Muhsin al-Hakim
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| Name: | Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim |
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| School/tradition: | Shi'a Twelver |
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhsin al-Tabataba'i al-Hakim (1889-1970) (Arabic: أية الله سيد محسن الحكيم) was born into a family, the Tabatabai, renowned for its scholarship. He was always in the forefront to defend Islam and Muslims. He became the sole Marja in 1961 after the death of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Husayn Borujerdi.
The hawza of Najaf grew immensely under his Marjaiyya. His historic fatwa, branding communism as kufr and atheism proved the beginning of the end of communism in Iraq.
His son Abdul Aziz al-Hakim is the leader of SCIRI the largest political party in Iraq.
He was buried in the great and modern library he had established.
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