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Ayatollah Sayyid
Hadi al-Modarresi
Ayatollah Sayyid Hadi al-Modarresi
السيد هادي الحسيني المدرسي
Title	Ayatollah
Personal life
Born	1947 (age 77–78); Karbala, Iraq
Nationality	Iraqi ; Iranian ; Bahraini (withdrawn)
Children	Mahdi; Muhammed-Ali; Mustafa; Husayn; Muhammad-Kadhim;
Parent	Mohammed Kadhim al-Modarresi (father)
Relatives	Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi (brother) ; Ali Akbar al-Modarresi (brother) ; Mirza Mahdi al-Shirazi (grandfather) ; Muhammad al-Shirazi (maternal uncle) ; Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari (uncle-in-law)
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Twelver Shīʿā
Website	http://www.hadialmodarresi.com/

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Ayatollah Sayyid Hadi al-Husayni al-Modarresi (Arabic: هادي الحسيني المدرسي; Persian: هادى حسينى مدرسى; b. 1947^[1]), is an Iraqi-Iranian Shia scholar, leader and orator.^[6] He is viewed as a charismatic speaker, enamoring many Muslims, radiating a certain magnetism in his oratory. He spent much of his career in opposition to the Bathist government, and he spent many years in exile, particularly in Bahrain. Al-Modarresi returned to Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and administers humanitarian projects in there.

Family

Al-Modarresi was born into a distinguished Shia religious family in Karbala in Iraq. His father is Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Kadhim al-Modarresi, the grandson of grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Baqir Golpayegani (also known as Jorfadiqani).^[7] His mother is the daughter of grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mahdi al-Shirazi.^[4] He claims descent from Zayd ibn Ali (died c. 740 AD), the great-great-grandson of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.^[1]

Biography

Early life

Al-Modarresi began his religious education in the religious seminaries of Karbala, at the age of thirteen. He actively sought his religious studies under the auspices of many high ranking scholars, such as Sheikh Hasan al-A'lami, Sheikh Muhammad al-Karbassi, Shaykh Jafar al-Rushti, Shaykh Muhamamd-Husayn al-Mazindarani and his uncles, Sayyids Muhammad, Hassan and Sadiq al-Shirazi.^[8]^[1] In the late sixties, he and his uncle, Mujtaba al-Shirazi, attended the class of Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini, and became one of his closest students.^[9] He completed the advanced level of his religious education in his early twenties.^[10]

Bathist opposition

Al-Modarresi's advocacy of political freedom and strong stance against terrorism started from an early age when Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq. Seventeen members of his wife's family–Al-Qazwini–were executed by Saddam's regime or simply disappeared in the notorious Bathist penitentiaries. Al-Modarresi wrote the first book to openly attack the regime, published by a religious scholar. Published under a pseudonym in Beirut, the book was titled No To Rulers of Iraq and sparked a massive political crisis in Baghdad and caused the Bathist regime to issue an ultimatum for the removal of all Lebanese nationals from Iraq within 72 hours.^[10]

Al-Modarresi eluded execution by moving from house to house, often living in cellars for months and traveling in disguise. When his uncle, Hasan was imprisoned, and the pressures of the Bathists anti-Shia sentiment peaked,^[11]^[12] Al-Modarresi left Iraq in 1970, for Lebanon, and then briefly joined his brother Muhammad-Taqi, in Kuwait.^[13]

Bahraini leadership

In 1973, he emigrated to Bahrain, and exercised his religious activism there. In 1974, he was granted Bahraini citizenship.^[14] In Bahrain, al-Modarresi rose to national prominence, and was awarded with power of representation from grand religious authorities such as Muhammad al-Shirazi, Ruhollah Khomeini,^[15] Shihab al-Din al-Marashi, and Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari, being labelled as a scholar "worthy of taking a leadership position" and urging Muslims to follow his lead.^[16]^[17]^[18]

In 1979, the Bahraini authorities placed a travel ban on al-Modarresi, after his organisation, the Islamic Front for Liberation of Bahrain (a branch of his brother's (Muhammad-Taqi) larger risali movement), was announced in the press, being dubbed as an organisation that wanted to import the Iranian revolution into Bahrain, and pointing the finger at al-Modarresi, as its leader.^[15] In August of that year, he was kidnapped by the Bahraini intelligence and locked up in a car for up to fourteen hours. However, there was an international uproar, with the interference of some of the Islamic republic's senior leaders, and Yasser Arafat personally, that pressured the Bahraini government to release him, and send him over to Iran, with an apology.^[9]

Exile in Iran

Whilst in Iran, al-Modarresi continued his activism and kept supporting the Bahraini population against the Al Khalifah regime. The IFLB came to prominence as the front organisation for the 1981 coup, which attempted to install al-Modarresi as the spiritual leader of a newly established theocratic Shia state.^[19]^[20] However the coup failed, and so al-Modarresi reorganised the structure of the Front, focusing on its information efforts in Europe.^[21]

Al-Modarresi became a founding member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and was among the active figures of the Iraqi opposition in exile. He was closely involved in efforts to expose and bring down the regime in Baghdad. He managed to escape a number of assassination attempts abroad, including one in Brazil in 1991 as well as two more attempts in Syria, by the Bathist intelligence operatives, in 2001.

