Kamal al-Haydari

Sayyid Kamal al-Haydari
Religious Reference Sayyid Kamal al-Haydari
Title	Grand Ayatollah - Allameh - Religious Reference
Born	1956 (age 60–61) Karbala, Iraq
Region	Iraq
Religion	Islam
Jurisprudence	Ja`fari
Creed	Usuli Shia Islam
Main interest(s)	Islamic philosophy, Tafsir, Fiqh and Hadith
Website	official website

Kamal bin Baqer bin Hassan al-Haydari in Arabic(السيد كمال بن باقر بن حسن الحيدري) (born 1956) is an Islamic Shia scholar from Iraq, and now a resident in Qom, Iran. He is best known for his ideological debates on doctrines and Islamic groups across his television programs, such as Debates in Beliefs and Mahdism Thesis on Al-Kawthar TV.

He has more than 6000 lectures and 137 books in various Islamic sciences.

Kamal al-Haydari was born in the city of Karbala in Iraq in 1376 AH (Hijri year), corresponding to 1956. His father was a cloth dealer. He completed his elementary, middle and high school education in public schools. He then moved to Najaf in 1974 and completed his academic study at the Faculty of Fiqh. He garnered a bachelor's degree in Islamic sciences with honors in 1978 and then migrated to Kuwait in 1980 due to the prosecution of authorities, and then to Damascus, Syria, where he remained for nearly four months. He then left for Iran via Turkey and settled in the city of Qom.