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• Abbas Vaez Tabasi
• Abbasali Amid Zanjani
  Abbasali Amid Zanjani
  Ayatollah Abbasali Amid Zanjani was an Iranian politician and cleric. He was the only cleric president of University of Tehran, served from 2005 to 2008. -Early life:...
  
   (1937-..)
• Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
  Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
  Sayyed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim was an Iraqi theologian and politician and the leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a party that enjoys approximately 5% support in the Iraqi Council of Representatives....
  
   (1953–2009)
• Abdul Karim Mousavi Ardebili (1926-..)
• Abdullah Yusuf Ali
  Abdullah Yusuf Ali
  Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf Ali, CBE, FRSL was an Indian Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English. His translation of the Qur'an is one of the most widely-known and used in the English-speaking world....
  
    (1872-..)
• Abdollah Noori
  Abdollah Noori
  Abdollah Noori is an Iranian reformist politician and cleric. Despite his "long history of service to the Islamic Republic," he became the most senior Islamic politician to be sentenced to prison since the Iranian Revolution when he was sentenced to five years in prison for political and religious...
  
  
• Abdolhossein Moezi
  Abdolhossein Moezi
  Ayatollah Abdolhosein Moezi ‎‎ is an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer, and politician. ‎He was born in Tehran, Iran. He was the personal representative of Grand ‎Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Vienna and also the ‎Head of the Imam Ali Islamic Centre in Vienna until 2004...
  
  
• Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari (1954-..)
• Ahmad Jannati
  Ahmad Jannati
  Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati Massah is a hardline Iranian politician, fundamentalist Shi'i cleric and a founding member of Haghani school with close ties with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mesbah-Yazdi...
  
   (1926-..)
• Ahmad Khatami
  Ahmad Khatami
  Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami is a senior Iranian Ayatollah, as well as a senior member of the Assembly of Experts. In December of 2005, Ali Khamenei appointed him as Tehran’s substitute Friday prayer leader.He was born in the town of Nīr, Northern Iran...
  
  
• Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur
  Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur
  Hojatoleslam Ali-Akbar Mohtashamipur or Mohtashemi is a Twelver Shia Hojatoleslam cleric who was active in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and later became interior minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran He is "seen as a founder of the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon" and one of the "radical .....
  
  
• Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri
• Ali al-Sistani (1930-..)
• Ali Fallahian
  Ali Fallahian
  Hojatoleslam Ali Fallahian, is an Iranian politician and cleric. He has served as a member of the 3rd Assembly of Experts of the IRI and as the Minister of Intelligence of Islamic Republic of Iran in cabinet of President Hashemi Rafsanjani...
  
   (1945-..)
• Ali Meshkini
  Ali Meshkini
  Ayatollah Ali Akbar Feyz Meshkini was an Iranian hardline cleric and politician.-Life:Meshkini was an Iranian Azerbaijani born in a village near Meshkinshahr and the Sabalan mountain. He was born as Āli, but preferred the pronounciaton, Ali during his career. He succeeded Ayatollah Montazeri as...
  
  
• Ali Khamenei
  Ali Khamenei
  Ayatollah Seyed Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i is the Supreme Leader of Iran and the figurative head of the Muslim conservative establishment in Iran and Twelver Shi'a marja...
  
   (1939-..)
• Ali Salman
  Ali Salman
  Ali Salman is the president of the Al-Wefaq political society in Bahrain. He is a Twelver Shi'a cleric educated in Qom. In January 1995 the Bahraini government forcibly exiled him to Dubai for leading a popular campaign demanding the reinstatement of the constitution and the restoration of...
  
  
• Ali Younesi
  Ali Younesi
  Hojatoleslam Ali Younesi was the director of the Ministry of Intelligence and a member of the Supreme National Security Council during the presidency Mohammad Khatami in Iran....
  
  Allama Muztar Abbasi (Born 1931 in Murree - Died 26th Feb. 2004 in Islamabad) was a Pakistani Muslim scholar belonged to the Dhund Abbasi tribe of the Murree Hills and Abbottabad District. He was a patron of Esperanto language in Pakistan. He was patron in chief Pakistan Esperanto Association (PakEsA). He translated the Quraan into Esperanto and wrote a biography of Muhammad.