Return to Iraq

Upon returning to Iraq after the fall of Saddam's regime, he was greeted by over thirty thousand people in Baghdad, fifty thousand in Sadr City and a similar crowd in his hometown, Karbala.

Al-Modarresi established a television station upon his return to his hometown.^[18] He is also involved in several large-scale humanitarian projects in Iraq and has been involved in the building of mosques, schools, medical clinics, orphanages, and has been a staunch advocate of women's rights and consistently speaks out against the oppression of women in his lectures and books. He also facilitates marriage by providing financial help to people who wish to get married and has organized several large mass marriage ceremonies. sl-Modarresi also founded and currently heads the League of Religious Scholars which brings together many high ranking Shi’ite scholars or their representatives in Iraq.

Personal life

Al-Modarresi is married to the daughter of prominent scholar, Hashim al-Qazwini (d. 2009), the elder brother of Murtadha al-Qazwini.^[22] He has five sons (Mahdi, Muhammad-Ali, Mustafa, Husayn and Muhammad-Kadhim). All of his sons are clerics.

COVID-19

In March 2020, al-Modarresi contracted the virus, but has since recovered and reported to be in good health.^[23]

Works

Al-Modarresi has authored more than 250 books. Some of his books were published under different pen names such as 'Muhammad Hadi' and 'Abdallah al-Hashimi', and 'Muhammad al-Amin Association'.^[24]

Some of al-Modarresi's books include:

Al-Modarresi, Sayed Hadi (12 November 2015). God's Sacrifice: The Epic Saga of Hussein and His Legendary Martyrdom. ISBN 978-0994240927.
Al-Modarresi, Sayed Hadi (22 May 2017). Heated Debate on Atheism. ISBN 978-1548180010.
المدرسي, هادي (2002). How to Beat Failure, Advise on Success and Time Management (in Arabic). ISBN 978-9953299563.
المدرسي, هادي (2002). Art of Success (in Arabic). ISBN 978-9953299532. (7 Volumes)
How to Enjoy Life and Live Happily (in Arabic).
And They Ask You About Things (in Arabic).
Shortcuts To Glory (in Arabic).
Supplications of the Quran (in Arabic).
A B Islam (in Arabic).
Supplications of the Quran (in Arabic).
Universal Challenges, Refurbishing Civilisation (in Arabic).
Mannerisms of the Commander of the Faithful (in Arabic). (3 Volumes)
Ashura (in Arabic).
The Martyr and the Revolution (in Arabic).
The Message of a Muslim.. To Save the World (in Arabic).
Critique on Marxism (in Arabic).
Response to Satanic Verses Book (in Arabic).
Friend and Friendship (in Arabic).

