Murtada al-Ansari

Shaykh Murtada al-Ansari (in Persian, pronounced Morteza Ansari), d. 1864 C.E. (1281 A.H.), was a leading authority in Twelver Shi'a Islamic jurisprudence in nineteenth-century Iran. For most of his life he taught in Najaf.

His major works are:
*"Faraid al-Usul", on the principles of probability in Islamic law (see Usul al-fiqh)
*"Makasib", on the law of contract.

References

*Momen, "An Introduction to Shi'ī Islam"
*Tabataba'i, Hossein Modarressi, "An Introduction to Shi'i Law: A Bibliographical Study": London 1984
*Mottahedeh, Roy, "The Mantle of the Prophet"