Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi
(1942-)
Pakistani Ayatollah And Marja Al-Taqlid
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Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi (Arabic: آية الله العظمى بشير النجفي) (born 1942) is a Twelver Shia Marja' and one of the Big Four Grand Ayatollahs of Najaf, Iraq. He was born in Jalandhar, a city in then British India. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, his family moved to Pakistan and settled in the city of Gujranwala, Punjab. In Gujranwala he had his initial education in religion. He was then able to move to Iraq for studies in the early 1960s. He is one of many individuals from South Asia and one of the few Pakistanis to have ever been elevated to the highest rank of Grand Ayatollah in Shia Islam. He was one year senior to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
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1942 (age 83) - Jalandhar, India
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