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11th-century Persian scholar For other uses, see Al-Tusi . Shaykh Tusi ( Persian : شیخ طوسی ), full name Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi ( Arabic : ابو جعفر محمد بن الحسن الطوسي , romanized : Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī ), known as Shaykh al-Ta'ifah (Arabic: شيخ الطائفة , romanized: Shaykh al-Ṭāʾifah ) was a Persian scholar of the Twelver school of Shia Islam . He is the author of two of the Four Books of hadith ; namely, Tahdhib al-Ahkam and al-Istibsar , and is believed to have founded the Hawza of Najaf . In addition, he was a scholar of ʾUṣūl al-Fiqh and is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential thinkers in Shi’i history. The Cambridge history of Iran (Repr. ed.). Shi'ism: Doctrines, Thought, and Spirituality .
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11th-century Persian scholar For other uses, see Al-Tusi . Shaykh Tusi ( ), full name Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi ( ), known as Shaykh al-Ta'ifah ( ) was a prominent Persian scholar of the Twelver school of Shia Islam . He was known as the "sheikh of the sect ( shaikh al-ta'ifah )", author of two of the four main Shi'i books of hadith , Tahdhib al-Ahkam and al-Istibsar , and is believed to have founded the hawza . He is also the founder of Shia jurisprudence . The Cambridge history of Iran (Repr. ed.). Shi'ism: Doctrines, Thought, and Spirituality .
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prominent persian scholar of the twelver school of shia islam
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twelver shia muslim scholar
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