Mohammad Shirazi
| Ayatullah Sayed Mohammad Hussaini Shirazi | |
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| Born | August 31, 1928 Najaf,  Kingdom of Iraq
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| Died | December 17, 2001 Qom,  Islamic Republic of Iran
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| Nationality | Iraqi |
| Other names | King of Authors (سلطان المؤلفين) |
| Occupation | Grand Ayatollah |
| Known for | "The New Order for the World of Faith, Freedom, Welfare and Peace" |
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad ibn Mahdi al-Hussaini al-Shirazi (Arabic: آية الله العظمى السيد محمد بن مهدي الحسيني الشيرازي; August 31, 1928 – December 17, 2001), commonly known as Mohammad Al-Shirazi, was a Shia Muslim author, politician and religious leader.
Muhammad Shirazi was born in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, in AD 1928 (1347 AH) into a Persian clerical family. Other members of the Shirazi family are Grand Ayatollah Mirza Hassan Shirazi, leader of Iran's constitutional movement, also known as the Tobacco Movement, a successful boycott of the British tobacco monopoly, and Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Shirazi, leader of the 1920 revolution in Iraq. His nephews, Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi and Ayatollah Hadi al-Modarresi, are leading jurists. Al-Shirazi's father, Grand Ayatollah Mehdi Shirazi, was a leading scholar and the Marja'. He was subsequently able to assume the office of the Marje' at the early age of 33 in 1961.
In 1971 he was exiled from Iraq to Lebanon by the Ba'thist regime. From Lebanon Al-Shirazi moved to Kuwait where he was influential in the rise of religious radicalism, and also indirectly affecting religious discourse among Sunnis.
At the time Al-Shirazi came into conflict with other prominent Shia religious figures in Najaf. Perhaps the most prominent Shia religious leader of the time, Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, sought to dismiss Al-Shirazi's status as a scholar.
Through personal charisma and intellectual arguments, Al-Shirazi built up a large following in Kuwait and Iraq. His followers became known as the 'Shiraziyyin' and tended to be critical of existing Shi'i religious establishments. In 1979, with fellow Shia Islamist clerics in power in Iran, Al-Shirazi moved to Iran and settled in Qom.
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