Pioneers

Father: Sayed Ali (Born in Samarra)

Primary Education: Kuttab (Homeschooling)

Education in the Islamic Seminary:

• Intermediate Level: Ayatollah Mirza Ali Falsafi (Al-Makasib) - Ayatollah Sayed Ali Sistani (Al-Rasa'il)
• Advanced Level: Ayatollah Al-Sayed Abu Al-Qasim Al-Khoei

Activities:

• Manuscript editing, copy editing, and index editing during his youth.
• Establishment of the World-Wide Organization for Islamic Services in 1966 a.d., with by Dr. Muhammad Ali Shahrestani and administrating the organization for more than 50 years.

Birth Place: Iraq, Karbala

Born: 1932

Demise: 2011 (Buried in the courtyard of Imam Al-Hussein’s shrine)

Education: PhD in International Engineering from University de la Romande, England

POSITIONS HELD

• Founder and CEO of (R E Group) in Iran (Tehran), Germany (Solingen), USA (Huston), UK (London) and Lebanon (Beirut)
• Founder and CEO of a steel manufacturing company in Tehran, Iran
• Founder and Trustee of the International University of Technology in London (established in association with UNESCO)
• Founder and President of International Colleges of Islamic Science in London

 EXPERIENCE

He was a designer or executer of multiple projects including:

• Hotels: 6 hotels in Iran (Mashhad) and Iraq (Karbala and Kadhimiya)
• Town Planning & Housing: Large projects in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Iraq (in total over 25,000 housing units)
• Hospitals and Clinics: including 8 hospitals and medical centers in different cities of Iran and Bangladesh (in total more than 1700 hospital beds)
• Commercial and Office Buildings: 5 shopping malls in Iran, USA, UK, and Lebanon
• Religious and Cultural Buildings: The most significant of which are:
  • The extension of Imam Al-Ridah’s (a.s) holy shrine
  • The extension of the main hall of Kadhimain shrine
  • Lavatory facilities in Karbala and Kadhimain (800 Units)
  • A new courtyard and ancillary buildings for the Kadhimain shrine
  • A new massive courtyard surrounding shrines of Imam Al-Hussein (a.s) and Al-Abbas (a.s)
  • The extension and roofing of Imam Hussain’s (a.s) courtyard
  • Lady Ruqayyah’s Shrine in Damascus, Syria
  • Hujr ibn Uday’s shrine in Damascus, Syria
• Chief designer of many industrial projects
• Chief designer of many agro-industrial projects
• Academic Activities: Establishment of two universities and participation in many international world conferences
• Higher education consultant to UNESCO during 1987 - 1990.
• Broadcasting Activity: Managing Director of a Documentary Educational / Religious Satellite Channel called "Ghaem Channel"
• Founder of the “World Organization for Islamic Services” (WOFIS)

PATENTS

• Rotary Combustion Engine design, patented in England in 1961
•  New design for modular roof structure, patented in England in 1988

AWARDS

• Commentative Medal of Honor (Gold) for outstanding achievements by the American Biographical Institute
• Distinguished Leadership Award by the American Biographical Institute

Father: Sayed Ali (Born in Samarra)

Primary Education: Kuttab (Homeschooling)

Education in the Islamic Seminary:

• Intermediate Level: Ayatollah Mirza Ali Falsafi (Al-Makasib) - Ayatollah Sayed Ali Sistani (Al-Rasa'il)
• Advanced Level: Ayatollah Al-Sayed Abu Al-Qasim Al-Khoei

Activities:

• Manuscript editing, copy editing, and index editing during his youth.
• Establishment of the World-Wide Organization for Islamic Services in 1966 a.d., with by Dr. Muhammad Ali Shahrestani and administrating the organization for more than 50 years.

Father: Sayed Ali (Born in Samarra)

Education: Traditional Shia Seminary:

• Preliminary Level Studies: Arabic literature, logic, etc.
• Intermediate Level Studies: jurisprudence and its principles and books such as:  Al-Qawaneen, Al-Rasa'il, Al-Kifāya, and Al-Makasib.
•  Various advanced level courses outside in jurisprudence and its principles.
• Some of His Teachers: The late Sayed Ali Nouri (his father), Imam Isfahani (Sayed Al-Borujerdi’s representative in Kermanshah, Iran), Sheikh Ahmad Fayadh Isfahani, Sayed Ali Beheshti, Sayed Abu Al-Qasim Al-Khoei, Sheikh Mujtaba Hatami Lankarani, Sheikh Abu Al-Hassan Shamsabadi Isfahani, Sayed Abbas Mehri, Al-Sayed Sajjad Gorgani Mazandarani, Al-Sheikh Shams, Mirza Baqir Zanjani, Mirza Hassan Yazdi

Authorships:

