At the age of 61, Khomeini found the arena of leadership open following the deaths of Ayatollah Sayyed Husayn Borujerdi ( 1961 ), the leading, although quiescent, Shi ' ah religious leader ; and Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani ( 1962 ), an activist cleric.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei (,, ; born 17 July 1939 )

Sayyed Ja ' far Pishevari ( 1893-11 June 1947 ) (, ) was the founder and chairman of separatist and communist Azerbaijan People's Government ( November 1945 – November 1946 ), created and supported by Soviet occupational forces in north-western Iran.

Asadollah Lajevardi, ( also Sayyed Assadollah Ladjevardi ) ( 1935-August 22, 1998 ) was the warden of the Evin Prison in Tehran Iran from June 1981 until 1985 when he was replaced due to complaints of other clergy.

Sayyed Mahmoud Hessaby ( in Persian سید محمود حسابی-alternative spellings: Mahmood Hesabi ) ( February 23, 1903, Tehran – September 3, 1992, Geneva ) was a prominent Iranian scientist, researcher and distinguished professor of University of Tehran.

* 1985 – A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.

* March 8 – A Beirut car bomb, planted in an attempt to assassinate Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, kills more than eighty people, injuring two hundred.

The art of daf playing in Iranian Kurdistan and other parts of Iran has reached us by the effort of Iranian Sufis ; especially in the 20th century by the late Sayyed Baha-al-Din Shams Ghorayshi ( 1872 – 1947 ), Ostad Haj Khalifeh Karim Safvati ( 1919 -…), Ostad Haj Khalifeh Mirza Agha Ghosi ( 1928 -…), Mohi-al-Din Bolbolani ( 1929 -…), Sayyed Mohammad Shams Ghorayshi ( 1930 -…) and Masha-Allah Bakhtiyari ( 1940 -…), Mahdi Sangi Kermanshahi ( 1991 -...).

Mughal emperors Akbar and later Shah Jehan ( 1592 – 1666 ) had bestowed on Sayyed families the Pargana of Sarwat.

Zayn al-Din Sayyed Isma ‘ il ibn Husayn Gorgani ( 1040 – 1136 ), also spelled Jurjani and Gorgani, was a Persian 12th century royal Islamic physician from Gorgan, Iran.

After killing Peer Khan Lodhi – styled as Khan Jahan lodhi – Shahjahan bestowed the title of deceased Peer Khan Lodhi and the Pargana of Sarwat on Sayyed Muzaffar Ali Khan, whose son Munawar Lashkar Ali establed a town in 1633, named it Muzaffarnagar in honour of his father, and Sarwat also became Muzaffarnagar.

Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh () ( also Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh ) ( November 16, 1935 – July 4, 2010 ) was a prominent Lebanese Twelver Shi ' a marja.

Eight Brotherhood leaders were sentenced to death, although the sentence of its chief ideologue, Sayyed Qutb, was commuted.

A physician by the name of Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif or " Dr. Fadl " was head of EIJ for some time, although eventually, Ayman al-Zawahiri, " whose leadership style was autocratic ," would take over.

In May 1891 Sayyed Ali Akbar, a prominent molla of Shiraz was removed from the city by orders of Nasir al-Din Shah due to his preaching against the concession.

Sayyed Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, the founder of the Persian short-story genre, was born in Esfahan into a middle-class family.

Jamalzadeh's father, Sayyed Jamal ad-Din Esfahani, was a progressive mullah and preacher who

Malek al-Motakallamin was long an Azali Bábí, although by the time he became a preacher in the revolution he appears to have lost even this belief, while Sayyed Jamal ad-Din Esfahani was described by his son as a freethinker.

The Mausoleum of Mir Sayyed Bahram was built in the end of the 10th Century under the Qarakhanid Dynasty.

Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Naqi Naqvi ( Arabic / Persian / Urdu: آية الله العظمی سيد على نقى نقوى ) ( born 26 December 1905-18 May 1988 ) ( 26 Rajab 1323 AH-1 Shawal 1408 AH ), also known as Naqqan (), was a mujtahid from Lucknow, India who graduated from Najaf, Iraq.

His father, Hakeem Sayyed Abul Hasan was a Sufi.

Later he received his education from his elder brother, Hakeem Sayyed Abu Habeeb and his father, who was a physician at Islampur near Patna.

