Allamah al-Majlisi

Muhammad Baqir Majlesi, (1616–1698 AD) (Persian: علامه مجلسی Allameh Majlesi; also Romanized as: Majlesi, Majlessi, Majlisi, Madjlessi) known as Allamah Majlesi or Majlesi-ye Thani (Majlesi the Second), was a renowned and very powerful Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric, during the Safavid era. He has been described as "one of the most powerful and influential Shi'a ulema of all time," whose "policies and actions reoriented Twelver Shia'ism in the direction that it was to develop from his day on." He is buried next to his father in a family mausoleum located in the Jamé Mosque of Isfahan. Born in Isfahan in 1616, his father, Molla Mohammad Taqi Majlesi (Majlesi-ye Awwal--Majlesi the First, 1594 AD-1659 AD), was a cleric of Islamic...