Talk:Muhsin al-Hakim

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in the great and modern library he had established.

grew immensely under his Marjaiyya

was born into a family, the Tabatabai, renowned for its scholarship

always in the forefront to defend Islam and Muslims

It seems very opinionated. --Chiefmartinez 22:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I edited it a little for spelling and so on, while leaving the current point of view, since I am not familiar with his life. --Cam 19:02, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It might seem a little biased (eg. the library example), but it's pretty accurate. Muhsin al-Hakim was the ONLY marja in the Shia world for a period of some years, which is VERY rare. Because of this, he obviously had a distinct influence on happenings in Shiism, esp in scholarship & Iraq. To this day he's held in very high regard by Shia scholars. -KS

I just expanded it considerably based on my own work on his junior contemporary, Muhammad Baqi al-Sadr. Yes Hakim was deeply respected and yes he was deeply influential to modern Iraqi Shi'ism, but that is all the more reason for greater context on precisely what he stood for, which is something a little bit more nuanced than "to defend Islam and Muslims". -HAH

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