• Abdul Hamid Muhajir
• Allama Aqeel Turabi
• Almodarresi Sayed Mahdi
• Ammar al-Hakim
  Ammar al-Hakim
  Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim is an Iraqi politician who leads the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, which was the largest party in Iraq's Council of Representatives from the 2003 Invasion of Iraq until the 2010 Iraqi elections....
  
  
• Ammar Nakshawani (1981-..)
• Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Qumi
  Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Qumi
  Ayatollah Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi, born 1970 is one of the ayatollahs of Pakistan. His father, Allama Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi, was the principal of Hawza Elmiye Jamia-tul-Muntazar Lahore, the largest Shia madrasah in Pakistan.-Early life and early education:Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi was born in 9 May...
  
   (1970-..)
• Aqeel-ul-Gharavi
  Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi
  Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi is a leading Shia scholar and community activist of India. He is also a professor at Hauz-e-Ilmiya Jamiat-us-Saqalain, Delhi. During early 1990s he was principal of this Hauza. and co-supervisor of Safinatul Hidaya Trust, Batla House, Okhla, Delhi...
  
   (1964-..)
• Bashir Najafi
  Ayatollah Bashir Najafi
  Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi is one of the six Grand Ayatollahs in Iraq. He was born in Jalandhar, a city in then British India. After the division of British India in 1947, his family moved to Pakistan and settled in the city of Gujranwala. In Gujranwala he had his initial...
  
  
• Allama Syed Fida Hussain Bukhari
• Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei
  Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei
  Hojjatol-Islam Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i was the head of the Ministry of Intelligence in Iran from 2005 to July 2009, when he was abruptly dismissed. On August 24, 2009 he was appointed prosecutor general of the country by new judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani. He has also held a number...
  
  
• Gholamreza Rezvani
  Gholamreza Rezvani
  Ayatollah Gholamreza Rezvani is a member of the powerful Council of Guardians in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He believes in literal interpretation of Quran, hadith, and sunnah and has argued that there is "no substitute" for stoning adulterers.-See also:...
  
  
• Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
  Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
  Ayatollah Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi is an Iranian politician and cleric, previously the Minister of Intelligence of Islamic Republic of Iran...
  
  
• Hadi al-Modarresi
  Hadi al-Modarresi
  Ayatollah Sayed Hadi Almodarresi or al-Modarresi - Early life :Born to a family with a long line of top-ranking scholars that dominated the Hawza for many years in Karbala, Iraq...
  
  
• Hadi Al-Qazwini (1985-..)
• Hadi Khamenei
  Hadi Khamenei
  Hojatoleslam Hadi Khamenei is an influential Iranian reformist politician, mojtahed and linguist. He is a key member of the reformist Association of Combatant Clerics, and a former deputy of the Majlis of Iran representing a district in Tehran....
  
  
• Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi http://www.tnfj.org.pk (1940-..)
• Hassan Al-Qazwini
  Hassan Al-Qazwini
  Hassan Al-Qazwini is the leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, largest mosque in North America, representing the Twelver Shi'a branch of Islam.- Family :...
  
   (1964-..)
• Hassan Nasrallah
  Hassan Nasrallah
  Hasan Nasrallah, became the third Secretary General of the Lebanese political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah after Israel assassinated the previous leader, Abbas al-Musawi, in 1992. Hezbollah in its entirety is considered a terrorist organization by The United States, the Netherlands,...
  
   (1960-..)
• Hassan Rowhani
  Hassan Rowhani
  Hassan Rowhani is an Iranian politician and cleric, and as of March 2007, a member of the Supreme National Security Council. Rowhani's membership in the council is as one of the two representatives of the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran...
  
  
• Hassan Sane'i
  Hassan Sane'i
  Hojatoleslam Hassan Sane'i is a governmental official of Iran who is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He is also the president of the 15-Khordad Foundation, a quasi-governmental foundation....
  
  
• Hossein Al-Qazwini (1982-..)
• Hossein-Ali Montazeri
• Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi
  Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi
  Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi is an Iranian Shia Muslim cleric who advocates the separation of religion and government and has been imprisoned several times by the Iranian government....
  
  
• Hossein Noori Hamedani
  Hossein Noori Hamedani
  Grand Ayatollah Hosein Nuri-Hamadani is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. Nuri-Hamadani has been called a "hard-line cleric," who has expressed his strong disapproval of Sufis and dervishes, Jews, the intellectual Abdolkarim Soroush and the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...
  
