1864 (aged 82–83) |
| Resting place | Imam Ali Shrine |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Jurisprudence | Twelver Shia |
| Other names | Sahib al-Makasib, Persian: صاحب مكاسب Sheikh al-Ta'ifa, Arabic: شيخ الطائفة |
| Organization | |
| Institute | Najaf Seminary |
| Muslim leader | |
| Based in | Najaf, Iraq |
| Period in office | 1849–1864 |
| Predecessor | Muhammad Hasan Najafi |
| Successor | Mirza Shirazi |
| Post | Grand Ayatollah |
Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Murtadha Ansari Shushtari(1781–1864), Persian: مرتضی انصاری شوشتری[1][2]); (Arabic: مرتضی الأنصاري التستري[3][4][5] , also transliterated as Mortaza Ansari Shushtari, was an Iranian Shia jurist who "was generally acknowledged as the most eminent jurist of the time."[6][7]
Ansari has also been called the "first effective" model or Marja of the Shia[8] or "the first scholar universally recognized as supreme authority in matters of Shii law".[9]
- ^ Dehkhoda encyclopedia (in Persian)
- ^ Alwathaya va Almawarith, by Morteza Ansari Shushtari
- ^ Faraed al-osoul (In Arabic), by Mortadha al-Ansari al-Tostari,
- ^ Alwathaya va Almawarith (in Arabic), by Mortadha al-Ansari al-Tostari
- ^ Shia in Isalam (In Arabic), by M.H. Tabatabai
- ^ The Qajar class structure, by Ahmad Ashraf & Ali Banuazizi
- ^ "ANṢĀRĪ, SHAIKH MORTAŻĀ – Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ^ Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet, (2000), p. 210
- ^ Esposito, John, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, (2003) p. 21