Jafar al-Hakim


Sayyid Jafar al-Hakim is a high-ranking Shiite Ayatollah in Najaf, Iraq.

Biography

Family Tree

Sayyid Jafar al-Hakim is a member of the well known and highly respected Hakim Family of Shiite scholars.

Early life

Sayyid Jafar al-Hakim was born in Najaf, the son of Ayatollah Sayyid Abdul al-Sahib, and the grandson of the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim, the latter is considered one of the greatest Shi'ite scholars of the 20th century. Besides his studies in secular schools, he joined the Islamic Seminary at an early age in 1977.
Sayyid Jafar al-Hakim is brother to Sayyid Ali al-Hakim.

Ba'ath Party

He continued his studies while imprisoned by Saddam Ba'ath party for more than nine years. The studies, at that period of time, were under the supervision of a number of Shiite scholars and jurists who were in prison with him.
On February 13, 1991 through a daring attempt, he managed to escape from the prison of Saddam, following the Gulf War air strikes on Iraq, and joined the Islamic seminary in another country.

Role in Contemporary Iraq

After the fall of Saddam in 2003, he returned to Iraq to continue his religious academic career, teaching at the Advanced Intermediate Studies level, and he now supervises research sessions of Advanced Seminars level in jurisprudence and principles of jurisprudence. Besides teaching and supervising in other fields of sciences such as, theology, theosophy, philosophy, and epistemology.

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