Kamal al-Haydari

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Kamal al-Haydari آيت الله العظمى السيد كمال الحيدري
File:Sayyidalhaydari.jpg Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Kamal al-Haydari
Title	Grand Ayatollah
Personal
Born	1956 (age 67–68) Karbala, Iraq
Religion	Shia Islam
Senior posting
Based in	Qom, Iran
Website	official website

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Kamal bin Baqir bin Hassan al-Haydari (Arabic: السيد كمال بن باقر بن حسن الحيدري آيت الله العظمى; born 1956) is a Twelver Shia Marja' from Iraq, who resides in Qom, Iran.

He has more than 6000 lectures and 137 books in various Islamic sciences.

Biography

Kamal al-Haydari was born in Karbala in Iraq in 1956 (1376 AH). His father was a cloth dealer. He completed his elementary, middle and high school education in public schools. He then moved to Najaf in 1974 and completed his academic study at the Faculty of Fiqh. He gained a bachelor's degree in Islamic sciences with honors in 1978 and then migrated to Kuwait in 1980 due to the prosecution of authorities, and then to Damascus, Syria, where he remained for nearly four months. He then left for Iran via Turkey and settled in the city of Qom.

His Teachers

• Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei
• Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr
• Mohammed Taqi al-Hakim
• Sayyid Ali Al Gharawi
• Abdul-Sahib al-Hakim
• Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi
• Abdullah Jawadi Amoli
• Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli
• Nasrallah Mustanbit
• Abbas Alqojani
• Hussein Alaithan
• Muslim Al-Hilli

Compilations and Books

Quranic Books

• Koran preservation from distortion
• Interpretation of the Koran
• Logic of understanding of the Koran - methodological foundations of explanation and interpretation in the light of a verse of the Kursi (3 parts)
• Pulp of interpretation of the book Koran
• Miracles between theory and practice
• Piety in the Qur'an
• Joseph the righteous
• Interpretative approach of Allamah al-Haydari
• Assets of interpretation (two parts)

Ideological Books

• Science of Imam, researches in fact and matters of the science of infallible Imams
• Landmarks of Umayyad Islam
• Tawheed (two parts)
• Tawheed lessons
• Researches in Creed (two parts)
• Formative mandate, its reality and manifestations
• Philosophy of Religion
• Firmly grounded in science
• Concept of intercession in the Qur'an
• In the shadow of faith and morals
• Understanding of religion
• Intercession
• Infallibility - analytical researches in light of the Quranic approach
• Ma'aad in Koranic vision (two parts)
• The Greatest Name, its truth and manifestations
• Hyperbole, its reality and divisions
• Bada and how it occurs in the divine science
• Fate and destiny and the problematic of human act disability
• Authority and making of situation and interpretation
• Tawheed of Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah
• Researches on the Imamate

Philosophical Books

• The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra Shirazi: a Reading in the Focal Points of Transcendent Wisdom
• Ma'aad (the Return)
• Intellect, Intellector, and Intellected
• Philosophy (two parts)
• An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge as discussed among Islamic Philosophers
• The Essential School of Thought concerning the Theory of Knowledge
• Explorations in Philosophical Psychology
• Commentary on the End of Wisdom (by Allameh Tabataba'i) (two parts)
• Lessons on Transcendental Wisdom (two parts)
• Commentary on Muzzaffar's Logic (five parts)
• Commentary on the Beginning of Wisdom (by Allameh Tabataba'i) (two parts)
• Divine ideals: Analytical Research concerning the Theory of Plato

Fiqh Books

• No Damage, nor reciprocating
• Fiqh approach of Allamah al-Haydari
• A necessary denier, his truth, terms and rules
• Zakat is due and the dispute of its identification
• Landmarks of Fiqh Renewal
• Book (Zakat)
• Selections from the provisions of the women
• Elected of Hajj and Umrah Rites
• Rites of Hajj
• Fataawa Fiqhiyyah - Worship (two parts)
• Fataawa Fiqhiyyah - Transactions
• Research in the jurisprudence of the sales contract
• One fifth of gains profit
• Book (whole of forbidden gains Fiqh)

Fundamentals of Islamic Jurisprudence Books

• Conjecture, a study in the authoritative and its divisions and its provisions.
• Explanation of the first episode of Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr
• Explanation of the third episode of Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr (two parts)
• Explanation of the third episode of Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr
• Explanation of the second episode for Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr (four parts)
• The Reality
• The Fixed and variable in religious knowledge

Moral books

• Introduction to Ethics
• Tawbah, its reality, conditions and effects
• Spiritual Education
• Innovations of Allamah Al-Haydari, in the methodology, Tawheed and Imamate
• Priorities methodology in understanding religious knowledge
• Du'aa

Books on Gnosis

• Knowledge of God (two parts)
• From Creation to the Real (min al-khalq ila al-haqq)
• Shiite Gnosis (Irfan)
• Commentary on Establishing Principles (by Ibn Turka) (two parts)

References

1. Kamal al-Haydari reading in the biography and methodology. Hamid Majid Hedow, printed in Beirut - Lebanon, in 2010, Al Huda publications for printing and publishing.
2. The Official Website of Sayyid Kamal Al-Haydari Office.
3. AlHaydari Documentary Tv
4. Project of Religious Reference and prospects for the future of Sayyid Kamal al-Haydari, Thaqalayn foundation, Syria, Damascus, First Edition, 2012