Shaykh
Haidar Hobbollah was born in the southern Lebanese city of Sour (Tyr), to a
religious family, in the year 1973. He joined the Hawza seminary in Lebanon in
1988, and successfully completed study of the foundational traditional Islamic
sciences. In 1995, he traveled to Iran (Qom) to study jurisprudence ( fiqh) and
principles of jurisprudence ( usūl al-fiqh) in the Hawza at the advanced levels
( bahth al-khārij). He has been involved with research and teaching, in Qom,
for the last 27 years.
Alongside his studies in the Hawza, Shaykh Hobbollah completed a
Master’s degree in Quranic Sciences. He then attained a doctorate in
comparative religions, with a speciality in Christian theology.
At the Bahth Al-Khārij advanced levels, his prominent teachers
have included:
> Ayatollah Shaykh Jawadi Āmuli
> Ayatollah Shaykh Waheed Khorasani
> Shaykh Hussein Jannāti
> Shaykh Baqir Al-Irawāni
…and numerous others.
Shaykh Hobbollah has a plethora (20+) of academic works to his
name, in addition to having translated numerous works between Arabic and
Persian languages. His scholarly works have been translated into Persian, Urdu,
Azeri, Turkish, German, English and French
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