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ṭuʻmah, Salmān Hādī (1998). Asha'er Karbala Wa 'Usariha [Tribes and Families of Karbala] (in Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Mahaja al-Baydha'. pp. 197–8.
^ "Office of Sayed Mahdi al-Modarresi". www.almodarresi.org. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
^ ^a ^b al-Muhtadi, Abd al-Atheem (2009). Qusas Wa Khawatir - Min Akhlaqiyat 'Ulama' al-Din [Stories and Memories - From the Manners of the Scholars]. Beirut, Lebanon: Mu'asasat al-Balagh. p. 581.
^ ^a ^b Louër, Laurence (2011). Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf. Hurst. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-84904-214-7.
^ al-Muhtadi, Abd al-Atheem (2009). Qusas Wa Khawatir - Min Akhlaqiyat 'Ulama' al-Din [Stories and Memories - From the Manners of the Scholars]. Beirut, Lebanon: Mu'asasat al-Balagh. p. 345.
^ al-Shaykh, Mansoor (1991). al-Alama al-Modarresi, Mawaqifah Wa Afkaruh [al-Modarresi the scholar, His stands and thoughts] (in Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Wa Maktabat al-Mustafa.
^ al-Tehrani, Agha Buzurg (2009). Tabaqat A'lam al-Shia; al-Kiram al-Barara Fi al-Qarn al-Thalith Ashar [Levels of the Notables of the Shia (13th Century)]. Vol. 10. Cairo, Egypt: Dar Ihya' al-Turath al-Arabi. p. 165.
^ al-Mu'min, Ali (2004). Sanawat al-Jamr [Years of Charcoal] (in Arabic). Iraq: al-Markaz al-Islami al-Mu'asir. p. 285.
^ ^a ^b al-Alawi, Jaffar (2012). al-Mujahid al-Sayed Hadi al-Modarresi Fi Muwajahat al-Tughyan al-Khalifi [The Mujahid Sayyid Hadi al-Modarresi in the face of Al Khalifa's tyranny].
^ ^a ^b "al-Sira al-Thatiya" [The Biography]. Office of Sayed Hadi Al-Modarresi. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
^ "Saddam Hussein's legacy of sectarian division in Iraq". Public Radio International. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
^ "Iraq's Oppressed Majority". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
^ al-Majallah (in Arabic). al-Sharikah al-Suʻūdīyah lil-Abḥāth wa-al-Nashr. 1996. p. 71.
^ Anoushiravan Ehteshami; Neil Quilliam; Gawdat Bahgat (21 December 2016). Security and Bilateral Issues between Iran and its Arab Neighbours. Springer. p. 67. ISBN 978-3-319-43289-2.
^ ^a ^b al-Hasan, Abd al-Latif (2018-03-19). al-Ilaqa al-Siyasiya Bayn Iran Wa al-Arab: Juthuruha Wa Marahiliha Wa Atwariha [The Political relationship between Iran and the Arabs: Its roots, stages and development] (in Arabic). al-Ibikan Lil Nashr. p. 394. ISBN 978-603-509-173-2.
^ "al-Wikalat al-Shar'iya Wa al-Ruwa'iya" [Religious Power of Representation]. Office of Sayed Hadi Al-Modarresi. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
^ Marschall, Dr Christin (2003-12-08). Iran's Persian Gulf Policy: From Khomeini to Khatami. Routledge. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-134-42991-2.
^ ^a ^b Matthiesen, Toby (2013-07-03). Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't. Stanford University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8047-8722-2.
^ Blank, Stephen; Ware, Lewis B. (1988). Low-intensity Conflict in the Third World. Air University Press. p. 8.
^ Ayalon, Ami (1990-09-25). Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xii, 1988. The Moshe Dayan Center. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-8133-1044-2.
^ Rabinovich, Itamar; Shaked, Haim (1988-01-10). Middle East Contemporary Survey: Volume Ix, 1984-1985. The Moshe Dayan Center. pp. 393–94. ISBN 978-0-8133-7445-1.
^ "Tashyee' al-Sayyid Hashim al-Qazwini al-Najl al-Akbar Li Ayatollah al-Shahid al-Sayyid Muhammad-Sadiq al-Qazwini Fi Karbala" [Sayyid Hashim al-Qazwini, oldest son of Ayatollah Muhammad-Sadiq al-Qazwini dies in Karbala]. al-Buratha News Outlet (in Arabic). 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
^ "Isabat Marji Iraqi Bariz Bi Virus Corona" [Grand Iraqi Marja Contracts Corona Virus]. Al-Hurra (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-04-01.
^ "Hadi al-Modarresi". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-05-12.

External links

Official website (in Arabic)
Library of al-Modarresi's books by al-Feker E-book Network (in Arabic)

[:022-1] Ṭuʻmah, Salmān Hādī (1998). Asha'er Karbala Wa 'Usariha [Tribes and Families of Karbala] (in Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Mahaja al-Baydha'. pp. 197–8.

[2] "Office of Sayed Mahdi al-Modarresi". www.almodarresi.org. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

[al-Muhtadi_2009_581-3] -Muhtadi, Abd al-Atheem (2009). Qusas Wa Khawatir - Min Akhlaqiyat 'Ulama' al-Din [Stories and Memories - From the Manners of the Scholars]. Beirut, Lebanon: Mu'asasat al-Balagh. p. 581.

[Louër_2011_93-4] Louër, Laurence (2011). Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf. Hurst. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-84904-214-7.

[5] -Muhtadi, Abd al-Atheem (2009). Qusas Wa Khawatir - Min Akhlaqiyat 'Ulama' al-Din [Stories and Memories - From the Manners of the Scholars]. Beirut, Lebanon: Mu'asasat al-Balagh. p. 345.

[6] -Shaykh, Mansoor (1991). al-Alama al-Modarresi, Mawaqifah Wa Afkaruh [al-Modarresi the scholar, His stands and thoughts] (in Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Wa Maktabat al-Mustafa.

[7] -Tehrani, Agha Buzurg (2009). Tabaqat A'lam al-Shia; al-Kiram al-Barara Fi al-Qarn al-Thalith Ashar [Levels of the Notables of the Shia (13th Century)]. Vol. 10. Cairo, Egypt: Dar Ihya' al-Turath al-Arabi. p. 165.

[8] -Mu'min, Ali (2004). Sanawat al-Jamr [Years of Charcoal] (in Arabic). Iraq: al-Markaz al-Islami al-Mu'asir. p. 285.

[:0-9] -Alawi, Jaffar (2012). al-Mujahid al-Sayed Hadi al-Modarresi Fi Muwajahat al-Tughyan al-Khalifi [The Mujahid Sayyid Hadi al-Modarresi in the face of Al Khalifa's tyranny].

