Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati

Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati (Persian: محمد ابراهيم جناتی ‎‎, born 1933 in Shahrood, Iran) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja. He has studied in seminaries of Qom and Najaf under Grand Ayatollahs Borujerdi and Khomeini. He is known for his progressive fatwas on women and youth issues, such as:

• Allowing women to be an Islamic judge, and Marja
• Allowing youth to get married (see Nikah Mut'ah) without parental permission
• Unlike conservative Shias, he declares all humans, including kafirs naturally clean
• Allowing betting on horse racing and archery competition; also considers playing with gambling devices allowable, if money is not involved
• Allows playing backgammon, cards and chess, if it is done for mental exercise, entertainment or improving mathematical ability, in all of this the game should not be played for a thing to be won or lost by either side or else it would be forbidden.
• Allows Muslim men to marry non-Muslim yet religious women.
• Allows Muslims to consume non-halal meats provided by non-Muslims yet religious groups such as Christians and Jews.
• Allows Muslim men to shake hands with non-Muslim women if avoiding shaking hands is a bad habit in that culture or makes Islam to be viewed badly.
• Allowing woman to hold a judicial position provided she bears all necessary conditions.
• Women dancing for Women and men for men in Wedding ceremonies and Happiness is no problem.

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Rare rulings:"

• If the loss of a Muslim man with a non-Muslim woman is essential and leave it caused Muslim outrage and insult to Islam or may not pessimism, there is no problem.
• Muslim man marrying a girl or woman from books such as Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian is permitted, either on a temporary or permanent basis.
• Relations between girls and boys, women and men, strangers in the community, if not corruption and to preserve Islamic law and to the extent that is necessary, not a hindrance.
• It is necessary for women to cover their whole bodies from strangers except for the face and hands. No special kind and color of dress is recommended; anything with which the body can be covered would be sufficient.