Sharif al-Murtaza

Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā () commonly known as Sharīf Murtaḍā or Sayyid Murtaḍā (Murtazā instead of Murtaḍā in non-Arabic languages) and also popular as ʿAlam al-Hudā (), was a Shia Muslim scholar, jurist and theologian from Iraq, who is considered one of the most important scholars of his time. He was one of the students of Shaykh al-Mufīd. His younger brother is al-Sharif al-Radi, the compiler of Nahj al-Balagha. He lived during the era of the Shia Buyid dynasty of Daylamite origin, which came to rule over Iraq and parts of Iran in 934–1062, which also coincided with the golden age of Arabic literature, and great poets al-Ma'arri were among his contemporaries. Provided by Wikipedia