Late Quranic Scholar to Be Commemorated in Qom
The ceremony is slated to be held in the city's Azam Mosque on Thursday, September 18, after Maghrib and Isha prayers.
Representatives of grand sources of emulation as well as seminary scholars and religious and political figures will take part in the ceremony on the 7th anniversary of the great scholar's demise.
Allamah Askari was born in Samarrah on 18 Jumada al- Thaani in 1332 (1901 A.D.).
He began his primary school in Samarrah, Iraq, and then he joined the seminary of that city, according to http://ijtihad.ir/ website.
The Late Allamah Al-Askari was an illustrious scholar who authored several books and was also one of the founders of the Islamic Movement in Iraq. He was an eminent Historian, traditionalist, and one of the Seminary’s learned masters who was expert in so many fields and had compiled many books on Quranic sciences, Imamate, Wilaayat, Reasoning and Traditional Researches.
He passed away in Tehran on Monday, September 17, 2007.
