Al-Sayyed Mohsen al-Amin explained

Region:Southern lebanese Scholar
Al-Sayyed Mohsen al-Amin
Birth Date:1867
Birth Place:Jabal 'Amel, Lebanon
Death Date:1952
Death Place:Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque
School Tradition:Shia Twelver

Al-Sayyed Mohsen al-Amin (b.1284/1867-d.1371/1952), also transliterated Muhsin al Amin, was a Shia scholar, biographer, traditionist, and jurist. He was born in Jabal Amil, Lebanon. His most important work is A'yan al-Shi'a.[1]

Early life and education

Family background

Al-Amin was born in 1867 to a well-known Sayyid family in Jabal Amil, Lebanon.He was famous for al-Amin or the trusted one.[2] His father, Abdul al-Karim al-Amili, was a scholar of his time. His father died in Iraq was buried, when he had gone to pilgrimage Iraq.[3] His maternal grandfather was ′Shaykh Muhammad Hussein al Amili al Musawi, was one of the scholars who went to Najaf to education and died there.[3]

Education

Sayyed Mohsen began to study the Qur'an and elementary Arabic grammar at the age of seven under village teacher.[3] Four years later, he learned jurisprudence for three years old under shaykh Musa sharara who returned to Iraq.In 1890, arrangements were made for him to study at the Iraq, Najaf.[3] Finally he was a learned Mujtahid.

Activity

He was among the first Shi’i modernists and received widespread condemnation by the Shia community of Lebanon for his endeavours in attempting to change and reform the religion

His children

Published works

See also

Sources

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin. December 10, 2014. May 2, 2015. WikiShia.
  2. Web site: al-Qurashi . Baqir Sharif . The Life of Imam Zayn al-'Abidin . Ansariyan Publications - Qum.
  3. Book: Ajami . Fouad . The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon . April 2012 . Cornell University Press (August 25, 1987) . 978-0801494161 .
  4. Book: Shaery-Eisenlohr . Roschanack . Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities (History and Society of the Modern Middle East) . 2008 . Columbia University Press (July 3, 2008) . 9780231144261 . 224 .
  5. Book: Abisaab, Abisaab . Rula Jurdi, Malek . The Shi'ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms) . 9 December 2014 . Syracuse University Press; Reprint edition (January 20, 2017) . 978-0815635093 . 57 .
  6. Book: Pourjavady . Reza . Philosophy in Qajar Iran . November 2018 . BRILL (November 8, 2018) . 978-9004385610 . 87 .
  7. Book: Brunner . Rainer . Islamic Ecumenism in the 20th Century: The Azhar and Shiism Between Rapprochement and Restraint (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia) . 2004 . Brill (October 28, 2004) . 978-9004125483 .
  8. Book: Chalabi . T. . The Shi'is of Jabal 'Amil and the New Lebanon: Community and Nation-State, 1918–1943 . 6 February 2006 . Palgrave Macmillan; 1st edition (February 22, 2006) . 978-1403970282 .
  9. Web site: Translator's Introduction . al-islam.
  10. Web site: Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (The Psalms of Islam) . hajij.
  11. Web site: Shams ad-Din Al-Amili . Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi . The Revolution of Imam al-Husayn (a) . Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  12. Book: Brockelmann . Carl . History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 3 - i (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section One: The Near and Middle East / History of the ... Tradition) . 10 July 2018 . BRILL; Supplement edition (July 19, 2018) . 978-9004335813 . English and Arabic .

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