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*'''''The Peacemaker''''' is the name of a film; see ''[[The Peacemaker (film)|The Peacemaker]]''.
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*'''Peacemaker''' is the name of a comic book character; see [[Peacemaker (comics)]].
'''Ayatollah Sayyid Husayn Borujerdi''' ('''آیت‌الله سیدحسين بورجردی''' in [[Persian language|Persian]], [[1914]] -[[2003]]) was a Grand [[Shi'a Islam|Shiite]] [[ayatollah]]. His given name is of that of [[Husayn bin Ali]], the fourth [[caliph]] and son-in-law of the prophet [[Muhammad]]. [[Sayyid]] is an honorific denoting his descent from the prophet.
*'''''The Peacemaker''''' is the name of an anti-duelling pamphlet by [[Thomas Middleton]].
==Education & Academic Specialties==
*'''Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers''' is a rock band [[Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers]].
Burojerdi was born in [[Borujerd]] in [[Lorestan]], [[Iran]], hence the surname.
*'''The Peacemaker''' is a name for the [[Colt Single Action Army handgun]], a pistol first manufactured in 1873.
*'''The Great Peacemaker''', a prophet who helped found the [[Haudenosaunee|Haudenosaunee nation]]
In his youth, Burorjerdi studied under a number of Shiite masters of [[Islamic jurisprudence]] such as [[Akhund Khurasani]] and [[Aqa Zia Iraqi]], and specialized in ''[[fiqh]]''. He studied the ''fiqahat'' of all the Islamic schools of thought, not just his own, along with the science of ''[[rijal]]'' Though he is known for citing [[Masoomeen]] to support many of his deductions, Burojerdi is known for elucidating many aspects himself and is an influential ''fiqh'' jurist in his own right. He has had a strong influence on Islamic scholars like [[Morteza Motahhari]] and [[Ayatullah Shaikh Husain Muntadhar]].
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==Tenure as Ayatollah and Marja==
Burojirdi revived the [[hawzah]] of [[Qum]] in [[1945]] (1364 AH), which had waned aftered the death in [[1935]] of its founder, [[Shaykh Abdul Karim Ha'iri]]. When [[Sayyid Abul Hassan Isfahani]] died the following year, the majority of Shi'a accepted Ayatullah Burojerdi as [[Marja|Marja'-e-Taqlid]].
===Efforts Toward Islamic Unity===
Borujerdi was the first ''Marja''' to look beyond [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]]. He sent [[Sayyid Muhaqqiqi]] to [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]], [[Aqa-e-Shari'at]] to [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]], [[Al-Faqihi]] to [[Madinah]] and [[Sayyid Musa Sadr]] to [[Lebanon]].
he established cordial relations with [[Shaykh Mahmud Shaltut]], the grand Shaykh of [[Al-Azhar]]. Together, the two scholars established the "[[House for Bringing Muslim Sects Nearer]]" in [[Cairo]]. Shaltut issued his famous ''[[fatwa]]'' accepting the Shi'a faith as one of the recognised sects of Islam, while Burojirdi opposed those who attacked the [[Khulafa']] in their speeches and writings.
===Political Leanings===
Ayatollah Burojirdi passively opposed the [[Pahlavi dynasty|Pahlavi]] regime's agrarian reforms, which he called "agrarian destruction," as in his view, the confiscations of the Pahlavi shahs disrupted the fabric of rural life and eroded religious institutions.
Borujerdi died in [[Qum]] on 13th [[Shawaal]] [[1961]].
==See also==
*[[List of Ayatollahs]]
*[[List of Marjas]]
==Sources and External Links==
http://www.playandlearn.org/reader.asp?Type=Scholars&fn=114
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