[:2-10] "al-Sira al-Thatiya" [The Biography]. Office of Sayed Hadi Al-Modarresi. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

[11] "Saddam Hussein's legacy of sectarian division in Iraq". Public Radio International. Retrieved 2020-01-15.

[12] "Iraq's Oppressed Majority". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-01-15.

[13] al-Majallah (in Arabic). al-Sharikah al-Suʻūdīyah lil-Abḥāth wa-al-Nashr. 1996. p. 71.

[EhteshamiQuilliam2016-14] Anoushiravan Ehteshami; Neil Quilliam; Gawdat Bahgat (21 December 2016). Security and Bilateral Issues between Iran and its Arab Neighbours. Springer. p. 67. ISBN 978-3-319-43289-2.

[:1-15] -Hasan, Abd al-Latif (2018-03-19). al-Ilaqa al-Siyasiya Bayn Iran Wa al-Arab: Juthuruha Wa Marahiliha Wa Atwariha [The Political relationship between Iran and the Arabs: Its roots, stages and development] (in Arabic). al-Ibikan Lil Nashr. p. 394. ISBN 978-603-509-173-2.

[16] "al-Wikalat al-Shar'iya Wa al-Ruwa'iya" [Religious Power of Representation]. Office of Sayed Hadi Al-Modarresi. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

[17] Marschall, Dr Christin (2003-12-08). Iran's Persian Gulf Policy: From Khomeini to Khatami. Routledge. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-134-42991-2.

[:3-18] Matthiesen, Toby (2013-07-03). Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't. Stanford University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8047-8722-2.

[19] Blank, Stephen; Ware, Lewis B. (1988). Low-intensity Conflict in the Third World. Air University Press. p. 8.

[20] Ayalon, Ami (1990-09-25). Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xii, 1988. The Moshe Dayan Center. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-8133-1044-2.

[21] Rabinovich, Itamar; Shaked, Haim (1988-01-10). Middle East Contemporary Survey: Volume Ix, 1984-1985. The Moshe Dayan Center. pp. 393–94. ISBN 978-0-8133-7445-1.

[22] "Tashyee' al-Sayyid Hashim al-Qazwini al-Najl al-Akbar Li Ayatollah al-Shahid al-Sayyid Muhammad-Sadiq al-Qazwini Fi Karbala" [Sayyid Hashim al-Qazwini, oldest son of Ayatollah Muhammad-Sadiq al-Qazwini dies in Karbala]. al-Buratha News Outlet (in Arabic). 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

[23] "Isabat Marji Iraqi Bariz Bi Virus Corona" [Grand Iraqi Marja Contracts Corona Virus]. Al-Hurra (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-04-01.

[24] "Hadi al-Modarresi". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-05-12.

