Grand Ayatollah Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Nasirabadi, also known as Naqqan Sahib, was a Twelver Shia Marja, poet, writer, jurist and Quranic interpreter. His notable Urdu works include Shaheed-e-Insaniyat and Tareekh-e-Islam. He also wrote a translation and commentary of the Quran, in addition to dozens of books in Arabic.
Talib Jauhari was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, poet, historian and philosopher of the Shia Sect of Islam. He is widely renowned as the most prominent Shia scholar, and his sermons were broadcast on PTV Network.
Tehreek-e-Jafaria Pakistan, formerly Tehreek Nifaz Fiqah-e-Jafaria Arif Hussaini/Sajid Naqvi Group was the Shia political party in Pakistan from 1979 to 2000. Belonging to the Ja'fari school of Islamic jurisprudence, TNFJ was founded in 1979 by Allama Syed Arif Hussain Al Hussaini supported by Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi Dhaku. Its creation coincided with the enforcement of controversial Islamic laws by then President of Pakistan, General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq. At the same time, 1979 Iranian Revolution in Shi'a Iran added extra confidence and comfort in the movement.
Syed Ibne Hasan Nunahrvi(نادرة الزمن مولانا سيد ابن حسن نونهروى)(1899-1980), was an Indian Shia Muslim cleric, orator and scholar.
Sayyid Dildar 'Ali, also known as Ghufran-Ma'ab Naseerabadi, was a Shia scholar of India, from the village of Nasirabad, Raibareli in Uttar Pradesh, India. His best-known work is "Imad-ul-Islâm", in Arabic, a refutation of the anti-Shia arguments used by the famous Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.
Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi is a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja' and one of the Four Grand Ayatollahs of Najaf, Iraq. He was born in Jalandhar, a city in then-British India. He resides in Najaf, Iraq now.
Raza Hussain also known as Allama Rasheed Turabi was a great Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, poet and philosopher.
Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi also known as Ayatullah Aqeel-ul-Gharavi is a leading Indian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, thinker, writer, poet, educationist, community activist, critic and a mujtahid. Presently, Aqeel-ul-Gharavi is acknowledged as one of the famous and senior Shia scholars from the Indian Subcontinent. He was the principal of Hawza-e-Ilmia Jamia-tus-Saqalain, Delhi and is the current chairman of Safinatul Hidaya Trust, India. He is the vice-President of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat and member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board. In addition to all of these, he also serves as patron of Imamia Islamic University, Delhi and secretary of Forum of Philosophers, India.
Syed Arif Hussain Al Hussaini was an Twelver Shīʿā Muslim scholar, Islamist ideologue, Islamic Jurist, and Islamic Revolutionist Political leader of Shia Muslims in Pakistan. He is also known as Khomanei-e-Pakistan for his activities which earned him the reputation of being one of the most prominent advocates for the Shia population of Pakistan and Islamic revival of Ja'fari school of Islamic jurisprudence in the country. He viewed the ideas of secularism, liberalism and communism as evil, which he understood to be the influence of Western and Soviet imperialism. He was assassinated in 1988 at aged 41.
Grand Ayatollah Shaikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi was a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja. Muhammad Hussain Najafi was running a Hawza in Sargodha. Najafi was included in all the editions of "The Muslim 500: The World's Most Influential Muslims" since 2010. He is one of the nine marja's mentioned in the most recent edition.
The Naqvis are people found predominantly in Iran, Iraq, and the South Asian countries. They claim descent from the Imam.
Ayatollah Hassan Raza Ghadeeri was a Shia scholar and Ayatollah (mujtahid) of Pakistan. His father, Mufti Muzammil Hussain Meesmi, was the first Mufti of Punjab.
Ayatollah Allama Syed Muhammad Dehlavi was a first Official Supreme Leader of Shiites of Pakistan & Shia scholar, who was elected as the first president of Shiite Demands Committee(A Shia Organization founded by the efforts of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi and other scholars) later called Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafaria. He had authored his fiqhi resalah named Wasael-ush-Sharia in Urdu, and the famous Urdu book Tohfat-ul-Awam on Jafari fiqh was largely based on it.
Muhammad Yar Shah Naqvi Najafi was a Pakistani Twelver Shia mujtahid and scholar.
Ayatollah Allama Hussain Bakhsh Jarra was a prominent Shia scholar from Punjab, Pakistan. He earned his degree of ijtihad from Hawza Elmiye Najaf, Iraq.
Ayatollah Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi, born 1970 is one of the ayatollahs of Pakistan. His father, Allama Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi, was the principal of Hawza Elmiye Jamia-tul-Muntazar Lahore, the largest Shia madrasah in Pakistan.
Grand Ayatollah Syed Mohsin Nawab Rizvi popularly known as Mohsin-ul-millat, was an Indian poet, writer, speaker and a Marja of the Twelver branch of Shia Islam. He served as vice principal of Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow, and as a principal of Govt Oriental College Madarsa Alia, Rampur and Madarsa Imaniya Nasiriya, Jaunpur.
Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi was the patron-in-chief of the supreme Shia ullama board and president of Tehrik-e-Nafaz-e-Fiqah-e-Jafaria, the Shiite-law implementation movement. His family is descended from Imam Musa al Kadhim, the seventh imam of Twelver Shias. Moosavi became president of Tehrik-e-Nafaz-e-Fiqah-e-Jafaria of Pakistan after the death of Mufti Jafar Hussain.
Aqeel Turabi also known as Allama Aqeel Turabi was a leading Pakistani Islamic scholar and orator. He was a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology from 2000 until 2006.
