Akhbari shia
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Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi
Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric (c.1627 – 1699)
Mohammad Baqer Majlesi (c. 1627 – 29 March 1699) (Persian: علامه مجلسیAllameh Majlesi; also Romanized as: Majlessi, Majlisi, Madjlessi), known as Allamah Majlesi or Majlesi Al-Thani (Majlesi the Second), was an influential Iranian AkhbariTwelverShia scholar and thinker during the Safavid era. He has been described as "one of the most powerful and influential Shi'a ulema of all time", whose "policies and actions reoriented Twelver Shia'ism in the direction that it was to develop from his day on."[1]
He was buried next to his father in a family mausoleum located next to the Jamé Mosque of Isfahan.
Early life and education
Born in Isfahan in 1627, his father, Mulla Mohammad Taqi Majlesi (Majlesi-ye Awwal—Majlesi the First, 1594 -1660), was a cleric of Islamic jurisprudence. The genealogy of his family is at times traced back to Abu Noaym Ahmad ibn Abdallah Esfahani (d. 1038 AD), the author, inter alia, of a History of Isfahan, entitled Zikr-i akhbar-i Isfahan. However, his
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MAJLESI, Moḥammad-Bāqer
MAJLESI, Moḥammad-Bāqer b. Moḥammad-Taqi b. Maqṣud-ʿAli Eṣfahāni, (b. 1627; d. 1699 or 1700), an eminent Twelver Shiʿite jurist in Safavid Iran (1501-1722) and one of the most important hadith scholars of Twelver Shiʿism (Ar. Eṯna ʿAšariya; Emāmiya). He is often referred to as Majlesi-e ṯāni, or Majlesi-e dowwom (Majlesi II), while his father Moḥammad-Taqi Majlesi (b. 1594-95; d. 1659-60) , who was a significant theologian in his own right, is known as Majlesi-ye Awwal (Majlesi I). He is also known as ʿAllāma-ye Majlesi or al-ʿAllāma (e.g., Baḥrāni, p. 55; cf. Davāni, 1991), Mollā Majlesi (e.g., Tonokāboni, 1992, p. 220; Zanuzi, IV, p. 237), and Āḵund Majlesi (e.g., Jazi, p. 117). Majlesi’s reputation among the ulema (ʿālem, pl.ʿolamāʾ “religious scholar”) rests primarily upon his monumental hadith encyclopedia Beḥār al-anwār in which he rearranged the entire corpus of Twelver Shiʿite traditions. Beyond the realm of theology and hadith, Majlesi wielded an unprecedented degree of political po
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ALLAMA MOHAMMED BAQIR MAJLISI Ulamaa index Shrine pictures
Mohammed Baqir Majlisi ibn e Mohammed Taqi Majlisi
Born : Isfahan, Iran in 1037H (1616 A.D.)
Died : Isfahan, 1111 H (1690 A.D) at age 77 years
Siblings: Mulla Aziz Allah, Mulla Abd Allah; both brothers Mujtahids of much erudition.His sisters too were ladies of erudition.
His disciples: Allama Majlisi’s prominent disciples were Sayed Nemat Allah Jazairi, Mirza Abd Allah Effindi, Mulla Abd Allah Ardbeli, Mulla Muhammad bin Hassan Isfahani, Mulla Mohammed Hussain Bin Yahya Noori.
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