   (1926-..)
• Hossein Vahid Khorasani
  Hossein Vahid Khorasani
  Grand Ayatollah Hossein Vahid Khorasani is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja. He was born in Nishapur, Iran and moved to Najaf, Iraq in 1960 and studied in seminaries of Grand Ayatollah Khoei until he moved back to Iran in 1972 and currently resides and teaches in the Seminary of Qom, Iran. He is...
  
   (1924-..)
• Husain Mohammad Jafri
  Husain Mohammad Jafri
  Syed Husain Mohammad Jafri, is the Chairman of Islamic Pakistan Study Centre, Aga Khan University of Karachi, Pakistan. He remained Director of the Pakistan Study Centre, University of Karachi and holds two Ph.D. degrees.-References:...
  
  
• Hussein Mustafa Parmar
• Ibrahim Amini Najafabadi (1925-..)
• Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir
  Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir
  Sheikh Jalal al-Din Ali al-Sagheer is an Iraqi politician and a former member of parliament in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. The Daily Telegraph, 2005-01-29, accessed on 2007-07-03...
  
  
• Javad Gharavi Aliari
  Javad Gharavi Aliari
  Grand Ayatollah Javad Gharavi Aliari is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He was born in Tabriz, Iran. He migrated to Najaf to study in Grand Ayatollah al-Khoei's seminaries. He currently teaches in the Seminary of Tehran, Iran. He is seen as being close to Iranian reformists.-See also:*Grand...
  
   (1935-..)
• Kalbe Jawad Naqvi
• Kazem al-Haeri
  Kazem al-Haeri
  Grand Ayatollah Kazem Husseini Haeri is a prominent Twelver Shi'a marja. Haeri was born in Iran, but moved to Iraq to lead the Twelver Shi'a community there. He was a top leader of the Al-Da'wa Party in Iraq...
  
   (1938-..)
• Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani
  Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani
  Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja. He was born in Golpaygan, Iran. He has studied in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi. He currently resides and teaches in the Seminary of Qom, Iran....
  
   (1920-..)
• Mahdi al-Modarresi
  Mahdi al-Modarresi
  Sayyed Mohammad Mahdi Al-Husseini Almodarresi.Sayed Mohammad Mahdi was born into the family of ‘Master of Martyrs’ Imam Hussain, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.Sayed Mahdi is from the city of Karbala....
  
   (1977-..)
• Majead Ansari
  Majead Ansari
  Majead Ansari , also spelled Majid Ansari is an Iranian politician and cleric....
  
  
• Mansour Leghaei
  Mansour Leghaei
  Dr Sheikh Mansour Leghaei is the founder and a director of the Imam Husain Islamic Centre and the School of Islamic Theology in Earlwood, Australia, serving as the imam from 1997-2010...
  
  
• Maulana Syed Mohammad Al-Husaini Al-Banarasi (1931)
• Maulana Syed Hamidul Hasan
  Maulana Syed Hamidul Hasan
  Maulana Syed Hamidul Hasan is a Shia alim of Lucknow, India. He has been giving religious lectures in India and abroad, especially during the Muslim month of Muharram, for the last 30 years...
  
  
• Mehdi Swalif
• Mohammad al-Tijani
• Mohammad Ali Abtahi
  Mohammad Ali Abtahi
  Hojjat ol-Eslam Seyyed Mohammad Ali Abtahi is an Iranian theologian, scholar, pro-democracy activist and chairman of the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue. He is a former Vice President of Iran and a close associate of former President Mohammad Khatami...
  
   (1960-..)
• Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri
  Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri
  Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri is an Iranian ayatollah and diplomat. During the 1980s Taskhiri served as the Iranian representative to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and was involved in promoting Iranian interests during the height of the Iran–Iraq War.His role, while always significant in the...
  
  
• Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati
  Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati
  Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja. He has studied in seminaries of Qom and Najaf under Grand Ayatollahs Borujerdi and Khomeini...
  
   (1933-..)
• Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum
  Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum
  Ayatollah Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum is a prominent Twelver Shi'a Islamic leader and politician in Iraq.Father of Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum, Oil Minister of Iraq from September 2003 to June 2004, and again during 2005....
  
   (1923-..)
• Mohammed Burhanuddin
  Mohammed Burhanuddin
  Doctor Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin is the 52nd Dā‘ī l-Muṭlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras. The Dawoodi Bohras are a sub group within the Mustaali, Ismaili Shia branch of Islam.- Biography :Burhanuddin was born in Surat, Gujarat, India...
  