• Communism Contradicts Religion    
• Firm Thoughts in Recognition of Ideological Believes (4 volumes)

Activities:

• Over 60 years of teaching jurisprudential and Quranic sciences
• Missionary trips to European and Middle Eastern countries
• Part of the scientific committee in the 10th Cairo International Book Fair in 1977 a.d
• Training many students in religious studies
• Answering to religious doubts and questions, especially in WOFIS
• Organizer of religious meetings
• Lectures, poems, and eulogy for Ahl Al-Bayt (a.s)

Father: Sayed Ali (Born in Samarra)

Father's Education: in holy Najaf’s seminary he reached the highest levels in advanced classes; Ijtihad (endeavor to deduce). The late Sayyid Ali Nouri - Sayed Muhammad Ridha’s father - was also the representative in holy Najaf of the high-ranking Shia authority at the time; the late Sayed Abu Al-Hassan Al-Isfahani when he travelled outside Iraq for treatment.

Education: Traditional Shia Seminary:

• Preliminary Level Studies: Arabic literature, logic, etc.
• Intermediate Level Studies: jurisprudence and its principles and books such as: Al-Qawaneen, Al-Rasa'il, Al-Kifāya, and Al-Makasib.
• Various advanced level courses outside in jurisprudence and its principles.
• Some of His Teachers: Sayed Muhammad Baqir Mahallati, Sayed Abu Al-Hassan Shamsabadi Isfahani, Sheikh Hassan Hilli, Mirza Hassan Yazdi Baesi, Mirza Baqir Zanjani, Al-Sayed Abu Al-Qasim Al-Khoei

Authorships:

• A Guide to Mustadrak Al-Wasa’il (A guide to biographical evaluation topics in Mustadrak Al-Wasa'il)
• The Arabic translation of Sheikh Abbas Qomi’s Mafatih Al-Jinan. In addition to translation of the Persian texts in the book into Arabic, he mentions the sources of the narrations available in Mafatih al-Jinan.
• A Collection of Sayings from the Nobel Kafi (written by Muhammad ibn Ya'qub Al-Kulayni) (14 volumes)
• Selections from the Holy Quran & Its Guidance
• Religion & Life
• Assembling and compiling a detailed list of books published by WOFIS
• Books for teaching the holy Quran with groundbreaking and excellent methods

Activities:

• Over 60 years of teaching jurisprudential and Quranic sciences
• Supervision of WOFIS’s correspondence center for answering religious doubts and inquiries
• Examination and organization of the chain of reporters in the second volume of Al-Kafi (Ongoing)
• Leadership of congregation prayers and missionary work prompting topics related to interpretation of the Quran, jurisprudence, and sayings from 1964 to 1983 a.d.
• Inventing a creative method in teaching the holy Quran and authoring necessary books in connection with coaching hundreds of Quranic teachers with this method since.

Father: Nasrallah Ja’fari Ashkouri, who was trained by Sayed Abu Al-Hassan Al-Isfahani and Al-Muhaqiq Mirza Al-Naini, and was available during the era of Sayed Muhsin Al-Hakim and Sayed Mahmoud Al- Shahroudi in holy Najaf.

Education:

• The advanced level (Kharij lesson)
• English literature (advanced level)
• French literature
• Astronomy
• Philosophy
• Logic

Teachers:

• Sheikh Nasrallah Ja’fari Ashkouri (preliminary level)
• Sheikh Abdul Samad Yazdi (Logic)
• Sheikh Sadra Badkoubi (Philosophy)
• Abdul Jalil Adly (Astronomy)
• Al-Mudaris Al-Afghani (Arab literature)
• Sayed Abu Al-Qasim Al-Khoei and Sayed Muhammad Rouhani (Jurisprudence and Principals of Jurisprudence)
• others: Sayed Abdulali Sabzavari - Mirza Muhammad Ardebili - Sheikh Ali Kashi - Sheikh Mortada Lahiji - Sayed Ahmad Ashkouri - Mirza Hassan Yazdi.

Articles:

• History of Islamic Theology
• A Classification of Shia Theologists
• Saqifa 
• Fadak
• A Treatise on Al-Ghadir
• A Treatise on the Meaning of “Mawla”
• Commentary on Sheikh Aqa Bozorg Tehrani’s Classification of Shia Scholars
• Editing and Commentary of Al-Khalasa Allamah Al-Hilli
• Research About Hisham Ibn Al-Hakam
• Research About Ismailism
• Research About the Distortion of the Quran

Authorships:

