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Sayyid Muhammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
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Sayyid Muhammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
Born1322 Sh/1943-44
Shushtar, Iran

Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Mūsawī Jazāyirī (Persian: سید محمدعلی موسوی جزایری) is a Shi'a Faqih and Usuli of the 15th/21st century.[1] Jazayeri was the former Imam Jumu'a of Ahvaz (1361/1982 – 1397 Sh/2019),[2] the representative of Imam Khomeini (1361/1982 – 1368 Sh/1989)[3] and Sayyid Ali Khamenei (1368/1989 – 1397 Sh/2019) in Khuzestan province,[4] and a member of the Assembly of Experts for Constitution (1358 Sh/1979).[5] He has also been the representative of the people in the Assembly of Experts for six consecutive terms (since 1358 Sh/1979)[6] and the head of Khuzestan Seminaries (since 1398 Sh/2019).[7] He is a faithful defender of Wilayat al-Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist) and, according to himself, was the first person to propose the principle of Wilayat al-Faqih in the Assembly of Experts for Constitution.[8]

It is stated that he revived the Seminary of Ahvaz and confirmed several seminaries for brothers and sisters in this city.[9] He is also the endower (Waqif) and custodian of the Amir al-Mu'minin (a) Seminary in Najaf.[10] Jazayeri played an active role in the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the Iran-Iraq War (in the Supreme Council of War).[11] His works include the books Taḥrir al-uṣul and a treatise on justice and fasting.[12]


Jazayeri, who is a descendant of Sayyid Ni'mat Allah al-Jaza'iri, was born in 1322 Sh/1943-44 in Shushtar.[13] He began his seminary studies in Shushtar, studying under his father, his maternal uncle (Sayyid Muhammad Hasan Al-Tayyib), and Muhammad Taqi Shushtari.[14] He then migrated to Najaf and attended the advanced classes (dars kharij) of Imam Khomeini, Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei, Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, and Ali Gharavi Tabrizi.[15] In 1350 Sh/1971, like other Iranians residing in Iraq, he was discharged from the country and benefited from the lessons of Muhammad Ali Araki and Vahid Khorasani in Qom.[16] From 1353 Sh/1974, upon the invitation of the people of Ahvaz, Jazayeri went to that city and had an active and effective presence in the scientific, cultural, and social arenas of Khuzestan province.[17]

Notes

  1. "Zindagī-nāma-yi Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Mūsawī Jazāyirī", Pāygāh-i Iṭṭilāʿ-risānī-yi Āyatullāh Jazāyirī.
  2. Rashīdī, "Mūsawī Jazāyirī, Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī", p. 424.
  3. Khumaynī, Ṣaḥīfa-yi Imām, vol. 17, p. 214.
  4. "Zindagī-nāma-yi Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Mūsawī Jazāyirī", Pāygāh-i Iṭṭilāʿ-risānī-yi Āyatullāh Jazāyirī.
  5. "Mūsawī Jazāyirī, Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī", Dabīrkhāna-yi Majlis-i Khubragān-i Rahbarī.
  6. "Mūsawī Jazāyirī, Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī", Dabīrkhāna-yi Majlis-i Khubragān-i Rahbarī.
  7. "Intiṣāb-i Ḥujjat al-Islām wa al-Muslimīn Mūsawī Jazāyirī bi riyāsat-i ḥawza-yi ʿilmiyya-yi Khūzistān", Daftar-i Ḥifẓ wa Nashr-i Āthār-i Āyatullāh Khāminiʾī.
  8. "Mūsawī Jazāyirī: Man aṣl-i wilāyat-i faqīh rā bi pīsh-niwīs-i qānūn iḍāfa kardam", Asr Iran.
  9. Dabīrkhāna-yi Majlis, Khubragān-i millat, vol. 2, pp. 482–484.
  10. "Muqaddima", Website of Madrasat Amīr al-Muʾminīn lil-ʿUlūm al-Dīniyya.
  11. "Zindagī-nāma-yi Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Mūsawī Jazāyirī", Pāygāh-i Iṭṭilāʿ-risānī-yi Āyatullāh Jazāyirī.
  12. "Mūsawī Jazāyirī, Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī", Dabīrkhāna-yi Majlis-i Khubragān-i Rahbarī.
  13. Rashīdī, "Mūsawī Jazāyirī, Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī", p. 422.
  14. Rashīdī, "Mūsawī Jazāyirī, Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī", p. 423.
  15. Dabīrkhāna-yi Majlis, Khubragān-i millat, vol. 2, p. 474.
  16. "Zindagī-nāma-yi Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Mūsawī Jazāyirī", Pāygāh-i Iṭṭilāʿ-risānī-yi Āyatullāh Jazāyirī.
  17. Dabīrkhāna-yi Majlis, Khubragān-i millat, vol. 2, pp. 475–476.

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