  
• Mohammad Hussain Najafi (1932-..)
• Mohammad Hussein AlAnsari (1952-..)
• Mohammad AlQazwini (1963-..)
• Mohammad Emami Kashani (1917-..)
• Mohammad Ishaq Al-Fayyad
  Mohammad Ishaq Al-Fayyad
  Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ishaq al-Fayyad is currently the second most senior Shi'a marja living in Iraq after Ali al-Sistani....
  
   (1930-..)
• Mohammad Ismaeil Shooshtari
  Esmail Shooshtari
  Hojjat al-Islam Mohammad Ismaeil Shooshtari was the Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran for 1997-2005.He used to be in the Majles of Iran....
  
   (1949-..)
• Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
  Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
  Ayatollah Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha is an Iranian cleric and secretary general of the reformist Association of Combatant Clerics. He was a founder of the now banned Salam newspaper and is a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.-Overview:Khoeiniha was prosecutor general of Iran after...
  
  
• Mohammad Reyshahri
  Mohammad Reyshahri
  Mohammad Reyshahri , best known as Reyshahri, is an Iranian politician and cleric who was first Iranian Minister of Intelligence of Islamic Republic of Iran from 1984 to 1989 in cabinet of Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi.-Biography:Reyshahri was born in Rey.He married the daughter of Ayatollah...
  
  
• Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani
  Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani
  Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani is an Iranian cleric, conservative politician and writer and current Chairman of the Assembly of Experts....
  
  
• Mohammad Reza Tavassoli
  Mohammad Reza Tavassoli
  Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Tavassoli was an influential Iranian theologian, reformist politician, and a close associate of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini....
  
  
• Muhammad Rizvi
  Muhammad Rizvi
  Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi is a Twelver Shī‘ah scholar, a speaker, as well as an author. He is the second-born son of Sa‘eed Akhtar Rizvi.-Biography:...
  
   (1957-..)
• Mohammad Saeed Al-Hakim (1936-..)
• Mohammad Shahroudi
  Mohammad Shahroudi
  Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Shahroudi was born in Najaf, Iraq. He is an Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja He was taught the preliminary the lessons of the seminary studies by his father, Shaykh Ali Al-Shahrbabaki. Since 1963, he has been delivering lectures in the Islamic Seminary of Qom.-References:...
  
   (1925-..)
• Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
  Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
  Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi is a hardline Iranian Twelver Shi'i cleric and politician who is widely seen as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's spiritual advisor. He is also a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for choosing the Supreme Leader, where he heads...
  
   (1934-..)
• Muhammed Hussaini (aka Dubba)
• Mohammad Yaqubi
  Ayatollah Mohammad Yaqubi
  Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Yaqubi is an influential Iraqi Twelver Shi'a cleric. He is one of the leaders of the influential Shi'a organization Hawza, headed by Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. He was a close companion of Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr.-References:...
  
  
• Mohammad Yazdi
  Mohammad Yazdi
  Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdii is an Iranian cleric who served as the head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999, following Ayatollah Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili and succeeded by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi....
  
  
• Mohsen Araki
  Mohsen Araki
  Ayatollah Sheikh Mohsen Araki is an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer, and politician. He is a former member of the Assembly of Experts in Iran, and a prominent Iranian cleric and one of the students of the Islamic thinker Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr.-Life:He was born in...
  
   (1956-..)
• Mohsen Kadivar
  Mohsen Kadivar
  Mohsen Kadivar is an Iranian philosopher, University lecturer, cleric and activist. A political dissident, Kadivar has been a vocal critic of the doctrine of clerical rule, also known as Velayat-e Faqih , and a strong advocate of democratic and liberal reforms in Iran...
  
   (1959-..)
• Moslem Malakouti (1923-..)
• Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi
  Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi
  Hojatoll-Islam Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi is a politician in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2005, he was appointed as the new interior minister of the country by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the approval of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
  
  
• Mousa Shubairi Zanjani
  Mousa Shubairi Zanjani
  Grand Ayatollah Mousa Shubairi Zanjani is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He was born in Qom, Iran. He has studied in the seminaries of Qom under Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi and Mohaqeq Damad. He currently resides and teaches in the Seminary of Qom, Iran...
  
