About Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei
Sayyid Abu al-Qasim Musawi Khoei (Persian: سید ابوالقاسم موسوی خویی; Arabic: سيد أبو القاسم الموسوي الخوئي; November 19, 1899 – August 8, 1992) was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja'. Khoei is considered one of the most influential Twelver Shia Muslim scholars. After the death of Muhsin al-Hakim in 1970, he became the spiritual leader of much of the Shia world until his death in 1992. He was succeeded briefly by Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari, until his death in 1993. Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei (Persian: سید ابوالقاسم موسوی خویی; Arabic: سيد أبو القاسم الموسوي الخوئي; November 19, 1899 – August 8, 1992) was a major Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja and Dean of the Hawza of Najaf. Khoei was born to Shaykh Ali Akbar al-Musawi al-Khoei, a Sayyid of Iranian Azerbaijani origin, in the northern Iranian city of Khoy, West Azerbaijan in 1899.
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