Of course, many of their books were glosses and super-glosses on the classical texts they taught, but there were also works on mysticism and collections of poetry ; there were biographies like Maylana ‘ Inyat Allah ’ s Tazkira-i -’ Ulema-i-Farangi Mahall which is the major source of family history ; and then there was a variety of work from versatile scholars like Wali Allah ( 1768-1853 ) who ranged from a commentary on the Quran in five volumes to treatise on government, Adab-al-Slatin. 11 Works which should be noted in particular are: Mulla Hasan ’ s text on logic which has been popular for nearly 200 years amongst those teaching the Dars-i-Nizamiyya, Bahr-al ’ Ulum ’ s study of Rumi ’ s mathnawi, and Mulla Nizam al Din ’ s work on the life and the deeds of this friend and Sayyed ‘ Abd al-Razaq of Bansa, Manaqib-i-Razzaqiyya.

The ambiguities in the British attitude towards the Muslims, increasing Hindu self-assertion and the beginnings of the Indian national independence movement drove Muslim political thought and religious leaders toward a more aggressive British policy … the British attitude toward Muslim elites was a major factor in the eventual subversion of the loyalist policies of Sayyed Ahmad.

The army opposed to Rowcroft was composed of about 15, 000 men entrenched at Belwa this large army of the nationalists comprised troops led by Mehndi Hasan the Nazim of Sultanpur, the Rajas of Gonda, Nanpara, Atrauli and the Raja of Chaurda in the Behriech district and many other talukdars including Guljar Ali, the rebel Sayyed of Amorha.

" Pir Sayyed Ahmad Gailani lead the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan party of which then Colonel Wardak was a member.

In 1972, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi appointed Sayyed Hosein Nasr as president of the university with the goal of modeling the school based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but with roots in Iranian culture.

According to Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi, an academic with a religious organization called the Khoei Foundation, “… the parents feel obliged to let their children do it.

During theological studies in Egypt, Azzam met Omar Abdel-Rahman, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri and other followers of Sayyed Qutb, an extremely influential leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, who had been executed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1966.

A school of Islamic thought which emerged in the 19th Century, led by Sir Sayyed, argues for an interpretative differentiation between usury, or consumptional lending, and interest, or lending for commercial investment ( Ahmed, 1958 ).

Umm Kulthum also sang for composers Mohammad El Mougi and Sayyed Mikkawi.

Along with the likes of Abdolhossein Teymourtash and Farman Farmaian, Dāvar took a lead role among the politicians who voted for the abolition of the Qajar dynasty, opposing such parliamentarians as Sayyed Hasan Taqizadeh, Sayyed Hasan Modarres, Yahya Doulatabadi and Mohammad Mossadegh.

On 8 March 1985, a car bomb exploded between 9 and 45 metres from the house of Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, in a failed assassination attempt allegedly organized by the American CIA and British intelligence.

The center Babur took to himself assisted by Chin Timur Khan the right wing he committed to Humayun who had under him Kassim Husain Khan, Hindal Mirza and Khusrau Shah Kokultash the left wing he entrusted to Sayyed Mehdi Khwaja with Muhammad Zaman Mirza, Mir Abdul Aziz and Mir Muhammad Ali Khan.

During his departure from Iran, Sayyed Ali Akbar met with prominent pan-Islamist activist Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, and at Akbar ’ s request Afghani wrote a letter to the leading Shia cleric Mirza Hasan Shirazi asking the mujtahid to " save and defend country " from " this criminal who has offered the provinces of the land of Iran to auction amongst the Great Powers.

Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed, a Syrian ally in the Lebanese security forces, resigned on Monday, April 25, just a day before the final Syrian troops pulled out of Lebanon.

That same year, he imprisoned Sayyed Qutb, the Muslim Brotherhood's chief ideologue.

The " marabout " is known as " Sayyed " ( سيد ) to the Arabic speaking Maghribians.

** Arranged for air tickets through Altafali Mushtaqali Sayyed, East West travels for the youths who were sent for arms and ammunition training to Pakistan.

** Requested co-accused, Amjadali Meherbux and Altafali Sayyed, to store suitcases containing arms, ammunition, hand grenades and detonators.

* Mohammed Sultan Sayyed, former customs superintendent.

He has studied Islamic philosophy under Morteza Motahhari and has also studied under Sayyed Hossein Nasr who is famous for his critique of Marxism.

625 by Sayyed Ibn Taawoos ( exp.