   (1927-..)
• Murtaza Alidina (1964-...)
• Muqtada al-Sadr
  Muqtada al-Sadr
  Sayyid Muqtadā al-Ṣadr is an Iraqi Islamic political leader.Along with Ali al-Sistani and Ammar al-Hakim of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Sadr is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.-Titles:He is...
  
   (1973-..)
• Naser Makarem Shirazi
  Naser Makarem Shirazi
  Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi is an ayatollah in Iran. He is a spiritual guide for many Shia Muslims.-In Iran:He started his formal Islamic studies at the age of 14 in the Agha Babakhan Shirazi seminary....
  
   (1927-..)
• Reza Ostadi
  Reza Ostadi
  Ayatollah Reza Ostadi Moghadam is a member of the Expediency Discernment Council and the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran...
  
  
• Sadeq Rohani
  Sadeq Rohani
  Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Sadeq Hussaini Rohani is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja currently residing in Qum, Iran. He was born in the city of Qum, Iran during Muharram 1345 AH, equivalent to 1305 HS or the summer of 1926 AD...
  
   (1926-..)
• Sayed Muhammad Jafar Kharazmi (1970-..)
• Sayed Mohammad Jawad Al-Qazwini
• Sadeq Shirazi
• Syed Naveed Asghar Shamsi (1960)
• Yousef Sanei (1927-..)

10th century

• al-Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub (??-941)
• al-Mufid (948-1022)
• al-Murtadha
  Sharif al-Murtaza
  Abu al-Qāsim ‘Alī ibn Husayn al-Sharīf al-Murtadhā was one of the greatest scholars of his time and was one of the students of Shaykh al-Mufīd...
  
   (965-1044)
• al-Radhi (970-1015)
• al-Saduq (918-991)
• Qummi, Ali ibn Babwayh
  Ali ibn Babwayh Qummi
  Ali ibn Babawayh Qummi was a Twelver Shi'a scholar from the time of the Ghaybat al-Sughra. He's the father of Shaikh Saduq.He wrote a letter to Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi, asking for prayer for him to have a child, as doctors had told him he could not have one. Thus was always called his son, Shaikh...
  
   (??-940)
• Tusi, Abu Ja‘far
  Shaykh Tusi
  Shaykh Tusi , full name: Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Hassan Tusi , known as Shaykh al-Taʾifah was a prominent Persian scholar of the Shi'a Twelver Islamic belief.-Birth:...
  
   (995-1067)

13th century

• al-Bahrani, Maytham
  Maitham Al Bahrani
  Sheikh Maytham bin Ali Al Bahrani was a leading 13th Century Twelver Shi'a Islamic theologian who lived in Bahrain. Al Bahrani wrote on Twelver doctrine, affirmed free will, the infallibility of prophets and imams, the appointed imamate of `Ali, and the occultation of the Twelfth Imam...
  
   (??-1280)
• al-Hilli, Jamal al-Din Hasan (Allamah)
  Al-Hilli
  Jamal ad-Din Hasan ibn Yusuf ibn 'Ali ibn Muthahhar al-Hilli , also known as al-Allamah al-Hilli , born December 15, 1250 CE , died December 18, 1325, was a Twelver Shia theologian and mujtahid. Known as a Marja , he was one of the greatest Muslim jurists and scholars of his time...
  
   (1250–1325)
• Tusi, Nasir al-Din (1201–1274)

16th century

• Shirazi, Sadr al-Din Muhammad (Mullah Sadra)
  Mulla Sadra
  Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī also called Mulla Sadrā was a Persian Shia Islamic philosopher, theologian and ‘Ālim who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century...
  
   (1571–1640)

17th century

• al-Āmili, Hur
  Shaikh al-Hur al-Aamili
  Muhammad bin al-Ḥassan b. Ali b. al-Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmili al-Mashghari , commonly known as Al-Ḥurr Al-ʿĀmili , was a muhaddith and a prominent Twelver Shi’a scholar of the Akhbari school of thought...
  
   (1624–1693)
• al-Bahrani, Yusuf
  Yusuf Al Bahrani
  Yusuf ibn Ahmed al-Bahrani was a Bahraini theologian and a key figure in the intellectual development of Twelver Shia Islam.Al-Bahrani grew up in Safavid-ruled Bahrain, at a time of intellectual ferment between Akhbari and Usuli Shi'ah Islam. His family were Usuli clerics who also worked as pearl...
  
