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Ali al-Sistani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ali al-Sistani was born in Mashhad, Iran (Persia) to a family of religious scholars. On August 25, Ayatollah Sistani returned from London to broker an agreement that ended the standoff in Najaf at the holy Imam Ali shrine between U.S. marines and Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi army. Sistani's edicts and rulings have provided many Iraqi Shia religious backing for participating in the January 2005 elections -- he urged, in a statement on October 1, 2004, that the people should realize that this was an "important matter" and he also hoped that the elections would be "free and fair. . . en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ali_al-Sistani   (1001 words)

Ali al-Sistani Sistani leads the funeral prayers of Khoei's burial. While being conservative in many moral and social issues, Sistani is noted for separating political issues from religious. 2003: Following the US-led invasion of Iraq, Sistani issues fatwas calling on Shi'i leaders not to involve themselves in politics. i-cias.com /e.o/sistani_a.htm   (370 words)

Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Sistani, in contrast, envisages active participation of the ulama and the faithful in the public and legal spheres, though refraining from political involvement in the governmental apparatus (i.e., the state). Sistani's recent call for a pan-Shi'i electoral alliance, in that now even includes the Sadrists, brings to light not only his influence but also the Ayatollah's potential power to expand his civic religious network across sectarian and political partisanship, which is unprecedented in Iraq's history. Sistani's recent opposition to the call by Sunni Arab and Kurdish political factions to postpone the January 30 elections underlines the Ayatollah's concern for possible delays of other important deadlines in 2005 related to the writing of the permanent constitution. meria.idc.ac.il /journal/2004/issue4/jv8no4a2.html   (4176 words)

My Way - News Governing Council members said Sistani's main objection to the interim charter was a clause that could allow minority Kurds to veto a permanent constitution due to be drawn up next year if it does not enshrine their demands for autonomy. Sistani also says an unelected body should not be allowed to pass legislation. Sistani's objections, which followed weeks of wrangling about the wording of the document, had forced an earlier planned signing ceremony to be abandoned last Friday when five Shi'ite council members backed out. news.myway.com /top/article/id/256517top03-08-2004::17:33reuters.html   (908 words)

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani - Why we'd better listen to Iraq's influential cleric. By Ed Finn The division between church and state he espouses seems unlikely; it's hard to imagine Sistani fighting for freedom of speech, gender equality, or a truly secular state. Sistani has earned this respect not only because of his formidable insights as an Islamic theologian but also because of his reputation, even among his enemies, as a man of principle who does not dabble lightly in politics. Sistani has proved that he is not interested in an Iranian-style theocracy for Iraq, but his vision for Iraq's future almost certainly includes a heavy dose of Islamic orthodoxy. slate.msn.com /id/2094814   (1478 words)

Search Tuna Report for Ali Sistani Rendezvous With Ayatollah Ali Sistani He mentioned the one who was killed in Najaf and said that he had talked to him, meaning advised him.... Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is not expected to escalate his position to the point where he might issue a fatwa calling for jihad and armed resistance, since he does not believe in wilayat al-faqih the right of Islamic jurists to rule.... Visible in the background is the golden dome of the Shrine of the Imam Ali, where Ali, cousin of the prophet Mohammed, is said to be buried. searchtuna.com /ftlive/3420.html   (2970 words)

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: A Nobel for Sistani s we approach the season of the Nobel Peace Prize, I would like to nominate the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiites, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, for this year's medal. Sistani did was put the people and their aspirations at the center of Iraqi politics, not some narrow elite or self-appointed clergy (see: Iran), which is what the Iraqi election was all about. Sistani, the late Lebanese Sunni leader Rafik Hariri and the new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas all have in common is that they rose to power by focusing on a positive agenda for their own people, not negating another. www.nytimes.com /2005/03/20/opinion/20friedman.html?ex=1268974800&en=2263470163fe6a68&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt   (835 words)

USATODAY.com - U.S. trying to deal with Sistani's growing influence With his long white beard and bushy black eyebrows, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani resembles Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shiite Muslim cleric who ousted the U.S.-backed shah of Iran a quarter-century ago and introduced theocracy to the modern Middle East. Sistani lacks Khomeini's deep-set eyes and hawk-like stare and, his associates insist, any desire to be Iraq's temporal leader. According to Nasser Hadian, a professor of political science at Tehran University, Sistani represents a school of Shiite jurisprudence that emphasizes the internal logic of arguments, whether the issue is one of daily life or religious practice. www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-01-25-sistani_x.htm   (1088 words)

