Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani (Arabic: السيد علي الحسيني السيستاني‎ Persian: سید علی حسینی سیستانی, born August 4, 1930) is the ...

His Eminence the supreme religious authority Sayed al-Sistani, received the Iraqi doctor Dr. Mohammed Abu Ragheef al-Mousawi ...

Tellingly, it was Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, universally acknowledged as the most venerable and authoritative, who was too busy. Whether the stated reason was genuine or it was a deliberate ...

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In the aftermath of the fall of Mosul to ISIS in June 2014 and following a fatwa issued by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a new militia umbrella group, al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces ...

But the office of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, ...

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Ifta, Egypt's official body for issuing religious edicts, announced Friday that Saturday, 1 March, will mark the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in the Hijri year 1446.

But the Iranian model of government - a theocratic state - is not supported by Shi’ism’s most senior Islamic cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani who is based in the Iraqi city of Najaf.

He added Brahimi had already met heads of most of the major political groups in Iraq, and would shortly have talks with the leader of the majority Shiite community, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

On Higher Shiite Authority Ali al-Sistani's statements two months ago on the need to limit the possession of arms to the state, al-Assadi said: “He was not referring to the resistance factions.” ...