Abbas Almohri
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Ayatollah Sayyid Abbas Almohri (Template:Langx; 1912–1988) was a Kuwaiti Shia scholar and one of the earliest among them. Sayyed Abbas was born in the city of Mohr, province of Fars, Iran. He pursued religious studies in the city of Najaf, Iraq and later went on to Kuwait to spread religious teachings.
Ethnicity
Sayyed Abbas is of Hasawi descent with him having an ancestry of people from Al-Ahsa.
His family eventually migrated to Iran, which led to Sayyed Abbas being born there in 1912.
Political activity
Almohri accompanied Ayatollah Khomeini in his revolution against the Shah of Iran. Later, Sayyed Abbas started a political reformist movement in Kuwait. Within a few months after the Islamic Revolution, in 1979, Almohri was forced to leave Kuwait with his family[1] as the authorities sought to prevent an Islamic Revolution in the state (Ghabra, S.N. 1995).
Family
Sayyed Abbas Almohri's family members are Kuwaiti citizens.[2] His eldest son, Sayyed Mohammad Almohri was also a scholar and succeeded his father as the leader of prayer (Imam) in Masjed Shaban, a mosque in Sharq, Kuwait, until his passing in the early 2000’s, in which he was succeeded by his son Sayyed Mujtaba Almohri, a prominent Shia scholar in Kuwait. His younger son Ayatollah Sayyed Mortadha Almohri is a former jurisprudence student and current representative (wakeel) of Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani.[3][4]
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References
- موقع سماحة العلامة المرحوم السيد عباس المهري
- Ghabra, S.N. (1995), Kuwait: A Study in the diametrical state, authority and community mechanisms.