Middle East Information - MEIC Issues and analysis of the Middle East: Conflicts, News, History, Religions and Discussions “Sistani is not a [Ruhollah] Khomeini” [the spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran], Nakash says. This is the fear of administration officials and others, who believe that Sistani may be carving out a Khomeini-like role in Iraq by acting as the dominant power behind the scenes, Katzman says. Opponents of Sistani have sometimes played up his Iranian roots in an attempt to argue that he maintains some loyalty to the Iranian state. middleeastinfo.org /article3861.html   (1865 words)

Al-Ahram Weekly Region Al-Hawza's muscle Nadeem Eissa, head of the Fadila Party in Baghdad, believes that Al- Sistani's demands are "legitimate" and that the US objections to his calls are politically inspired rather than centred around actual technical hardships. The London-based Al- Hayat newspaper reported that while Annan expressed his fervent wish for the UN to dispatch a technical team to investigate the possibilities of conducting elections and study other alternatives, he nonetheless took no strong stance on the issue and said that more talks need to be held before reaching a final decision. Al- Rube'i confirms this view by saying that Iraqi experts on census and electoral politics believe that elections could still be held. weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/674/re4.htm   (1095 words)

Iraq'd Attempting to co-opt Sistani, who's issued calls for quiet, is a smart strategy: As grand ayatollah, Sistani commands vastly more allegiance from Shia Iraqis than the 30-year old Orson Welles look-alike. By moving into the Imam Ali Shrine, Sadr appears to be trying to settle the "long-running tussle" with Sistani on his terms. SADR V. In public, Moqtada Al Sadr swears fealty to Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani. www.tnr.com /blog/iraqd?pid=1539   (620 words)

news-article.aspx?storyid=23385 Shiite faithful holding a picture of Iraqs top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani chant as they head for Najaf responding to a call from Sistani to march to the holy city, on the road from Baghdad to Najaf in Iraq Thursday Aug. 26, 2004. NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- Rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed Thursday to a peace deal presented by top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani to end three weeks of fighting in the holy city of Najaf, according to a top aide to al-Sistani. Sistani made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday aiming to broker a peace deal to end more than three weeks of devastating fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite militants. www.firstcoastnews.com /news/news-article.aspx?storyid=23385   (666 words)

The Washington Monthly The desire of the U.S. and Iyad Allawi to crush Moqtada al-Sadr in the Imam Ali shrine failed because Sistani was unhappy with it. Actually what Sistani appears to really want is an outcome that will produce from the vast respect religious Shiites feel for him as an object of emulation a government that will defer to him on all the issues he thinks important, without his having to become directly involved in politics himself. Sistani is a major player, but he's not the only one, and his unhappiness does not guarantee failure. www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2004_09/004760.php   (14993 words)

Online NewsHour: Iraq in Transition Key Players PBS Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has professed no desire for political office, but when he called on the U.S.-led coalition to hold direct elections for an interim government, some 1 million Iraqis took to the streets to protest the American plan. "Sistani is the only one in this country who can mobilize millions," one Iraqi political leader told Time magazine in 2004. It is also site to the Imam Ali Mosque, a golden-domed religious site dedicated to a martyred religious leader. www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/postwar/player_7.html   (1255 words)

Grand Ayatullah as-Sayyid Ali al-Hussaini as-Seestani Sistani's office issued a statement denying that the cleric has issued a fatwa calling on Iraqis not to resist coalition forces, Al-Jazeera satellite television reported on April 3. As-Sayyid as-Seestani [also known as Al-Udhma Al-Sayyid Al-Seestani or as-Sayyid Ali al-Hussaini as-Seestani] was born in Rabi'ul Awwal, 1349 A.H. (1930 A.D.) in Mash'had where the Shrine of Imam Ali ar-Ridha (a.s.). The Khoi Foundation on 4 April announced that it still had not confirmed the fatwa, IRNA reported, and added that it is in touch with Abd-al-Majid al-Khoi in Najaf to clarify the situation. www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/seestani.htm   (1065 words)

