Mohammad Fazel Lankarani
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| Title | Grand Ayatollah |
| Born | 1931 Qom, Iran |
| Died | 16 June 2007 Qom, Iran |
| Ethnicity | Azerbaijani & Persian |
| Era | Modern era |
| Religion | Islam |
| Jurisprudence | Usuli Twelver Shia |
| Creed | Jafari jurisprudence |
| Main interest(s) | Fiqh, Usul |
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| Website | www.lankarani.com/ |
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Fazel Lankarani (1931 in Qom, Iran — June 16, 2007 in Qom, Iran) was an Islamic Iranian cleric. He was student of Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi. He was a child of a Persian mother and an Azerbaijani father.
Lankarani was born in Qom, Iran. His father was an Azerbaijani-speaking native of Soviet Azerbaijan who studied in Najaf and Qom and eventually settled in the latter. His mother, was a woman of Sayed descent. Lankarani was fluent in Arabic, Azerbaijani, Persian, and Russian.
Lankarani received his ijtihad, the permission of independent interpretation of the legal sources (the Qur'an and the Sunnah), from Ayatollah Boroujerdi at the age of 25. He led the prayer in the haram of Bibi Masouma A.S in Qum.
Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani was declared as the most knowledgeable specialist in the field of the Islamic law (Marja al-taqlid) by the central Shi'a school of religious studies in Qom, Hawza 'Ilmiyyah, after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini. At the time of his death he was one of seven Grand Ayatollahs in Iran. His Resalah, the book including his interpretation of Islamic laws on different topics, is available in Arabic, English, Persian, Turkish, and other languages. Lankarani taught in the areas of the science of Islamic law (fiqh) and Usul al-fiqh for the last 25 years of his life.
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