Biography
He was born on the
twentieth of Jumadi al-Awwal 1361 A.H. (1942) in Qom. His father was Ayatollah Hajj Sayyid
Muhammad Muhaqqiq Damad, who was the son-in-law of Ayatollah Uzma Hajj Shaykh Abdul Karim
Hairi. Sayyid Ali completed his primary school in 1953 and in the same year he began to
study the preliminary stage of Howzah studies and Arabic literature. While studying in the
Howzah he was privately tutored in high school studies.
In 1960-61 after completing the pre-Kharij texts of Rasa’il and Makasib,
Muqqiq Damad began the Kharij stage of his Howzah studies, while studying the book
Kifayatul Usool (the last text of Pre-Kharij studies). He attended the Kharij stage
lectures of Ayatollah Brujardi for six months. From 1961 onwards he attended the Kharij
lectures of his father and Ayatollah Hajj Shaykh Murtada al-Hairi. During these years he
also benefited from the Kharij lectures of the Grand Ayatollahs Khu’i, Gulpaygani,
Mirza Hashim Amuli, Hajj Shaykh Husayn Hilli, and Hajj Sayyid Yahya al-Mudarris al-Yazdi.
When his father died in February 1969, he took up the responsibility of
leading the congregational prayer of the Bazar Masjid in Qom. Along with that he also
undertook some social activities such as establishing a Qardil Hasanah fund - an
association for looking after and educating orphans, cheap co-operative houses for needy
indigents, a mosque and a seminary called "al-Mahdi", and a 200 bed hospital
named "Waliyye `Asr".
After the victory of the Iranian Revolution, al-Damad took up the
responsibility of reviewing and compiling the judicial laws for which he established an
office for the research and study of the judiciary system. The Judicial Research &
Study Office established by al-Damad is an organization that works in
collaboration with a group of the religious scholars, judges and expert lawyers.
Al-Damad was a member of the supreme administrative council of the Howzah in
Qom from 1981 till 1991. He also taught at various levels of the Howzah studies and
presently is teaching Fiqh and Usool at the Kharij stage.
*His works:
No books, treatises, articles, etc. by the
above scholar are found.
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