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-[[Ayatollah]] [[Sayyid|Sayed]] '''Hadi al-Modarresi''' ({{lang-ar|هادي المدرسي}}; ''{{transl|ar|Hādī al-Mudarrisī}}''; born 1957), also spelled '''Almodarresi''', is an Iraqi Shi'a scholar and leader. Much of his career was marked by opposition to the government of [[Saddam Hussein]], and he spent many years in exile, particularly in Bahrain. Al-Modarresi returned to Iraq following the 2003 collapse of the Saddam government, and administers humanitarian projects in Iraq.
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+[[Ayatollah]] [[Sayyid]] '''Hadi al-Husayni al-Modarresi''' ({{langx|ar|هادي الحسيني المدرسي}}; {{langx|fa|{{nq|هادى حسينى مدرسى}}}}; b. 1947<ref name=":022">{{Cite book|last=Ṭuʻmah|first=Salmān Hādī|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3ltAAAAMAAJ|title=Asha'er Karbala Wa 'Usariha|publisher=Dar al-Mahaja al-Baydha'|year=1998|location=Beirut, Lebanon|pages=197–8|language=ar|trans-title=Tribes and Families of Karbala}}</ref>), is an [[Iraqis|Iraqi]]-[[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] [[Shia Islam|Shia]] [[Ulama|scholar]], [[Islamic leadership|leader]] and [[orator]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=al-Shaykh|first=Mansoor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_fXAAAAMAAJ|title=al-Alama al-Modarresi, Mawaqifah Wa Afkaruh|date=1991|publisher=Dar Wa Maktabat al-Mustafa|location=Beirut, Lebanon|language=ar|trans-title=al-Modarresi the scholar, His stands and thoughts}}</ref> He is viewed as a charismatic speaker, enamoring many Muslims, radiating a certain magnetism in his oratory. He spent much of his career in opposition to the [[Ba'athist Iraq|Bathist government]], and he spent many years in exile, particularly in Bahrain. Al-Modarresi returned to Iraq following the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]], and administers humanitarian projects in there.
-== Early life ==
+== Family ==
+Al-Modarresi was born into a distinguished Shia religious family in [[Karbala]] in [[Iraq]]. His father is Grand Ayatollah Sayyid [[Mohammed Kadhim al-Modarresi|Muhammad-Kadhim al-Modarresi]], the grandson of grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Baqir Golpayegani (also known as ''Jorfadiqani'').<ref>{{Cite book|last=al-Tehrani|first=Agha Buzurg|url=http://alfeker.net/library.php?id=3324|title=Tabaqat A'lam al-Shia; al-Kiram al-Barara Fi al-Qarn al-Thalith Ashar|publisher=Dar Ihya' al-Turath al-Arabi|year=2009|volume=10|location=Cairo, Egypt|pages=165|trans-title=Levels of the Notables of the Shia (13th Century)}}</ref> His mother is the daughter of grand Ayatollah Sayyid [[Mirza Mahdi al-Shirazi|Mahdi al-Shirazi]].<ref name="Louër 2011 93">{{Cite book|last=Louër|first=Laurence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8wnEtH8oDgC|title=Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf|date=2011|publisher=Hurst|isbn=978-1-84904-214-7|pages=93|language=en}}</ref> He claims descent from [[Zayd ibn Ali]] (died c. 740 AD), the great-great-grandson of the [[Prophets in Islam|Islamic prophet]], [[Muhammad]].<ref name=":022">{{Cite book|last=Ṭuʻmah|first=Salmān Hādī|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3ltAAAAMAAJ|title=Asha'er Karbala Wa 'Usariha|publisher=Dar al-Mahaja al-Baydha'|year=1998|location=Beirut, Lebanon|pages=197–8|language=ar|trans-title=Tribes and Families of Karbala}}</ref>
-Al-Modarresi was born in 1957 to a family with a long line of top-ranking scholars that dominated the ''hawza'' (Islamic seminaries) for many years in [[Karbala]], Iraq. His family includes supreme religious jurists ([[Marja'|marja’a]]) such as Grand Ayatollah [[Mirza Mahdi Al Shirazi]] (grandfather), Grand Ayatollah [[Mohammad Shirazi]] (uncle) and Grand Ayatollah [[Sadiq Shirazi]] (uncle), Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sabzowari (cousin), Grand Ayatollah Sayed Abdul Hadi Al-Shirazi (great uncle), as well as Grand Ayatollah [[Mohammad Taqi Al Modarresi]] (brother).
+== Biography ==
-Al-Modarresi started his religious education in the Islamic seminary of Karbala at the age of three and actively sought his religious studies under the auspices of many high ranking scholars. He completed the secondary part of the curriculum by the age of nine. Due to his distinguished abilities Almodarresi received the recognition of several maraje’ who appointed him as their special representative. While engaged in preaching Islam in Bahrain and at the young age of 26 Grand Ayatollah Sabzewari and Grand Ayatollah [[Shahab al-Din Mar'ashi Najafi|Mar’ashi Najafi]] also awarded Almodarresi power of representation in which they praised him and labeled him as “scholar worthy of taking a leadership position” and urging Muslims to follow his lead.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
+=== Early life ===
-== Opposition to Saddam Hussein==
+Al-Modarresi began his religious education in the religious seminaries of Karbala, at the age of thirteen. He actively sought his religious studies under the auspices of many high ranking scholars, such as Sheikh Hasan al-A'lami, Sheikh Muhammad al-Karbassi, Shaykh Jafar al-Rushti, Shaykh Muhamamd-Husayn al-Mazindarani and his uncles, Sayyids [[Mohammad al-Husayni al-Shirazi|Muhammad]], Hassan and Sadiq al-Shirazi.<ref>{{Cite book|last=al-Mu'min|first=Ali|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6uvXAAAAMAAJ|title=Sanawat al-Jamr|date=2004|publisher=al-Markaz al-Islami al-Mu'asir|location=Iraq|pages=285|language=ar|trans-title=Years of Charcoal}}</ref><ref name=":022"/> In the late sixties, he and his uncle, [[Mujtaba Hussaini Shirazi|Mujtaba al-Shirazi]], attended the class of Sayyid [[Ruhollah Khomeini]], and became one of his closest students.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=al-Alawi|first=Jaffar|title=al-Mujahid al-Sayed Hadi al-Modarresi Fi Muwajahat al-Tughyan al-Khalifi|year=2012|trans-title=The Mujahid Sayyid Hadi al-Modarresi in the face of Al Khalifa's tyranny}}</ref> He completed the advanced level of his religious education in his early twenties.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://modarresi.org/biography/index.html|title=al-Sira al-Thatiya|website=Office of Sayed Hadi Al-Modarresi|trans-title=The Biography|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref>
