Picture of Grand Ayatollah Seyed Reza Hosseini Nassab
Personal
Born
1960
Yazd, Iran
Religion
Usuli Twelver Shi`a Islam
School
Ja`fari
Senior posting
Based in
Canada
Post
Grand Ayatollah
Website
www.hoseini.org
Seyed Reza Hosseini Nassab (Persian: سيد رضا حسيني نسب) (born 1960) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja,[1][2][3] currently residing in Canada.[4] He was the President and Imam of the Islamic Centre in Hamburg, Germany, and since 2003 he has served as the President of Shia Islam Federation in Canada.
Hosseini Nassab was born in Yazd, Iran and studied at the Islamic seminary in Qom.[5] He then went to Canada, where he founded Valie Asr Islamic Center in Toronto,[6] and Ahlul Bayt Center in Ottawa.[5] He chaired the Islamic Centre in Hamburg and founded the Cultural Islamic Center in Berlin. In September 2003, he resigned as head of the Islamic Center of Hamburg.[7] He then returned to Canada to found Imam Mahdi Islamic School in Windsor, and Imam Mahdi Islamic Center in Toronto, Ontario.[8]
^"List of Maraji in Arabic". Archived from the original on 2012-11-02.
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