Shahab al-Din Mar'ashi Najafi

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abul Ma'ali Shahab ad-Din Muhammad Hussain Mar'ashi Najafi (July 1, 1897 - August 31, 1990) (Arabic: اية الله العظمى السيد شهابالدين الحسينى المرعش‎‎) was an Iraqi born Marja-i Taqleed.

Sayyed Najafi began his education under the auspices of his father. His earliest endeavour was to master tajweed and to learn the doctrines of tafsir which had been taught to him by his father, as well as Mirza Aboll Hassan Meshkini, Sheikh Mohammad Hossein Shirazi, Sayid Hab Al-Din Shahrestani and Sayid Ibrahim Shafei Rafaei Baghdadi. Sayyed Najafi was formally educated in the hawza of Najaf, and also spent three years studying in the Iraqi cities of Samarra and Kadhimiya; two important centres of Shia learning. He excelled in areas of fiqh, `ilm al-rijal, 'aql, and kalam. Sayyed Najafi received ijazahs from numerous scholars, among them the female religious leader Banu Amin.

Upon attaining the level of ijtihad in 1925, Sayyed Najafi travelled to Qom, Iran, at the request of Grand Ayatollah Hajj Sheikh Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi, one of the most important revivalists of the Qom hawza. He would stay and teach in the city of Qom until his death. He led the prayers in the shrine of Fatemah Mæ'sume for over half a century. Among those that visited the Sayid during his life in Qom include Rashid Ridha, Henry Corbin, and the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.

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