Sheikh Mohamad Osseiran

Mufti Mohamad Osseiran
Religion	Twelver Shi`a Islam
Other name(s)	Arabic: الشيخ محمد عسيران
Personal
Born	Saida, Lebanon
Senior posting
Based in	- Saida, Lebanon
Title	Mufti
Religious career
Post	Mufti

Sheikh Mohamad Osseiran (Arabic: الشيخ محمد عسيران‎) is the Jaafari mufti of Saida and Zahrani districts of South Lebanon, Lebanon. Sheikh Osseiran is famous as a highly moderate Shi'a-Muslim Lebanese politician who focuses much of his efforts on interfaith dialogue. Sheikh Osseiran is also a co-founder and a spokesman of the World Organization of Pan-Islamic Jurisprudence (WOP-IJ).^[1][2]

Sheikh Osseiran is a dedicated follower of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. He was also a very close associate of Ayatollah Mohammad Mehdi Shamseddine, the co-founder and later president of the Supreme Islamic Shi'ite Council (SISC) of Lebanon. Sheikh Osseiran is also a member in the SISC.

Sheikh Osseiran is married to Dr. Zeinab Dirani-Osseiran.

Early life

Sheikh Osseiran was born in Saida, the largest city in South Lebanon, and ancestral hometown of the Osseiran family, to Hassan Osseiran, a feudal landlord, and Aminah Osseiran, a homemaker. The Osseirans are one of Lebanon's most prominent Shi'a political families. Sheikh Osseiran has five brothers and five sisters.

Education

Sheikh Mohammad Osseiran began his theological studies at a seminary in Tyre, Lebanon. He then moved to Najaf, Iraq, to pursue advanced studies at the major seminaries there. Sheikh Osseiran was a student and follower of the late Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. Sheikh Osseiran remained in Najaf until Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein started pressuring the non-Iraqi Shi'a scholars to leave the country.

Velayat-e Faqih

Sheikh Osseiran is known to be an opponent of the Velayat-e Faqih ideology. Being a traditionalist Shi'a from the Najaf schools of Shia theology and jurisprudence, Sheikh Osseiran favors moderate political policies.

Islamic Centers

Sheikh Osseiran is the trustee of the Husseiniyah of Sidon. After leaving Najaf, Sheikh Osseiran returned to his hometown and was entrusted with the running of the Husseiniyah of Saida by an edict from Grand Ayatollah Khoei.

Works

Books

• الألفيّة في الصلاة اليومية (Transliteration: Al-Alfiyah fi as-Salat al-Yawmiyyah. Arabic for "A Thousand Things About the Daily Prayers")

See also

• Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
• Osseiran family
• Adel Osseiran
• Ali Osseiran
• Ayad Allawi
• Ahmed Chalabi
• Sidon

References

1. ^ http://www.asharqalawsat.com/details.asp?section=4&article=471945&issueno=10769
2. ^ http://www.alanba.com.kw/AbsoluteNMNEW/templates/?a=42743&z=14

External links

• Sheikh Mohamad Osseiran @ SF*BASIC
• World Organization of Pan-Islamic Jurisprudence (Arabic only)

Persondata
Name	Osseiran, Mohamad
Alternative names	Osseyran, Mohamad
Short description	Shi'a cleric, Mufti, Politician, Author, Activist
Date of birth
Place of birth	Sidon, Lebanon
Date of death
Place of death