Hossein Modarressi Tabataba'i (Persian: حسين مدرسى طباطبايى; born 1952[1] or 1942[2]) is a leading Muslim jurist and professor of law.[3]

Hossein Modarressi
حسين مدرسى طباطبايى
Personal
Born
ReligionShia Islam
JurisprudenceJa'fari/Akhbari
Main interest(s)Shīʿa theology,
Shia view of Muslim history,
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Early life

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He attended the Islamic seminary at Qom where he received a complete traditional Islamic education in Islamic philosophy, theology and law, ending with a certificate of ijtihad, the highest degree in Islamic religious tradition.[4] He also taught there for many years before pursuing his secular education which ended in 1982 with a D. Phil. from Oxford University. He has been a professor at Princeton University since 1983 where he is Bayard Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies.[5] He has simultaneously been Golestaneh Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford since 1988, and a Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University since 1990. He has also occasionally taught at other institutions such as Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris, Yale Law School and Harvard where he was the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2007.[6]

Works

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He is a prolific author of some thirty books and many articles in English, Arabic and Persian. His books in English include Kharaj in Islamic Law (London 1983), An Introduction to Shi'i Law (London 1984), Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shi'ite Islam (Princeton, 1993), and Tradition and Survival, a Bibliographical Survey of Early Shi’ite Literature (Oxford, 2003).[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ Jafarian, Rasoul (2015). مکاتبات دوستانه. قم: مورخ. p. 91-92. ISBN 978-600-91030-0-3.
  2. ^ "Modarressi Tabataba'i, Hossein". worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  3. ^ Rizvi, Sajjad (2013-12-11). "Law and tradition in classical Islamic thought: studies in honor of professor Hossein Modarressi, edited by Michael Cook, Najam Haider, Intisar Rabb, and Asma Sayeed". Ilahiyat Studies: A Journal on Islamic and Religious Studies. 4 (1): 131–135. doi:10.12730/13091719.2013.41.81. ISSN 1309-1719.
  4. ^ Poonawala, Ismail K. (2001). "Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shi'ite Islam: Abu Ja'far Ibn Qiba Al-Razi and His Contribution to Imamite Shi'ite Thought. By Hossein Modarressi. Princeton: Darwin Press, Inc.1993. Pp. viii, 280. Price not available. ISBN: 0-878-50095-2". Journal of Law and Religion. 15: 455–458. doi:10.2307/1051546. ISSN 0748-0814. JSTOR 1051546. S2CID 161243336.
  5. ^ "Modarressi Hossein". UK. Archived from the original on 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  6. ^ "Hossein-Modarressi | Program in Islamic Law". pil.law.harvard.edu. 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  7. ^ "Sayyid Hossein Modarressi Tabatabai". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  8. ^ "Seyyed Hossein Modarressi". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
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