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We are going to hear a great deal more about Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.(Brief Article)
* We are going to hear a great deal more about Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. A learned and experienced man, he lives in a modest house in the city of Najaf, and belongs to a quietist school of Shia thought that believes that clerics like him should stay in the mosque and leave government to politicians. So far he refuses even to meet L. Paul Bremer or any coalition officials. But Shia Iraqis form almost two-thirds of the population, and they are drawing Sistani into the current political maelstrom, and making him their figurehead. Coalition officials and the interim Iraqi Governing Council had agreed to select caucuses around the country as the preliminary step in the self-government due to start at the end of June. ...
- A grand ayatollah pulls rank.(Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani brings peace to...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Fang, Bay Ozernoy, Ilana Omestad, Thomas September 6, 2004 700+ words
...three weeks of fighting, with a full-scale raid on one of the holiest shrines of Shiite Islam seeming imminent, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani swept back into the city and called for Shiites from all over Iraq to march to Najaf and peacefully retake...
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- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map November 8, 2004 700+ words
...has no militia, holds no press meetings or interviews and communicates largely through hand-written notes, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani has somehow cornered the US into accepting his vision for Iraq's post-war destiny. Less than...
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- Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest September 30, 2005 700+ words
Leading Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani urges his supporters to vote positively in the upcoming referendum on the country's draft constitution. The influential...
- Two top Iraqi religious leaders, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Emmanuel Delly and...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter November 12, 2004 700+ words
Two top Iraqi religious leaders, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Emmanuel Delly and Shiite Muslim Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, met Oct. 29. "It was a very cordial meeting, like between brothers who love each other" and the discussion...
- Listen to The Ayatollah; The constitution should be written by Iraqis who...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek January 24, 2005 700+ words
...group that claimed responsibility made clear that it had murdered Madaen because he was the local representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani (the most respected Shia leader in Iraq). Now, this is not the first time that some among the Iraqi...
- Breaking up is hard to do; President George Bush and his policymakers insist...
- Magazine article from: The Middle East Blanche, Ed November 1, 2006 700+ words
THWARTED BY IRAQ'S worsening sectarian bloodletting, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, the most moderate of Iraq's Shi'ite leaders, abandoned his efforts to rein in his sect's murderous militias...
- Ayatollah Ali Araki, Shiite Muslim Leader
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times December 2, 1994 700+ words
NICOSIA, Cyprus The Grand Ayatollah Ali Araki, supreme leader of the world's 100 million Shiite...broadcast, monitored in Cyprus, announced that "his eminence Grand Ayatollah Araki bade farewell to the living world after a long illness...
- AYATOLLAH ALI ARAKI; MUSLIM LEADER.(CAPITAL REGION)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 30, 1994 700+ words
Byline: Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus The Grand Ayatollah Ali Araki, supreme leader of the world's 100 million...Cyprus, announced late Tuesday that ``his eminence Grand Ayatollah Araki bade farewell to the living world after a long...