• Sects, Branches, and Ideologies: (Ismailia, Mu'tazila, Karami, Ashʿarīyyah, Heretics, Kharijites, Murji'ah, Zaydi)
• Imami Theologists: (Hisham ibn Hakam, Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Nu'man, Ibn Maytham)
• Biography of Al-Tabari & Al-Mufid
• Sunni Theologists
• A Biography of Imam Al-Mujtaba (a.s)
• A Biography of Imam Zayn Al-Abidin (a.s)
• A Biography of Imam Al-Hussein (a.s)
• Virtues and Defects of Sahaba, Tabi'een, and Imams of Sects
• The History of Shia Culture
• Polytheists’ Monotheism
• Sayings About Imam Al-Mahdi (a.t.f) & Mahdiism
• Poets of Virtues
• The Distortion of the Quran According to Sunnis
• Commentary of Usul Al-Kafi (Kitab Al-Hujja [The Book of the Proof])
• Hadith of Wahhabism
• A Selection from Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
• The Verse of Wilayah [Leadership]
• The Verse of Ikmal [Perfection of the Religion]
• Research on the Ummah (the meaning of the imam and the guardian (research report)
• Research on the Ummah (Events During the Prophet’s Illness)
• Al-Azhar Al-Muqtatafa
• Memoirs
• Shia Religious Rituals
• The Occultation
• An Introduction to Tashih Al-Itiqadat [A Correction of Al-Saduq's Risalat Al-Itiqadat]
• Reports of Saqīfa
• The Event of Saqīfa
• Commentary on Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal (3 volumes)
• Sunnah of Interpretation (5 volumes)
• Commentary on Allamah Al-Hilli’s Rijal Book
• Days of Illness
• The History of Transcribing the Holy Quran
• The Battle of Tabuk in the Holy Quran
• The Battle of Uhud in the Holy Quran
• A Biography of Abu Hanifa
• Shia Religious Rituals
• The Prophet’s Wives in the Holy Quran
• Commentary on Sayed Abu Al-Hassan Isfahani’s Wasilat Al-Najat (in cooperation with Sayed Abu Al-Qasim Khoei)

Activities:

• A member of Al-Sayed Abu Al-Qasim Al-Kohei’s Q&A Office
• An active member in the administration group of holy Najaf’s seminary (2001 a.d.)
• An active member in the administration group of Al-Adhwa'a magazine
• Educating and teaching criticism of Marxism (Najaf Ashraf)
• Islamic theology teacher holy Najaf’s seminary
• Thought Islamic history, Islamic believes, principles of jurisprudence, and interpretation of the holy Quran for seven years in Najaf’s Fiqh University
• Enforced emigration to Iran in 1972 a.d.
• A fundamental member of WOFIS’s academic board, Q&A office, bookfair ambassador, translation of reliable books such as Al-Kafi (7 years)
• Thought Islamic theology, Islamic history, criticism of western philosophy, interpretation, and modern theology in Faravan, Iran
• Various researches, including the encyclopedia of Imam Al-Hussein (in twenty volumes and more than 15 thousand pages)
• Gathering of a large and specialized library in various fields of Islamic sciences, as well as other sciences in Persian, Arabic, and English for research purposes (more than 30,000 volumes)
• Defending Shia creeds by answering doubts and misconceptions
• Missionary trips to Egypt, Indonesia, and various countries in Europe
• Carried out countless religious gatherings and ceremonies throughout 40 years in Iran.

Father: Al-Sheikh Nasrullah Ashkuri

Education: Advanced Level (Kharij Lesson)

Teachers:

• Al-Sayed Abu Al-Qasim Al-Khoei
• Al-Sayed Muhammad Al-Rouhani
• Mirza Ali Falsafi Tonekaboni
• Al-Sheikh Abdulhussein Al-Rashti
• Mirza Kadhim Al-Tabrizi
• Al-Sayed Ali Fani Isfahani
• Al-Sheikh Mujtaba Al-Lankarani
• Al-Sheikh Sadra badkoobei

Authorships:

• An Interpretation of the Holy Quran
• A Dialogue on Imamate
• A Treatise on Friday Prayers
• Jurisprudence and Ijtihad from Shia’s Point of View
• Detection of Arwa Al-Wuthqa (The Topic of Divorce)
• A Treatise on Divine Justice.
• A Treatise on Dubious Clothes
• A Treatise on the Maxim: No Repeating
• Principles for Studying and Compiling Islam’s History
• Semantics in Akhund Khurasani's View, Notes from His Kifāya Classes (Verbal Issues)
• Notes from Principles of jurisprudence (Advanced Levels)
• Al-Murtaqa Ila Al-Fiqh Al-Arka (Report of Ayatollah Al-Rouhani’s Lessons)
• Report of Ayatollah Al-Khoei’s Lessons (Principles of Jurisprudence)
• Report of Ayatollah Al-Khoei’s Lessons (Jurisprudence: Ritual Purity – Prayers)
• Report of Ayatollah Al-Rouhani’s Lessons (Jurisprudence: Khums – Hajj – Fasting – Forbidden Transactions – Trading – Settlement)
• Report of Ayatollah Al-Rouhani’s Lessons (Principles of Jurisprudence)

Activities:

• Teaching the books Kifayat Al-Usul and Al-Makasib, and training many respected scholars in Iraq.
• Answering Inquiries sent to Ayatollah Khoei's Office
• Teaching Islamic Jurisprudence, Principles of Jurisprudence, Interpretation [of the Quran] and Theology in Iran to a large group of scholars, clerics, and academics.
• Missionary duties in which he spread the words of guidance with lecturers and eulogy in various ceremonies.
• Effective cooperation with the Worldwide Organization For Islamic Services since 1972 a.d.

