Bibi Khanum

Bibi Khanum (died 1950) was a female (Mujtahideh) from Najaf, Iraq. She was the daughter of the Shiite scholar Ayatollah Sheykh Mohammad Hasan Mamaqani (d. 1905), and one of her sons became a great Shiite scholar in turn, grand ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hadi Milani (d. 1974).

Mujtahideh

Bibi Khanum
Personal details
Died1950
Najaf, Iraq
ChildrenAyatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hadi Milani
FatherAyatollah Mohammad Hasan Mamaqani

Further reading

  • Al-Amili, Muhsin al-Husayni, Aʻyān al-shīʻah, Dimishq: Dār al-Taraqqī, 1936.
  • Amin, Hassan. Islamic Shi'ite encyclopaedia. Beirut, 1968.
  • Al-Qizweeni, Jawdat. (2005). Tarikh al mu’asasa al diniya al Shi'iya: min al asr al buwayhi ala nihayat al asr al safawi al awal [the History of the Shi'i Religious Establishment: from the Buyid Era to the end of the First Safavid Era]. 1st edition. Dar al-Rafidain, Beirut, Lebanon.
  • Fakhr el-Din, Muhammad Jawad. (2005). Tarikh el-Najaf hatta nihayat al asr al abbasi [Najaf History till the end of the Abbasid Era]. 1st edition. Dar al-Rafidain, Bairut, Lebanon.
  • Litvak, Meir. (1998). Shi'i scholars of nineteenth-century Iraq: the 'ulama of Najaf and Karbala'. London; New York : Cambridge University Press.
  • Nakash, Yetzhak. (1994). The Shi'is of Iraq. Princeton University Press. Princeton, N.J.

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