Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ayatollah Hussein Ismael Al-Sadr is a high-ranking Shi’a Muslim religious scholar in Iraq. He was born in the al-Kazimiya district of Baghdad, Iraq, where he resides to this day. He is widely seen as a highly respected unifying figure that has been called upon to reach across Iraq’s ethno-sectarian divides. His lineage goes back to the Prophet Muhammad, through the seventh Shia Imam, Musa al-Kazim.By virtue of his esteemed position as a clergyman, as well as his reputation of being one of the most well respected and highly regarded public figures in Iraq, Hussein Al-Sadr is afforded a certain gravitas and is called on to mediate and advise on a plethora of issues beyond the religious or philanthropic spheres to which he is most accustomed. He has thus attained the role of “Marji’”, a level of scholarship awarded to a select few who have proven themselves worthy of the responsibility. The Marji’ (translated literally to “authority” in English) is referred to on virtually all matters of modern day life, including occasionally, political issues."@en }
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- Hussein_Al-Sadr abstract "Ayatollah Hussein Ismael Al-Sadr is a high-ranking Shi’a Muslim religious scholar in Iraq. He was born in the al-Kazimiya district of Baghdad, Iraq, where he resides to this day. He is widely seen as a highly respected unifying figure that has been called upon to reach across Iraq’s ethno-sectarian divides. His lineage goes back to the Prophet Muhammad, through the seventh Shia Imam, Musa al-Kazim.By virtue of his esteemed position as a clergyman, as well as his reputation of being one of the most well respected and highly regarded public figures in Iraq, Hussein Al-Sadr is afforded a certain gravitas and is called on to mediate and advise on a plethora of issues beyond the religious or philanthropic spheres to which he is most accustomed. He has thus attained the role of “Marji’”, a level of scholarship awarded to a select few who have proven themselves worthy of the responsibility. The Marji’ (translated literally to “authority” in English) is referred to on virtually all matters of modern day life, including occasionally, political issues.".