sistani successors

sistani

3 potential ones:

• Mohammed Saeed al-Hakim - http://alhakeem.com/
• Mohammed Ishaq al-Fayadh - http://alfayadh.org/
• Bashir Hussain al-Najafi - http://www.alnajafi.org/

Transition from Khoei to Sistani took 6 years to finish: https://www.al-islam.org/articles/brief-biography-memory-his-late-holiness-ayatullah-al-uzma-sayyid-abul-qasim-al-khui-yasin

Suggestions of 1-2 year transition? https://web.archive.org/web/20190830164059/http://www.niqash.org/en/articles/society/2917/

After Sistani

• Three main categories of speeches and fatwas since 2003
  • government corruption (including those of Shia Islamist parties)
  • civil society
  • against sectarian conflict
• 2013 fatwa denouncing sectarianism
• 2019 declaration of support for the tishreen
• Marja is relatively new, formed only in the 19th century and never has been formally institutionalized
• Shiraziyyin school of thought in Karbala