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

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