Grand Ayatullahs (choose your Marja)

[wilayah]

GRAND AYATOLLAHS

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sayyid Ali Al-Hussaini Khamenei RA (martyred February 28, 2026)

http://www.leader.ir - Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu (and more)

http://www.Khamenei.ir/  - Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu (and more)

[Mod Note: ^ The above two links are the only sites confirmed by Ayatullah Khamenei. See the reply * in the thread below.]

Books and articles by Ayatullah Khamenei RA: https://al-islam.org/person/ayatullah-sayyid-ali-khamenei

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Al-Sayyid Ali Al-Husseini Al-Sistani

http://www.al-Sistani.org/ - Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu (and more)

http://www.Sistani.com/ - Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu (and more)

http://www.Najaf.org/ - Arabic  (Scroll to the bottom of the page for other languages.)

http://www.holynajaf.com/ar/ - Arabic

Books and articles by Ayatullah Sistani HA: https://al-islam.org/person/ayatullah-sayyid-ali-hussaini-sistani

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sayyid Sadiq Al-Shirazi

http://s-alshirazi.com/ - Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu (and more)

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sheikh Vahid Khorasani

http://wahidkhorasani.com/English - English

http://wahidkhorasani.com/عربي - Arabic

http://wahidkhorasani.com/فارسی - Farsi

http://wahidkhorasani.com/Azərbaycan - Azərbaycan

Book by Ayatullah Vahid Khorasani: https://al-islam.org/person/husayn-wahid-khorasani

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sayyed Mohammed Saeed Al-Hakeem Deceased 2021/09/03, may Allah bless him always

http://www.alhakeem.com/ - Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu

Books by Ayatullah Sayyed Muhammad Saeed Al-Hakim: https://al-islam.org/person/ayatollah-sayyed-muhammad-saeed-al-hakim

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi

http://alnajafy.com/ - - English - Arabic - Urdu

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Haj Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Al-Modarresi

http://almodarresi.com/ar/ - Arabic 

http://almodarresi.com/fa/ - Farsi

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sheikh Nasir Makarem Shirazi

http://makarem.ir/ - Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu (and more)

Books and articles by Ayatullah Naser Makarem Shirazi https://al-islam.org/person/ayatullah-naser-makarem-shirazi

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sayyid Muhammad Sadiq Al-Rohani

http://www.rohani.ir/ar Arabic 

http://www.rohani.ir/ - Farsi

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sheikh Ja'far Sobhani

http://tohid.ir/ - Farsi - Arabic 

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sheikh Mohammed Al-Yaqoobi

http://yaqoobi.com/Arabic/ - Arabic 

http://www.yaqoobi.org/ - Farsi

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Hajj Sheikh Yousef Saanei

http://saanei9.tk/ - Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Mohammed Is'aaq Al-Fayaadh

http://alfayadh.org/ar/ - Arabic

http://alfayadh.org/fa/ -Farsi

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Saafi Al-Golpaygani

http://saafi.com/ - Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu (and more)

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sayyid Khadhim Al-Haeri

http://www.alhaeri.org/ - Arabic

http://www.almarjeya.com/ - Arabic

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sheikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi

http://www.sibtain.com/default.aspx - Farsi - English - Urdu - Arabic

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Abdul Kareem Al-Mousawi Al-Ardebili RA

http://www.ardebili.com/ Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu (and more)

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sayyid Ahmad Al-Hasani Al-Baghdadi

http://www.alsaed-albaghdadi.com/ - Arabic

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Bayat Zanjani

http://bayat.info/ - Farsi

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Duzduzani

http://duzduzani.ir/ - Farsi - English - Urdu - Azəri

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sheikh Fazel Al-Maleki

http://www.anwar5.net/designed/sites/fadelmaleky/index.html# - Arabic

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Mirza Javad Gharavi Aliari

http://www.gharavy.net/ - Farsi

 

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Ala'deen Al-Mousawi Al-Ghuraifi Al-Bahraini

http://www.ghoraifi-alnajaf.org/ - Arabic

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Shaykh Muhammad Ibrahim al Jannaati al Shahroudi

http://www.jannaati.com/ - Arabic - English - Farsi - Urdu (and more)

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Rahmati

http://www.alrahmati.com/ - Arabic - Farsi

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Mohaqeq Kabuli

http://www.mohaqeq.org/ - Arabic - Farsi

Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sheikh Hussain Noori Al-Hamadani

http://www.noorihamedani.com/ - Arabic - Farsi

Ayatollah Abdullah Javadi Amoli

http://www.javadi.esra.ir/ - Farsi

 

Ayatollah Muhammad Ali Alavi Husseini Gorgani

http://gorgani.ir/ - Arabic - Farsi

Ayatollah Mousa Shobairi Zanjani 

http://www.zanjani.ir/ - Arabic - Farsi

Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammed Hosseini Shahroudi

http://www.shahroudi.com/Portal.aspx?pid=71406&Cultcure=Persian - Farsi, English, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish

Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini

http://www.ibrahimamini.com/node Arabic - Farsi - English - Urdu (and more)

Edited July 16 by Hameedeh
Edited to add new information.

[Hameedeh]

This topic contains photos of Grand Ayatullahs and links to their personal websites in different languages. Thank you to the ShiaChat Development Team for providing the new links to update this topic. They are not listed in order of most knowledgeable or most followers; they are listed by the date that they were received by different members. 

[wolverine]

After the Ghaiba (Occultation) of our 12th Imam (a.s.), it is our Ulema and religious scholars who have kept the bright light of Islam glowing in the face of darkness and jahiliya (ignorance)

http://www.islamic-laws.com/ulemacurrdetails.htm

Edited October 25, 2017 by Hameedeh
Fix broken link.

[Hameedeh]

If you are looking for a marja (to ask questions and follow his example), see this topic. The Grand Ayatullahs are not in a particular order of most intelligent or most favorite, but in the chronological order of when they were added to the thread. 

[Hameedeh]

*

Salam. A link to a German website has been removed from the OP. The English side of www.leader.ir is scrolling the following important notification:

This is to announce that only the contents of www.Leader.ir and www.Khamenei.ir websites are confirmed by the Office of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

[Mod Note: Ayatullah Ali Hosseini Khamenei RA was martyred on February 28, 2026, during a series of large-scale US and Israeli missile strikes that were carried out against targets in Iran.]

Edited April 2 by Hameedeh
Mod Note