Honorific-Prefix: | Grand Ayatollah Sayyid |
Native Name: | السيد محسن الطباطبائي الحكيم |
Predecessor: | Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani |
Location: | Najaf, Iraq |
Successor: | Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei,Ruhollah Khomeini |
Period: | 1946–1970 |
Religion: | Islam |
Jurisprudence: | Twelver Shia Islam |
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Resting Place: | Imam Ali Shrine |
Death Place: | Najaf, Ba'athist Iraq |
Birth Place: | Najaf, Baghdad Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
Birth Date: | 31 May 1889 |
Muhsin al-Hakim | |
Nationality: | Iraqi |
Muhsin al-Tabataba'i al-Hakim (Arabic: محسن الطباطبائي الحكيم|translit=Muḥsin al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī al-Ḥakīm; 31 May 1889 – 2 June 1970) was an Iraqi Shia religious authority. He became the leading marja' of Najaf in 1946 after the death of Abu al-Hasan al-Isfahani, and of the majority of the Shia world in 1961, after the death of Hossein Borujerdi.[1] He died in 1970.[2]