The Shi'ite Politics of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani Ali Al-Sistani is not a man to create effects or appreciate causing a commotion, so his twenty day absence, which coincided with the beginning of conflict between Imam Moqtada Al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and the American Army plus Iraqi Security Forces continues to raise questions. After arriving Wednesday in Basra by way of Kuwait, the grand ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, who enjoys the aura of a marjaa taqlid, "source of imitation" for the Shi'ites, left Thursday for the holy city of Nadjaf. Consequently, Ali Al-Sistani did not neglect to oppose certain projects concocted for Iraq by the former American Administrator, Paul Bremer, forcing the latter - whom he never met, contenting himself with exchanges of messages - to change his plans. www.truthout.org /docs_04/printer_082904H.shtml   (808 words)

Aides to Iraqi Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Killed Another Sistani aide in Najaf, Abdul Rahim al-Afghani, was found dead on Wednesday, but the city's police chief, Ghalib al-Jazairi, said today that the cause was a brain hemorrhage, disputing reports that he had been shot. Gunmen shot and killed an assistant to Iraq's most powerful Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, together with the aide's son and four bodyguards, an official in the ayatollah's office in the Shiite holy city of Najaf said today. Two aides to Iraq's most senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, have been assassinated, it emerged today. www.truthout.org /docs_05/printer_011405B.shtml   (887 words)

Ali Al-Sistani Escapes Assassination Top Iraqi Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, escaped an assassination attempt and a US soldier was killed in an attack on a convoy. In recent weeks, Sistani has spoken out against US proposals for transferring power back to an Iraqi government by July 1, saying he wants direct elections to be held rather than a US plan for a system of indirect regional caucuses. The attack came just a day before a team of UN experts was expected in Baghdad to assess the feasibility of Sistani’s demand for elections to Iraq’s first post-occupation government, which is due to be installed by the end of June. www.arabnews.com /?page=4§ion=0&article=39101&d=6&m=2&y=2004   (448 words)

Islam Online- News Section BAGHDAD, August 7 (IslamOnline.net and News Agencies) – As fierce fighting continued Saturday, August 7, for the third day running between US troops and fighters loyal to firebrand Shiite scholar Moqtada Al-Sadr, Iraq's highest-ranking Shiite scholar, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, headed to London for "heart treatment". Ayatollah Sistani, who lives modestly in Najaf, spent long periods under house arrest when Saddam Hussein was in power, and generally kept out of politics, the paper said. Although he has made no secret of his dislike for Sadr, Sistani played a leading role earlier this year in arranging a ceasefire that halted fighting between Sadr's militia and the American troops, as per the daily. www.islamonline.net /English/News/2004-08/07/article07.shtml   (729 words)

Ali al-Sistani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani ( Arabic : السيد علي الحسيني السيستاني On August 25, Ayatollah Sistani returned from London to attempt to intervene in the standoff in Najaf over the Imam Ali shrine. Sistani began his religious education as a child, starting out in Mashhad, and moving on to study at the Shia holy city of Qom in central Iran. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ayatollah_Ali_al-Sistani   (729 words)

My Way - News Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who wields immense influence over the country's 60 percent Shi'ite majority, said in a statement the interim charter would make it harder for Iraq to agree on a permanent constitution, a crucial foundation for democracy. Sistani also says an unelected body should not be allowed to pass legislation. Sistani's objections, which followed weeks of wrangling about the wording of the document, had forced an earlier planned signing ceremony to be abandoned last Friday when five Shi'ite council members backed out. news.myway.com /top/article/id/256517top03-08-2004::17:33reuters.html   (729 words)

The One Ring: The White Council :: View topic - Ali al-Sistani Al Sistani is a ‘moderate’ because he isn’t fighting, even though he has called for the withdrawal of ALL ‘Coalition’ forces from Iraq. And to castigate Al Sadr for his behaviour when US forces refrain from even counting the civilian casualties from their Imperialist exercise is wantonly one-eyed. Indeed, one gets the distinct impression that the future of the current democratic process in Iraq is in al Sistani's hands: if he chooses to smile upon it, it could succeed. forums.theonering.com /viewtopic.php?t=82925   (6992 words)

Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani as Mabus Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is not expected to escalate his position to the point where he might issue a fatwa calling for jihad and armed resistance, since he does not believe in wilayat al-faqih [the right of Islamic jurists to rule]. Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani does weld a huge following and could cause serious problems to the United States should he decide to take a more agressive approach to the occupation. Abu Abbas, Hassan Nasrallah, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Muhammad Atef, Ariel Sharon, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Imad Fayez Mugniyah, www.mabus.biz /who/sistani   (340 words)

In the Red Zone: POPE ALI AL-SISTANI Both came from countries not normally associated with their positions--John Paul was the first non-Italian in 455 years to ascend the Throne of St. Peter, while Sistani is an Iranian sitting atop the Hawza religious establishment. In the same way, when Sistani in October declared it the "religious duty" of Iraqis to vote, he, too, provided a spiritual context--if not sanction--for the yearnings of millions of people to rise up and demand control of their destinies. UPDATE: Will at Global Stuff has additional insights into Sistani and the Shia. spencepublishing.typepad.com /in_the_red_zone/2005/02/pope_ali_alsist.html   (660 words)

Bowing to the Mighty Ayatollah - Newsweek World News - MSNBC.com Sistani is becoming more vocal and political because he faces a challenge to his leadership from the more activist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. And last week, when Sistani announced that he is still unhappy with the new American proposal, Paul Bremer rushed to Washington for consultations. Sistani is regarded by Iraqi Shiites as the most learned cleric in the country. www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3990022   (996 words)

Top Shiite Cleric Sistani Returns To Iraq Sistani, 73, who underwent medical treatment in London, crossed into Iraq from the Kuwaiti border, after a senior aide said he intended to "save the city" of Najaf, where rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr's militia have been pinned around the Imam Ali mausoleum by US and Iraqi government forces. "I have had the honour to meet and accompany Sistani, who arrived at the border at 11:00 am (0700 GMT)," said Brigadier General Ali al-Mussawi, head of Iraqi border police in Basra. Najaf, whose Imam Ali mausoleum is one of the holiest Shiite sites, is the scene of fierce fighting between militiamen loyal to Sadr and US-led forces. www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=25458   (416 words)

Iraqi cleric reportedly attacked / Conflicting reports on possible attempt to kill Shiite leader Baghdad -- Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential religious leader, is reported to have survived an assassination attempt Thursday in the sacred Shiite Muslim city of Najaf. A spokesman for Rubaie, Ali Shabout, said in Baghdad that al-Sistani has been moved to a safe place in Iraq for security reasons. A second official, Ali Waad, said four suspects were captured and that some people were wounded in an exchange of gunfire. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/06/MNGP04QHEU1.DTL   (774 words)

MyDD :: Fundamentalists of the world unite But it is unlikely that Sistani's slate will win a majority in the parliamentary elections, and that his slate will form a coalition with some of the smaller "religious" parties, resulting in a more "secular" government (and Constitution) than would occur if Sistani's group had majority control. Sistani is a fundamentalist, but he is patient. First of all, Ali al-Sistani is NO fundamentalist. www.mydd.com /story/2005/1/30/12745/0347   (3313 words)

Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, Bush Iraq occupation Should Ali al Sistani succumb to a case of bad rice pilaf, the Bush administration's post "swim with the fishes" strategy is: a hornet's nest erupts with Iraqi millions chanting nasty things about Bush and Sunni Iraqis (who mostly have little love lost for Sistani). Incredibly, the Bush administration continues addressing immutable holy edicts from Iraq's most revered leader, Ali al Sistani, like campaign jokes from Al Sharpton and the occupation is left standing on their own funeral pyre wondering what the burning smell is. President, it's starting to look like Grand Ayatollah Ali al Husseini al Sistani is posing a grave and gathering threat to America and the world." www.americanfellowship.net /Article14shorter.html   (699 words)

RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has emerged as a pivotal figure in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq by demanding direct elections prior to the formation of a sovereign government. Prague, 5 February 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is widely recognized as the preeminent religious authority among Iraq's Shi'a, but for people outside his community he remains a mysterious figure. To learn more about al-Sistani's vision of Iraq's political and religious future, RFE/RL spoke with Iraqi sociologist Faleh Jabar at the United States Institute of Peace. www.rferl.org /features/features_article.aspx?id=3F49ABB3-2FE9-461E-9BEA-6C12E36ADF80&m=2&y=2004   (1387 words)

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