Mohammad Sadiq Al-Karbassi

The author of The Hussaini Encyclopedia is Scholar Sheikh Mohammed Sadiq Al-Karbassi. He was born 5th Zilhaj 1366 A.H. (20th Oct 1947) in the Holy City of Kerbela, Iraq. He comes from a recognised well-educated family and has graduated from established academic institutions of Kerbela, Najaf, Teheran and Qum. Al-Karbassi has lived in Iraq, Iran, The Lebanon, and Syria; he now resides in the United Kingdom. Sheikh Al-Karbassi has founded, or took part in founding, some forty institutions and has …