   (1695–1772)
• al-Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir (Allamah)
  Allamah al-Majlisi
  Muhammad Baqir Majlesi, known as Allamah Majlesi or Majlesi-ye Thani , was a renowned and very powerful Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric, during the Safavid era...
  
   (1616–1689)
• al-Samahiji, Abdullah
  Abdullah al Samahiji
  Abdullah bin Saleh al Samahiji was a Bahraini Shia Islamic scholar who lived during the Safavid period. He was born in the village of Samaheej on Muharraq Island, and like many of his Bahraini contemporaries, he was a follower of the Akhbari theological school—although his father was a pure...
  
   (1675–1723)
• Asterabadi, Muhammad Baqir (Mir Damad)
  Mir Damad
  Mir Damad , known also as Mir Mohammad Baqer Esterabadi, or Asterabadi, was an Iranian philosopher in the Neoplatonizing Islamic Peripatetic traditions of Avicenna and Suhrawardi, a scholar of the traditional Islamic sciences, and foremost figure , of the cultural renaissance of Iran undertaken...
  
   (??-1631)

18th century

• Behbahani, Muhammad Baqir
  Muhammad Baqir Behbahani
  Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Akmal al-Wahid Bihbahani, also Vahid Behbahani , was a Twelver Shia Islamic scholar. He is widely regarded as the founder or restorer of the Usuli school of Twelver Shi'a Islam and as playing a vital role in narrowing the field of orthodoxy in Twelver Shi'a Islam by...
  
   (1706–1792)

19th century

• al-Ansari, Murtada (??-1864)
• al-Hakim, Muhsin (1889–1970)
• al-Khoei, Abul Qasim (1899–1992)
• al-Sadr, Haydar
  Haydar al-Sadr
  Ayatollah Haydar al-Sadr was born in Samarra, Iraq. His father, Ismail as-Sadr was a Grand Ayatollah and the first to be use the as-Sadr surname, which came to be associated with a long line of religious scholarship within Shia Islam...
  
   (1891–1937)
• al-Sadr, Ismail
  Ismail as-Sadr
  Ismail as-Sadr was a Lebanese Grand Ayatollah , a title which is used in Iran and Iraq referring to a Twelver Shi'a scholar who is a fully qualified mujtahid who asserts authority over peers and followers by virtue of sufficient study and achievement of the level of necessary competencey needed...
  
   (??-1920)
• Araki, Muhammad Ali
  Mohammad Ali Araki
  Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Araki Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Araki Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Araki (1889 in Arak – November 24, 1994 in Qom was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja.Ayatullah Araki began his Hawza studies in Arak, and was the student of many prominent scholars during this time,...
  
   (1895–1994)
• Arbab, Rahim
  Rahim Arbab
  Ayatollah-al-ozma Haj Agha Rahim Arbab was born in Chermaheen in Iran, near Shahre Kord, to a family of scholars.Ayatollah-al-ozma is the highest rank in traditional Twelver Shi'a studies. Ayatollah Arbab is among three Ayatollahs who never wore the traditional turban...
  
   (1874-??)
• Borujerdi, Husayn (1875–1962)
• Golpaygani, Muhammad Reza
  Mohammad Reza Golpaygani
  Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Golpaygani was a Twelver Shia Muslim cleric and marja. he was born in Gogad village, near the city of Golpaygan, Iran. He was taught preliminary studies by his father, Mohammad Bagher. At the age of 9, his father died, and he moved to Golpaygan to continue his...
  
   (1898–1993)
• Hasan, Najmul (1863–1938)
• Kashani, Abul Qasim
  Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani
  Ayatollah Seyyed Abol-Ghasem Mostafavi Kashani was a prominent Twelver Shi'a Muslim cleric and former Parliament Speaker of Iran.-Early life:...
  
   (1884–1961)
• Khorasani, Muhammad Kazim (1839–1911)
• Modarres, Hasan
  Hassan Modarres
  Seyyed Hassan Modarres , was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric and a notable supporter of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. He was among the founding members, along with Abdolhossein Teymourtash, of the reformist party Hezb-e Eslaah-talab of the time, which was formed during the fourth...
  
   (1870–1937)
• Naqvi, Najafi, Syed Safdar Hussain
  Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi
  Maulana Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi was a great scholar and leader of Islam.-Family & Childhood:Maulana Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi was born in 1932 at Alipur, a tehsil of Muzaffargarh District in the Panjab province of Pakistan. He is the son of Syed Ghulam Sarwar Naqvi from a well known Naqvi Syed...
  
