Mohammad Sadiq Al-Karbassi

The author of The Hussaini Encyclopedia is Scholar Sheikh Mohammed Sadiq Al-Karbassi. He was born 5th Zilhaj 1366 A.H. (20th Oct 1947) in the Holy City of Kerbela, Iraq. He comes from a recognised well-educated family and has graduated from established academic institutions of Kerbela, Najaf, Teheran and Qum. Al-Karbassi has lived in Iraq, Iran, The Lebanon, and Syria; he now resides in the United Kingdom. Sheikh Al-Karbassi has founded, or took part in founding, some forty institutions and has practiced teaching, authorship, research and imamate, along with practicing the teaching Islamic bodies of knowledge in different cultural metropolitan cities. His work exceeds hundreds, with his work being published in various magazines and articles and his biography has been cited in numerous reference books. His self-fulfilment is in the Hussaini Encyclopedia, work on this commenced on the eve of the eleventh of Muharram, 1408 H, the 5th of September 1987. He has never ceased his work since then.

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