Muhammad Baqir Majlisi

Who was Muhammad Baqir Majlisi?

Muhammad Baqir Majlesi, known as Allamah Majlesi or Majlesi-ye Thani, was a renowned and very powerful Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric, during the Safavid era. He has been described as "one of the most powerful and influential Shi'a ulema of all time," whose "policies and actions reoriented Twelver Shia'ism in the direction that it was to develop from his day on."

He is buried next to his father in a family mausoleum located next to the Jamé Mosque of Isfahan.