   (1932–1989)
• Roshdieh, Hasan (1851–1944)
• Shirazi, Abdullah (1892–1984)
• Shirazi, Mirza Hasan (1814–1896)
• Shirazi, Sultanu'l-Wa'izin
  Sultanu'l-Wa'izin Shirazi
  Sultanu l-Wa'izin Shirazi is the Shi'a scholar portrayed in the book Peshawar Nights .Sultanu l-Wa'izin Shirazi was born in Tehran on 12 May 1894...
  
   (1894–1971)
• Tabatabaei, Muhammad Husayn (1892–1981)
• Tabrizi, Mir-Fatah-Agha
  Mir-Fatah-Agha
  Mir-Fatah-Agha commonly known as Mushthaid was a high-ranking Twelver Shi'a Muslim cleric from Tabriz , whom the Russian government credited with keeping the population of Iranian Azerbaijan loyal to the brief Russian occupation of the territory during the second Russian-Persian war of...
  
   (??-1892)
• Yazdi, Abdul Karim Haeri (1859–1937)
• Yazdi, Mahdi Puya
  Mahdi Puya
  Ayatullah Agha Hajji Mirza Mahdi Puya Yazdi was a Twelver Shia Muslim and an Islamic scholar, most notable for his famous tafsir of the Qur'an...
  
   (1899–1973)

20th century

• Hazrat Mubaligh-e-Azam Moulana Mohammad Ismael, (Wakeel e Aal-e- Mohammad, Wakeel-e-Zahra, Sultan-un-Munazireen) (1901-1976)
• Abaee-Khurasani, Muhammad Va'ez (1940–2004)
• al-Hakim, Muhammad Baqir
  Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim
  Ayatollah Sayed Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim , also known as Shaheed al-Mehraab was one of the foremost Twelver Shi'a Muslim leaders in Iraq until his assassination in a bombing in Najaf...
  
   (1939–2003)
• al-Jamri, Abdul Amir
  Abdul Amir al-Jamri
  Sheikh Abdul Amir al-Jamri was the 'spiritual leader' of Bahrain's Twelver Shi'a population and the 1990s Intifada. He is the father of Mansoor Al-Jamri, editor-in-chief of the Al Wasat daily newspaper.- Biography :...
  
   (1937–2006)
• al-Khoei, Abdul Majid
  Abdul Majid al-Khoei
  Sayyid Abdul Majid al-Khoei , 16 August 1962 – 10 April 2003) was a Twelver Shia cleric and the son of Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sayyid Abul Qasim al-Khoei. He was born in the holy city of Najaf.-Life:...
  
   (1962–2003)
• al-Musawi, Abbas
  Abbas al-Musawi
  Abbas al-Musawi was an influential Shia cleric and co-founder and Secretary General of Hezbollah. He was killed by Israeli forces in 1992.Al-Musawi was born in the village of al-Nabi Shayth in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon....
  
   (1952–1992)
• Allama Maulana Mustafa Hussain Ansari (1945-2006)Allama Mustafa Hussain Ansari
• al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir (1935–1980)
• al-Sadr, Muhammad Sadiq (??-1999)
• al-Sadr, Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq
  Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
  Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr , often referred to as Muhammad Sadiq as-Sadr which is his father's name, was a prominent Iraqi Twelver Shi'a cleric of the rank of Grand Ayatollah. He called for government reform and the release of detained Shi'a leaders...
  
   (1943–1999)
• al-Sadr, Musa
  Musa al-Sadr
  For the Twelver Shī‘ah Imām, see Mūsá al-KāżimMūsá aṣ-Ṣadr , also Musā-ye Sader and Moussa Sadr), was an Iranian-Lebanese philosopher and Shī‘ah religious leader who disappeared in August 1978...
  
   (1929–1978)
• al-Sadr, Sadr al-Din (??–1954)
• al-Waeli, Ahmed
  Ahmed Al-Waeli
  Ahmed Al-Waeli is one of the most well-known Shi'a Islamic prominent clerks in the twentieth century. He preached the Islamic thoughts through books and lectures. He is also a poet. His poems represent his personality, spirituality and belief....
  