-Al-Modarresi's advocacy of  political freedom and strong stance against terrorism started from an early age when Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq. Seventeen members of his wife's family were executed by Saddam's regime or simply disappeared in the notorious [[Baathist]] penitentiaries. Almodarresi wrote the first book openly attacking the Iraqi regime ever to be published by a religious scholar. Published under a pseudonym in Beirut, the book was titled ''No To Rulers of Iraq'' and sparked a massive political crisis in Baghdad and caused the Baathist regime to issue an ultimatum for the removal of all Lebanese nationals from Iraq within 72 hours.{{citation needed|date=November 2011}}
+=== Bathist opposition ===
-Al-Modarresi's eluded execution by moving from house to house, often living in cellars for months and traveling in disguise. His uncle Ayatollah Sayed Hassan al-Shirazi was gunned down by Iraqi government assassins in Beirut for his role as a key opposition figure to Saddam's regime.{{citation needed|date=November 2011}}
+Al-Modarresi's advocacy of political freedom and strong stance against terrorism started from an early age when [[Saddam Hussein]] took power in Iraq. Seventeen members of his wife's family–Al-Qazwini–were executed by Saddam's regime or simply disappeared in the notorious Bathist penitentiaries. Al-Modarresi wrote the first book to openly attack the regime, published by a religious scholar. Published under a pseudonym in Beirut, the book was titled ''No To Rulers of Iraq'' and sparked a massive political crisis in [[Baghdad]] and caused the Bathist regime to issue an ultimatum for the removal of all Lebanese nationals from Iraq within 72 hours.<ref name=":2" />
+Al-Modarresi eluded execution by moving from house to house, often living in cellars for months and traveling in disguise. When his uncle, Hasan was imprisoned, and the pressures of the [[Ba'athist Iraq|Bathists]] anti-Shia sentiment peaked,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-03-20/saddam-husseins-legacy-sectarian-division-iraq|title=Saddam Hussein's legacy of sectarian division in Iraq|website=Public Radio International|language=en|access-date=2020-01-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/iraqs-oppressed-majority-95250996/|title=Iraq's Oppressed Majority|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-01-15}}</ref> Al-Modarresi left Iraq in 1970, for [[Lebanon]], and then briefly joined his brother [[Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi|Muhammad-Taqi]], in Kuwait.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hdIAQAAIAAJ|title=al-Majallah|date=1996|publisher=al-Sharikah al-Suʻūdīyah lil-Abḥāth wa-al-Nashr|pages=71|language=ar}}</ref>
-==Bahraini coup d'état==
-With the escalation of the Ba’athist repression, Hadi fled Iraq and found sanctuary in [[Bahrain]], where he gained citizenship in 1974,<ref name="EhteshamiQuilliam2016">{{cite book|author1=Anoushiravan Ehteshami|author2=Neil Quilliam|author3=Gawdat Bahgat|title=Security and Bilateral Issues between Iran and its Arab Neighbours|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NpLJDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA67|date=21 December 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-43289-2|pages=67–}}</ref> and rose to international prominence. In 1979, Hadi Al-Modarresi left Bahrain for Iran, either because his passport expired, or because he was deported.<ref name="RamazaniKechichian1988">{{cite book|author1=Rouhollah K. Ramazani|author2=Joseph A. Kechichian|title=The Gulf Cooperation Council: Record and Analysis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyXcVOV4G6YC&pg=PA33|year=1988|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-1148-9|pages=33–}}</ref>
+=== Bahraini leadership ===
-In 1981, Hadi's brother Taqi formed the [[Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain]], and appointed Hadi as leader of the organization. The professed aim of the Front was the ‘uprising of all Muslims under Imam Khomeini’.<ref>Iran’s Persian Gulf Policy: From Khomeini to Khatami by Christin Marschall, Routledge, 2003, p32</ref> It came to international prominence as the front organization for the [[1981 Bahraini coup d'état attempt|1981 failed coup in Bahrain]], which attempted to install Hadi Almodarresi as the spiritual leader of a theocratic Shia state.<ref>Low Intensity Conflict in the Third World Stephen Blank, et al, Inc NetLibrary, Press, Air University (U.S.), 1988, p8</ref> Al-Modarresi in addition to heading the IFLB served as Khomeini's "personal representative" in Bahrain.<ref>Iran’s Persian Gulf Policy: From Khomeini to Khatami by Christin Marschall, Routledge, 2003, p32</ref>
