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al-Sharif al-Murtada
Al-Sharif al-Murtada was a Twelver Shia theologian, jurist and poet of Baghdad, a descendant of the Prophet through the Imam Musa al-Kazim and brother of al-Sharif al-Radi. He succeeded al-Shaykh al-Mufid as the leading Shia scholar of the city and led the Talibid descendants of Ali under the Buyids. His works shaped Shia rational theology and legal theory.
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