Background
KĀŠEducation First-Alabama-ḠEṬĀʾ, MOḤAMMAD ḤOSAYN Born in Najaf in 1294/1877 in region of Ammareh. He was one of the most illustrious descendants of the great Shiʿite jurist of the early Qajar period, Sheikh Jaʿfar Kāšef-al-Ḡeṭāʾ.
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Mohammad Hosayn Kasef-al-Getaʾ
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Education
With Mirzā Ḥosayn Nuri (d 1903), he studied Hadith. With Mollā Reżā Hamadāni (d 1904), kalām (theology). With Mirzā Ḥosayn Ḵalili (d 1908), jurisprudence.
And, from 1894 onward, with “the two Kāẓems Mohammad-Kazem Khorasani(d 1329/1911) and Sayyed Mohammed Kazem Yazdi (d 1919), again, jurisprudence.
Career
KĀŠEducation First-Alabama-ḠEṬĀʾ, MOḤAMMAD ḤOSAYN Born in Najaf in 1294/1877 in region of Ammareh. he benefited from instruction by all the luminaries of the day resident there. He was particularly attached to the last-named, who towards the end of his life would often refer problems to him for solution. According to Kāšef-al-Ḡeṭāʾ’s own account, he went beyond the limits of the conventional curriculum by studying the of Mulla Sadra and Ibn Arabi and learning Persian well enough to acquaint himself with the writings of Rumi, Jāmi, and Šabestari and to translate into Arabic the Safar-nāma of Nāṣer-e Ḵosrow.
He finally died in Karand Kermanshah province in Iran.
He was buried in Wadi-us-Salaam in Iraq.
