Al-Sayyed Mohsen al-Amin | |
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 Grand Ayatollah Al-Sayyed Mohsen al-Amin | |
| Born | 1867 |
| Died | 1952 |
| Region | Southern lebanese Scholar |
| School | Shia Twelver |
Al-Sayyed Mohsen al-Amin (b.1284/1867-d.1371/1952), also transliterated Muhsin al Amin, was a Shia scholar, biographer, traditionist, and jurist. He was born in Jabal Amil, Lebanon. His most important work is A'yan al-Shi'a. [1]
Al-Amin was born in 1867 to a well-known Sayyid family in Jabal Amil, Lebanon.He was famous for al-Amin or the trusted one. [2] His father, Abdul al-Karim al-Amili, was a scholar of his time. His father died in Iraq was buried, when he had gone to pilgrimage Iraq. [3] His maternal grandfather was ′Shaykh Muhammad Hussein al Amili al Musawi, was one of the scholars who went to Najaf to education and died there. [3]
Sayyed Mohsen began to study the Qur'an and elementary Arabic grammar at the age of seven under village teacher. [3] Four years later, he learned jurisprudence for three years old under shaykh Musa sharara who returned to Iraq.In 1890, arrangements were made for him to study at the Iraq, Najaf. [3] Finally he was a learned Mujtahid. [4]
He was among the first Shi’i modernists and received widespread condemnation by the Shia community of Lebanon for his endeavours in attempting to change and reform the religion
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