The Marja'iyya

GPTKB entity

Statements (54)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Religious institution
Shia Islam authority
gptkbp:centeredIn gptkb:Mashhad
gptkb:Qom
Karbala
Najaf
gptkbp:criteria_for_leadership Piety
Ijtihad (scholarly qualification)
Recognition by peers
gptkbp:followers_called gptkb:Muqallid
gptkbp:fundedBy gptkb:Khums
Religious donations
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Marja'iyya
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Afghanistan
gptkb:Bahrain
gptkb:India
gptkb:Iran
gptkb:Iraq
gptkb:Lebanon
gptkb:Pakistan
gptkb:Shia_diaspora
Shia jurisprudence
Shia political movements
Shia social affairs
gptkbp:language_of_scholarship gptkb:Arabic
gptkb:Persian
gptkbp:ledTo Marja' (plural: Maraji')
gptkbp:location gptkb:Twelver_Shia_Islam
gptkbp:mainFunction Collecting religious taxes (khums)
Guiding Shia community
Issuing religious rulings (fatwas)
Supervising religious seminaries
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:Mohammad_Hussein_Fadlallah
gptkb:Sayyid_Ali_Khamenei
gptkb:Ruhollah_Khomeini
gptkb:Abu_al-Qasim_al-Khoei
gptkb:Ali_al-Sistani
gptkb:Hossein_Vahid_Khorasani
gptkb:Muhammad_Baqir_al-Sadr
gptkbp:originatedIn 19th century
gptkbp:oversees Islamic seminaries (hawza)
Religious endowments (waqf)
gptkbp:publishedIn Resalah Amaliyah (practical treatise)
gptkbp:relatedConcept gptkb:Imam
gptkb:Hawza
gptkb:Wilayat_al-faqih
gptkb:Fatwa
Grand Ayatollah
Taqlid
gptkbp:religion Shia Islam
gptkbp:role Highest religious authority for Shia Muslims
Source of emulation
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Shia_Muslims
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6