Abbas Almohri
{{Infobox religious biography
| religion = Islam
| background = #5CA96C
| image = Sayyed.jpg
| caption = Image of Ayatollah Sayed Abbas Almohri
| name = Abbas Almohri
| works = A radius of the History ({{lang|ar|شعاع من التاريخ}}), Ayatollah Montazeri's teaching reports (Never published)
| birth_date = {{birth year|1912}}
| birth_place = Mohr, Fars province, Iran
| death_date = 15 February, 1988
| nationality = Kuwait
| denomination = Shia
| jurisprudence = Usuli
| sect = Twelver
| honorific prefix = Ayatollah Sayyid
| children = 11, including Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Almohri, and Ayatollah Sayyed Murtadha Almohri
| known_for = Imam of Masjed Shaban, founding the Ja’fariya School
}}
Ayatollah Sayyid Abbas Almohri ({{langx|ar|آية الله سيد عباس المهري}}; 1912–1988) was a Kuwaiti Shia scholar and one of the earliest among them. Sayyed Abbas was born in the city of Mohr, province of Fars, Iran. He pursued religious studies in the city of Najaf, Iraq and later went on to Kuwait to spread religious teachings.
Ethnicity
Political activity
Almohri accompanied Ayatollah Khomeini in his revolution against the Shah of Iran. Later, Sayyed Abbas started a political reformist movement in Kuwait. Within a few months after the Islamic Revolution, in 1979, Almohri was forced to leave Kuwait with his family{{Cite web|url=https://www.kuna.net.kw/DayEvents.aspx?language=en&date=26092008|title=KUNA :: Today in Kuwait's History :: 26/09/2008|website=Kuna.net.kw}} as the authorities sought to prevent an Islamic Revolution in the state (Ghabra, S.N. 1995).
Family
Sayyed Abbas Almohri's family members are Kuwaiti citizens.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmgs.gov.kw/DecreesDetails?enc=KXwBxC407GxLTm4I2/NTgcbhqaiHKWIgwX3Jd30PZawDJFz9g0l60MyJO8AFaYvD5b/fenb92X4/mNaJHtdAAH5cbvXR/umKgXWIrnq+6AfLbRH4jCD0LTikRB1S9rSshBIYWyl78JOhdha3r0m6bA==|title=رد الجنسية الكويتية بالتجنس :: 13/03/2021|website=cmgs.gov.kw/}} His eldest son, Sayyed Mohammad Almohri was also a scholar and succeeded his father as the leader of prayer (Imam) in Masjed Shaban, a mosque in Sharq, Kuwait, until his passing in the early 2000’s, in which he was succeeded by his son Sayyed Mujtaba Almohri, a prominent Shia scholar in Kuwait. His younger son Ayatollah Sayyed Mortadha Almohri is a former jurisprudence student and current representative (wakeel) of Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani.{{Cite web |url=http://mohri.net/seerah.php |title=موقع سماحة السيد مرتضي المهري |access-date=2014-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305201726/http://mohri.net/seerah.php |archive-date=2014-03-05 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.sistani.org/arabic/data/1/|title=السيرة الذاتية – موقع مكتب سماحة المرجع الديني الأعلى السيد علي الحسيني السيستاني (دام ظله)|website=Sistani.org}}
Notes
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References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331100154/http://almohri.info/ موقع سماحة العلامة المرحوم السيد عباس المهري]
- Ghabra, S.N. (1995), Kuwait: A Study in the diametrical state, authority and community mechanisms.
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Category:Kuwaiti people of Iranian descent
Category:Kuwaiti revolutionaries
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