Sayed mahdi al modaressi biography

He hails from a clerical family which includes his uncle, Grand Ayatollah , Muhammed-Taqi al-Modarresi , one of Iraq's leading faith leaders of its majority Shia population. He has led prayers at the United States House of Representatives , and delivers lectures around the world. Modarresi leads Interpath, an outreach program to strengthen ties between Muslims and other major faith traditions.

Modarresi was born in Kuwait in From his father's side, he is the son of Hadi al-Modarresi , and great-grandson of Mirza Mahdi al-Shirazi.

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He claims descent from Muhammad , through Ali Ibn al-Husayn from his father's side, and Musa al-Kadhim , from his mother's side. Under his father's supervision, Modarresi followed a solid traditional curriculum in the hawza , studying classical works on various disciplines of Islamic jurisprudence as well as the ancillary faculties commonly taught at religious learning institutions.

A graduate of the acclaimed al-Qaim Theological Research Institute at the Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque in Damascus, Modarresi reached the level of sotouh al ulya upper foundations. His classical curriculum embodied a methodology which crystallizes the middle way of Islam; respect for the differences between jurists, and a spiritual education drawn from the Qur'an and the traditions of Muhammad and his household, the Ahlulbayt.

He also undertook his early academic education in the United States , finally studying sociology, politics, and philosophy at tertiary level in Australia. Modarresi has criticised the atrocities committed by the Bahraini government against its people namely the Shia , especially after the uprising of Modarresi was also agitated by the West's silence to the situation in Bahrain, and writes in one his articles: [ 7 ].

Imagine the consequences if the western powers had sided with the Hosni Mubarak regime or that of Colonel Gaddafi until the very end Had it not been for Saudi military support and the West's political backing, the truth is that this unelected Al Khalifa regime would have collapsed long ago" Modarresi has also criticised Saudi Arabia and Al Saud for its human right's violations, and even so as to compare the regime to ISIS , claiming the only real difference between ISIS and the Saudi regime is that the latter has 'made it', having secured a seat at the UN and employ an army of flamboyant diplomats and lobbyists roaming the corridors of Westminster Palace and Capitol Hill.

He later authored two more books in Arabic that were published in Beirut.