Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati

Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati (Persian: محمد ابراهيم جناتی, born 1933 in Shahrood, Iran) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja. He has studied in seminaries of Qom and Najaf under Grand Ayatollahs Borujerdi and Khomeini. He is known for his progressive fatwas on women and youth issues, such as:

Teachers and mentors

Jannaati learned from and studied under Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Ruhollah Khomeini, Seyed Mahmoud Hoseyni Shahroudi, Seyed Mohsen Hakim, Syed Abdul Hadi Shirazi, Hussein helli, Mirza Baqir Zanjani, and Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei.

Rare Islamic law and modern

Rare rulings:"

• If the loss of a Muslim man with a non-Muslim woman is essential and leave it caused Muslim outrage and insult to Islam or may not pessimism, there is no problem.
• Muslim man marrying a girl or woman from People of the Books such as Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian is permitted, either on a temporary or permanent basis.
• Relations between girls and boys, women and men, strangers in the community, if not corruption and to preserve Islamic law and to the extent that is necessary, not a hindrance.
• It is necessary for women to cover their whole bodies from strangers except for the face and hands. No special kind and color of dress is recommended; anything with which the body can be covered would be sufficient.

See also

• List of maraji