{"id":4004,"date":"2020-03-12T04:34:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T04:34:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-26T10:03:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T10:03:56","slug":"the-prominent-islamic-scholar-shaikh-jafar-kashef-al-gheta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/4004\/the-prominent-islamic-scholar-shaikh-jafar-kashef-al-gheta\/","title":{"rendered":"The prominent Islamic scholar Shaikh Ja\u2019far Kashef al-Gheta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>The prominent Islamic scholar Shaikh Ja\u2019far Kashef al-Gheta<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>On 27th of the Islamic month of Rajab in 1228 AH, the prominent Islamic scholar , Allamah Shaikh Ja\u2019far bin Khizr bin Yahya al-Hilli, popularly known as Kashef al-Gheta, from the title of his outstanding book, passed away in the holy city of Najaf at the age of 71. A descendant of Malek Ashtar, the famous general of the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali (AS), he was a student of Shaikh Yusuf Bahrani, but upon arrival in Najaf of Allamah Waheed Bahbahani from Iran, he renounced his previous Akhbari ideas and accepted the Usouli school.<br \/>\nOn the passing away of Allamah Seyyed Mahdi Bahr al-Uloom in 1212 AH, Shaikh Ja&#8217;far Kashef al-Gheta was recognized as the Supreme Religious Authority of the Shi\u2019ite Muslim world. He has written many books particularly in the fields of jurisprudence, principles of jurisprudence, theology and Arabic literature, which besides \u201cKashf al-Gheta\u201d, include \u201cal-Haq ul-Mobeen fi Tasweeb al-Mujtahideen\u201d, and Minhaj ar-Rishad against Wahhabi heresy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\">shiastudies.com\/en<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prominent Islamic scholar Shaikh Ja\u2019far Kashef al-Gheta On 27th of the Islamic month of Rajab in 1228 AH, the prominent Islamic scholar , Allamah Shaikh Ja\u2019far bin Khizr bin Yahya al-Hilli, popularly known as Kashef al-Gheta, from the title of his outstanding book, passed away in the holy city of Najaf at the age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7453,7763],"tags":[10822,18851],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bank-of-subjects-of-articles","category-characters","tag-shaistudies","tag-the-prominent-islamic-scholar-shaikh-jafar-kashef-al-gheta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}