   (1928–2003)
• akhtar,Syed Ali (1948-2002)
• Bahonar, Muhammad Javad (1933–1981)
• Beheshti, Muhammad (1928–1981)
• Fadhlullah, Muhammad Husayn (1935–2010)
• Fazil, Muhammad Ali
• Feiz, Muhammad Reza
• Foumani, Muhammad Taghi Bahjat
  Mohammad Taghi Bahjat Foumani
  Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Bahjat Foumani was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja with political and social views close to fundamentalist schools. He was a student of the famous mystic, Sayed Ali Qadhi Tabatabaei, and also a student of Abulhasan Isfahani and Mirza Naini...
  
   (1913–2009)
• Khalkhali, Sadegh (1927–2003)
• Khomeini, Ruhullah
  Ruhollah Khomeini
  Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran...
  
   (1900–1989)
• Lankarani, Muhammad Fazel (1931–2007)
• Motahhari, Morteza
  Morteza Motahhari
  Ayatollah Murtaza Motahhari was an Iranian scholar, cleric, lecturer, and politician.Motahhari is considered among the important influences on the ideologies of the Islamic Republic, and was a co-founder of Hosseiniye Ershad and the Combatant Clergy Association...
  
   (1920–1979)
• Naqvi, Ali Naqi
  Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi
  Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Naqi Naqvi , also known as Naqqan , was a mujtahid from Lucknow, India who graduated from Najaf, Iraq...
  
   (1905–1988)
• Rizvi, Sa'id Akhtar
  Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi
  Sayyid Sa‘eed Akhtar Rizvi was an Indian born, Twelver Shī‘ah scholar, who actively promoted Islam in East Africa.He spoke Urdu, English, Arabic, Persian, Swahili and knew Hindi and Gujrati....
  
   (1927–2002)
• Shamseddine, Muhammad Mehdi
  Mohammad Mehdi Shamseddine
  Aytollah Muhammad Mahdi Shamseddine is a famous Twelver Shia Islam scholar of Lebanon from Kabrikha probably a compound name kabr-ikha: the tomb of ikha] in Jabal Amel in the southern part of the country...
  
   (1936–2001)
• Shariatmadari, Kazem (1904–1985)
• Shirazi, Muhammad (1928–2001)
• Tabrizi, Mirza Javad  (1926–2006)
• Taleghani, Mahmoud
  Mahmoud Taleghani
  Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani was an Iranian theologian, humanist, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shi'a cleric of Iran. Taleghani was a contemporary of the Iranian Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and a leader in his own right of Iran's Shi'a resistance movement...
  
   (1911–1979)
• Turabi, Allamah Rasheed
  Allamah Rasheed Turabi
  Allamah Rasheed Turabi was an Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, poet and philosopher. He was born on 9th Jamadi-us-Sani 1326 / July 9, 1908 in Hyderabad, India....
  
   (1908–1973)

Unsorted

• Lucknavi, Syed Ali Imam zaidi "Gauhar" (Great Grand son of Mir Baber Ali Anees)
• Musavi, Hamid Husayn
  Hamid Hussain
  Ayatollah Sayyid Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi Kintoori Lakhnavi , was a leading Shia scholar of his time in India...
  
  
• ibn Salih, Sadr al-Din
• Mazandarani, Muhammad Salih
• Naqvi, Aqa Hasan
  Aqa Hasan
  Maulana Syed Aqa Hasan Naqvi was a mujtahid from Lucknow, India who preached Twelver Shi'a Islam and came from a family of scholars known as "Khandaan-e-Ijtehad"...
  
  
• Naqvi, Kalbe Abid
  Kalbe Abid
  Maulana Syed Kalbe Abid Naqvi was a mujtahid from Lucknow, India who preached Shia Islam and came from a family of scholars known as "Khandaan-e-Ijtehad", notably Syed Dildar Ali Nasirabadi, also known as Ghufran Ma'ab. His father was Syed Kalbe Hussain and grandfather Syed Aqa Hasan...
  
  
• Naqvi, Kalbe Husayn
  Syed Kalbe Hussain
  Maulana Syed Kalbe Hussain Naqvi nicknamed "Kabban" was a mujtahid from Lucknow, India who preached Twelver Shi'a Islam and came from a family of scholars known as "Khandaan-e-Ijtehad", notably Syed Dildar Ali Nasirabadi, also known as Ghufran Ma'ab. His father was Maulana Syed Aqa Hasan...
  
  
• Razwy, Ali Asghar
• Rizvi, Syed Mohsin Nawab [1911-1969]