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Abbas Hosseini Kashani

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “iranian twelver shi'a marja”. Today it says “iraqi born iranian twelver shi'a marja from karbala whose ancestors were from kashan”.
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Abbas Hosseini Kashani (Persian: السید عباس حسيني کاشانی) (born 1931) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja .1 He has studied in seminaries of Najaf , Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei and Muhsin al-Hakim .2 Official Website Interview in Persian زندگينامه3

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iranian twelver shi'a marja

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iraqi born iranian twelver shi'a marja from karbala whose ancestors were from kashan

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