Sheikh Mansour Legahei is a distinguished Islamic scholar whose prominence is most high among Muslims in the English-speaking world.

Born in Abadan, Iran, in 1962,  Sheikh Mansour was posted to Australia in early 1994. Since then, with English being his third language, he has achieved great success in delivering academic lectures and courses to reach the English-speaking audience in Australia and around the world.

In 1997, he co-founded the Imam Husain Islamic Centre in Sydney, Australia. He has been its Religious Director ever since its founding. In 2001, he launched the eHawza, a unique online Islamic Seminary program in English, which currently has close to 300 students in almost all English-speaking countries.

Dr Leghaei has publications on various topics which are available in English, Farsi, and Arabic.

Currently residing in Iran, Sheikh Mansour typically delivers an average of 20 classes & lectures/week to students and audiences from around the world, including countries like the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Apart from his weekly classes, Sheikh Mansour is also currently working on the following projects:

– The main contributing scholar at AsktheSheikh.com
– English Tafsir & Translation of the Holy Quran
– Developing Bachelors degree in eHawza

Qualifications:

Sheikh Mansour is well known for his expertise in Islamic Theosophy and Mysticism, on which his many courses are available.

His extensive studies in the Islamic Seminary – PhD in Islamic Theosophy – in Qom, Iran, provide a rich source for his students and the wider Muslim and even non-Muslim audience to take advantage of.

His main teachers in the advanced studies (Bahs Kharej) in the Islamic Seminary of Qom include:

– The Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi who was his main teacher in ‘Principles of Jurisprudence’ for 5 years.
– The Grand Ayatollah Wahid Khorasani under whom he also studied the ‘Principles of Jurisprudence’ for 1 year.
– The Late Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Jawad Tabrizi under whom he studied ‘Jurisprudence’ for 5 years.
– His main teacher in the sciences of Hadith and Rejaal was the Grand Ayatollah Musa Shobairy Zanjani.
– Ayatollah Hasan Hasanzadeh Aamoli under whom he studied Sharhel-Esharaat for 3 years.
– Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli under whom he studied two volumes of al-Asfar (the most advanced text in transcendental philosophy).
– Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi and the late Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Bahjat under whom he studied the book of al-Borhan of al-Shifa written by Avicenna.
– The Late Ayatollah Bahrol-Oloom Mirdamadi under whom he studied Sharhe Manazelu-Sa’erin in Practical Mysticism.

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