+In 1973, he emigrated to Bahrain, and exercised his religious activism there. In 1974, he was granted [[Bahrain]]i citizenship.<ref name="EhteshamiQuilliam2016">{{cite book|author1=Anoushiravan Ehteshami|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NpLJDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA67|title=Security and Bilateral Issues between Iran and its Arab Neighbours|author2=Neil Quilliam|author3=Gawdat Bahgat|date=21 December 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-43289-2|pages=67}}</ref> In Bahrain, al-Modarresi rose to national prominence, and was awarded with power of representation from grand religious authorities such as Muhammad al-Shirazi, Ruhollah Khomeini,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=al-Hasan|first=Abd al-Latif|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gw5SDwAAQBAJ|title=al-Ilaqa al-Siyasiya Bayn Iran Wa al-Arab: Juthuruha Wa Marahiliha Wa Atwariha|date=2018-03-19|publisher=al-Ibikan Lil Nashr|isbn=978-603-509-173-2|pages=394|language=ar|trans-title=The Political relationship between Iran and the Arabs: Its roots, stages and development}}</ref> [[Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi|Shihab al-Din al-Marashi]], and [[Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari]], being labelled as a scholar "worthy of taking a leadership position" and urging Muslims to follow his lead.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://modarresi.org/biography/bio_rep_index.html|title=al-Wikalat al-Shar'iya Wa al-Ruwa'iya|website=Office of Sayed Hadi Al-Modarresi|trans-title=Religious Power of Representation|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Marschall|first=Dr Christin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zMerz59o71IC|title=Iran's Persian Gulf Policy: From Khomeini to Khatami|date=2003-12-08|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-42991-2|pages=32|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Matthiesen|first=Toby|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cv9-wwT0tHcC&pg=PA40|title=Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't|date=2013-07-03|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-8722-2|pages=40|language=en}}</ref>
+In 1979, the Bahraini authorities placed a travel ban on al-Modarresi, after his organisation, the [[Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain|Islamic Front for Liberation of Bahrain]] (a branch of his brother's (Muhammad-Taqi) larger [[Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi#Activism|risali]] movement), was announced in the press, being dubbed as an organisation that wanted to import the [[Iranian Revolution|Iranian revolution]] into Bahrain, and pointing the finger at al-Modarresi, as its leader.<ref name=":1" /> In August of that year, he was kidnapped by the Bahraini intelligence and locked up in a car for up to fourteen hours. However, there was an international uproar, with the interference of some of the Islamic republic's senior leaders, and [[Yasser Arafat]] personally, that pressured the Bahraini government to release him, and send him over to Iran, with an apology.<ref name=":0" />
-==Exile in Iran==
-As a founding member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ([[SCIRI]]) and senior director of the [[Islamic Action Organization]], Almodarresi was one of the most active figures of the Iraqi opposition in exile. While continuing his religious activities and writing over 250 published books, Almodarresi was closely involved in efforts to expose and bring down the regime in Baghdad. He was also able to escape a number of assassination attempts abroad, including one in Brazil in 1991 as well as two more attempts against his life in Syria by Ba'athist{{clarify|The Iraqi ones, not the Syrian ones?|date=March 2018}} intelligence operatives in 2001.{{citation needed|date=November 2011}}
+===Exile in Iran===
-== Return to Iraq ==
+Whilst in Iran, al-Modarresi continued his activism and kept supporting the Bahraini population against the [[House of Khalifa|Al Khalifah]] regime. The IFLB came to prominence as the front organisation for the [[1981 Bahraini coup d'état attempt|1981 coup]], which attempted to install al-Modarresi as the spiritual leader of a newly established theocratic Shia state.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Blank|first1=Stephen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_RiAAAAMAAJ|title=Low-intensity Conflict in the Third World|last2=Ware|first2=Lewis B.|date=1988|publisher=Air University Press|pages=8|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ayalon|first=Ami|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gce1I2KAxdwC|title=Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xii, 1988|date=1990-09-25|publisher=The Moshe Dayan Center|isbn=978-0-8133-1044-2|pages=429|language=en}}</ref> However the coup failed, and so al-Modarresi reorganised the structure of the Front, focusing on its information efforts in Europe.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Rabinovich|first1=Itamar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1XjHn8rrl4C|title=Middle East Contemporary Survey: Volume Ix, 1984-1985|last2=Shaked|first2=Haim|date=1988-01-10|publisher=The Moshe Dayan Center|isbn=978-0-8133-7445-1|pages=393–94|language=en}}</ref>
-Upon returning to Iraq after the fall of Saddam's regime, he was greeted by over 30,000 people in Baghdad and 50,000 in [[Sadr City]] and a similar crowd in his native city of Karbala.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
+Al-Modarresi became a founding member of the [[Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq|Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq]] (SCIRI), and was among the active figures of the Iraqi opposition in exile. He was closely involved in efforts to expose and bring down the regime in Baghdad. He managed to escape a number of assassination attempts abroad, including one in Brazil in 1991 as well as two more attempts in Syria, by the Bathist intelligence operatives, in 2001.
