Ali al-Ihqaqi

Mirza Ali Mousa al-Ihqaqi (Arabic: الميرزا علي موسى الإحقاقي‎) was a Kuwaiti Twelver Shia marja, and the spiritual leader of the Ihqaqi branch of the Shaykhi school of thought. The al-Ihqaqi family originated from the city of Osku in Iranian Azerbaijan, yet al-Ihqaqi took up residence in Kuwait in the 1950s to lead the Shaykhi community's religious affairs, and he was the first Shaykhi marja who became established in Kuwait.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Louër, Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf, (1988), p. 49

Bibliography

  • Louër, Laurence (1988). Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf. HURST Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85065-911-2.
  • Ahmed M., Yaqoob (2010). Al-Mīrzā ‘Alī Al-Ⱨā’erī Al-Ihqāqī (in Arabic). Imam Mahdi Centre, Kuwait.


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