Father: Abdul Hussein ('Allama Amini)

Education: Up to the advanced level (Kharij lessons)

Some of His Teachers:

• Sheikh Hashem Ozzy
• 'Allama Amini
• Sheikh Ghorban Ali Sarabi
• Sheikh Ali Asghar Tabrizi
• Sayed Ali Allama Fani
• Sheikh Muhammad Gharavi Qazvini
• Sheikh Mirza Ali Falsafi
• Dr. Abu Al-Qasim Gorji
• Sheikh Gholamreza Erfanian Isfahani
• Allameh Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Jafari
• Sayed Assadullah Madani

Authorships:

• An Introduction to The Book: Al-Ghadir
• An Introduction & Description of The Book: Tafsir of Surah Al-Hamad by ‘Allama Amini
• A Journey During the pyramids
• Ghadir: The Shia’s Jewel

Activities:

• Accompanying 'Allama Amini on all his trips to India, Syria, Turkey, and Iran
• Permanent attendance with 'Allama Amini
• Cooperation in construction and management of Amir Al-Mumenin (as) Library
• Cooperation with WOFIS (Finance, Director During Book Fairs, Establishment of the Dar Al-Turath Institute)

Father: Sayed Muhsin

Education: Studied in holy Najaf’s Islamic seminary

Teachers:

•  Al-Sayed Abu Al-Qasim Al-Khoei
• Ali Mohammad Boroujerdi
• Mirza Hashem Amoli
• Sayed Muhammad Rouhani

Authorship:

• Reports and notes from the jurisprudence and principals of jurisprudence lessons of Ayatollah Abu Al-Qasim Al-Khoei and Ayatollah Rouhani, which are yet to be published.

Activities:

• Various activities for many years in holy Najaf, Bandar-e-Gaz, Tehran, and Mashhad.

Birth Place: Iraq, Karbala

Born: 1932

Demise: 2011 (Buried in the courtyard of Imam Al-Hussein’s shrine)

Education: PhD in International Engineering from University de la Romande, England

POSITIONS HELD

• Founder and CEO of (R E Group) in Iran (Tehran), Germany (Solingen), USA (Huston), UK (London) and Lebanon (Beirut)
• Founder and CEO of a steel manufacturing company in Tehran, Iran
• Founder and Trustee of the International University of Technology in London (established in association with UNESCO)
• Founder and President of International Colleges of Islamic Science in London

 EXPERIENCE

He was a designer or executer of multiple projects including:

• Hotels: 6 hotels in Iran (Mashhad) and Iraq (Karbala and Kadhimiya)
• Town Planning & Housing: Large projects in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Iraq (in total over 25,000 housing units)
• Hospitals and Clinics: including 8 hospitals and medical centers in different cities of Iran and Bangladesh (in total more than 1700 hospital beds)
• Commercial and Office Buildings: 5 shopping malls in Iran, USA, UK, and Lebanon
• Religious and Cultural Buildings: The most significant of which are:
  • The extension of Imam Al-Ridah’s (a.s) holy shrine
  • The extension of the main hall of Kadhimain shrine
  • Lavatory facilities in Karbala and Kadhimain (800 Units)
  • A new courtyard and ancillary buildings for the Kadhimain shrine
  • A new massive courtyard surrounding shrines of Imam Al-Hussein (a.s) and Al-Abbas (a.s)
  • The extension and roofing of Imam Hussain’s (a.s) courtyard
  • Lady Ruqayyah’s Shrine in Damascus, Syria
  • Hujr ibn Uday’s shrine in Damascus, Syria
• Chief designer of many industrial projects
• Chief designer of many agro-industrial projects
• Academic Activities: Establishment of two universities and participation in many international world conferences
• Higher education consultant to UNESCO during 1987 - 1990.
• Broadcasting Activity: Managing Director of a Documentary Educational / Religious Satellite Channel called "Ghaem Channel"
• Founder of the “World Organization for Islamic Services” (WOFIS)

PATENTS

• Rotary Combustion Engine design, patented in England in 1961
•  New design for modular roof structure, patented in England in 1988

AWARDS

• Commentative Medal of Honor (Gold) for outstanding achievements by the American Biographical Institute
• Distinguished Leadership Award by the American Biographical Institute