1. Abu al-Hasan Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Musa al-Abrash al-Musawi, known as al-Sharif al-Radi was an Iraqi Shia scholar and poet.
11 Facts About Al-Sharif al-Radi
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Al-Sharif al-Radi's elder brother al-Sharif al-Murtada was a theologian and poet.
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Al-Sharif al-Radi's work is still published in the universities of Cairo and Beirut, and is part of the course of Arabic literature.
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Al-Sharif al-Radi's mother was the granddaughter of Hasan al-Utrush, a descendant of the fourth Shia imam, Ali Zayn al-Abidin.
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Al-Sharif al-Radi sponsored the family when the property of her husband was confiscated by the Buyid prince 'Adud al-Dawla.
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Al-Sharif al-Radi started teaching at the young age of 17 when he was himself studying.
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Al-Sharif al-Radi founded a school named Dar ul'Ilm in which he trained many students.
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'Adud al-Dawla 8.
Al-Sharif al-Radi devoted twenty years of his life in compiling Nahj al-Balaghah, and traveled to many libraries to collect texts that had recorded the lectures, letters, and sayings that Ali had written or delivered on different occasions.
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The services of Al-Sharif al-Radi are now regarded as significant in the philosophy of monotheism.
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Al-Sharif al-Radi's son was a prominent scholar of his time and after death of his uncle the official post of Naqib al-Nuqqab was entrawarded to his grandfather.
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Adnan died without progeny in 449 Hijri Calendar, and consequently the physical line of Al-Sharif al-Radi came to an end.