Religion Shia Islam Website Official website | Name Mohammad Tabatabaei | |
Born 1945 ( 1945 ) Iraq | ||
Grand Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Ali Tabatabai Al-Hassani (Arabic: السيد محمد علي الطباطبائي الحسني) (born 1945) is an Iraqi, Twelver Shia Muslim Marja'.
He has studied in Shia Islamic seminaries of Karbala and Najaf, under Sayed Abul-Qasim Al-Khoei, Sayed Mohammed Al-Shirazi, amongst others.
The Sayed also resided in countries such as Pakistan, Kuwait and Syria where he taught many students in the religious seminaries.
Grand Ayatollah Sayed M. Ali Tabatabai currently resides in London, United Kingdom, and delivers speeches in his home. The Sayed also visits Shia Islamic centres and Hussainiyyas around Europe and London, including Masjid Al-Muhassin - the mosque of Sheikh Yasser Al-Habib, where the congregation, including Sheikh Yasser Al-Habib, would pray behind him. Sayed M. Ali Tabatabai is amongst the Shia Maraje who have given the Ijaza (scholarly licence) to Sheikh Yasser Al-Habib, attesting to Sheikh Yasser Al-Habib being a Mujtahid (i.e. at the level of Ijtihad).
Grand Ayatollah Sayed M. Ali Tabatabai has authored a number of books, and is known, amongst other things, for his stance against the Iranian regime, deeming them to be an un-Islamic government, and against the teachings of Shia Islam.