Ali al-Sabziwari

Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Musawi al-Sabziwari (Arabic: علي الموسوي السبزواري; Persian: على موسوى سبزواراى; b. 1948) is an Iraqi Shia scholar, and the son of Grand Ayatollah Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari.

Al-Sabziwari is a teacher at the al-Sabziwari Mosque in Najaf, and a representative of his late father's marja'iya.

Early life and education

Al-Sabziwari was born to Sayyid Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari, and the daughter of Sayyid Muhammad-Jawad al-Modarresi. He is the second of three sons, and comes from a respectable religious family. His family claim descent from the seventh Shia Imam, Musa ibn Jafar.

He began his religious education at a young age. He completed his studies and reached the level of ijtihad in the seventies. His sotooh 'ulya (intermediary-advanced studies) classes were considered of the most importance in Najaf, in the nineties.

Works

Al-Sabziwari has books in jurisprudence and principles of jurisprudence. Some of them include:

• Kayfa Naqra' al-Quran (How we read the Quran)
• Mabahith Fi al-Manthuma al-Riwa'iya al-Shi'iya (Research in the system of Shia narrations)