-Almodarresi established a television station upon his return to his hometown. He is also involved in several large-scale humanitarian projects in Iraq and has been involved in the building of mosques, schools, medical clinics, orphanages, and has been a stanch advocate of women's rights and consistently speaks out against the oppression of women in his lectures and books. He also facilitates marriage by providing financial help to people who wish to get married and has organized several large mass marriage ceremonies. Almodarresi also founded and currently heads the [[League of Religious Scholars]] which brings together many high ranking Shi’ite scholars or their representatives in Iraq.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
+=== Return to Iraq ===
-Prior to being infected with Coronavirus himself in 2020, al-Modarresi claimed the virus was punishment from [[Allah]].<ref>https://www.memri.org/tv/qom-iraqi-scholar-hadi-modarresi-coronavirus-divine-punishment-chinese-mock-islam</ref>
+Upon returning to Iraq after the fall of Saddam's regime, he was greeted by over thirty thousand people in Baghdad, fifty thousand in [[Sadr City]] and a similar crowd in his hometown, Karbala.
+Al-Modarresi established a television station upon his return to his hometown.<ref name=":3" /> He is also involved in several large-scale humanitarian projects in Iraq and has been involved in the building of mosques, schools, medical clinics, orphanages, and has been a staunch advocate of women's rights and consistently speaks out against the oppression of women in his lectures and books. He also facilitates marriage by providing financial help to people who wish to get married and has organized several large mass marriage ceremonies. sl-Modarresi also founded and currently heads the League of Religious Scholars which brings together many high ranking Shi’ite scholars or their representatives in Iraq.
+== Personal life ==
+Al-Modarresi is married to the daughter of prominent scholar, Hashim al-Qazwini (d. 2009), the elder brother of [[Mortada Al-Qazwini|Murtadha al-Qazwini]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://burathanews.com/arabic/news/69843|title=Tashyee' al-Sayyid Hashim al-Qazwini al-Najl al-Akbar Li Ayatollah al-Shahid al-Sayyid Muhammad-Sadiq al-Qazwini Fi Karbala|date=2009-07-08|website=al-Buratha News Outlet|language=ar-iq|trans-title=Sayyid Hashim al-Qazwini, oldest son of Ayatollah Muhammad-Sadiq al-Qazwini dies in Karbala|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref> He has five sons ([[Mahdi al-Modarresi|Mahdi]], Muhammad-Ali, Mustafa, Husayn and Muhammad-Kadhim). All of his sons are clerics.
+=== COVID-19 ===
+In March 2020, al-Modarresi contracted the virus, but has since recovered and reported to be in good health.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alhurra.com/iraq/2020/03/07/%D8%A5%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B9-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B2-%D8%A8%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3-%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7|title=Isabat Marji Iraqi Bariz Bi Virus Corona|website=Al-Hurra|language=ar|trans-title=Grand Iraqi Marja Contracts Corona Virus|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref>
+== Works ==
+Al-Modarresi has authored more than 250 books. Some of his books were published under different pen names such as 'Muhammad Hadi' and 'Abdallah al-Hashimi', and 'Muhammad al-Amin Association'.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hadi al-Modarresi|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1410467._|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=2020-05-12}}</ref>
+Some of al-Modarresi's books include:
+* {{Cite book|title=God's Sacrifice: The Epic Saga of Hussein and His Legendary Martyrdom|isbn=978-0994240927|language=en|last1=Al-Modarresi|first1=Sayed Hadi|date=12 November 2015}}
+*{{Cite book|title=Heated Debate on Atheism|isbn=978-1548180010|language=en|last1=Al-Modarresi|first1=Sayed Hadi|date=22 May 2017}}
+*{{Cite book|title=How to Beat Failure, Advise on Success and Time Management|year=2002|isbn=978-9953299563|language=ar|last1=المدرسي|first1=هادي}}
+*{{Cite book|title=Art of Success|year=2002|isbn=978-9953299532|language=ar|last1=المدرسي|first1=هادي}} (7 Volumes)
+*{{Cite book|title=How to Enjoy Life and Live Happily|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=And They Ask You About Things|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=Shortcuts To Glory|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=Supplications of the Quran|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=A B Islam|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=Supplications of the Quran|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=Universal Challenges, Refurbishing Civilisation|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=Mannerisms of the Commander of the Faithful|language=ar}} (3 Volumes)
+*{{Cite book|title=Ashura|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=The Martyr and the Revolution|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=The Message of a Muslim.. To Save the World|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=Critique on Marxism|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=Response to [[Satanic Verses]] Book|language=ar}}
+*{{Cite book|title=Friend and Friendship|language=ar}}
 ==References==
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 == External links ==
-*{{official|http://www.modarresi.org}}
+*{{Official website|http://www.modarresi.org}} (in Arabic)
+*[http://alfeker.net/authors.php?id=13 Library of al-Modarresi's books] by ''al-Feker E-book Network'' (in Arabic)
-* [http://www.modarresi.org/biography/index.html Arabic biography], excerpts from a biography of Ayatollah Almodarresi, by Mansour Al Sheikh, "Allamah Sayed Hadi Almodarresi; His Positions, His Thoughts", Beirut, Lebanon 1991. Reprinted in Baghdad, Iraq 2004.]
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