SHAFAQNA – Ayatollah Dr Sayed Fazel Milani has been awarded a PhD by the University of Oxford in Islamic Philosophy. He was born in the Holy City of Karbala in 1944.
His paternal grandfather was the late Grand Ayatollah Sayed Muhamad Hadi Milani and his maternal grandfather the late Ayatollah Sayed Muhammad Sadiq Qazwini. Ayatollah Fazel Milani read Religious Studies at the Hawza of the Holy City of Najaf – from 1962 to 1970 under late Grand Ayatollah Sayed Abul Qasim Al-Khoei and from 1968 to 1970, under the late Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohsin Al-Hakim.
For two years of his time in Najaf Ayatollah Fazel Milani taught Jurisprudence, Principles of Jurisprudence and Theology at the College of Fiqh and for eight years, at the Hawza of Najaf. In 1971 he migrated to Mashhad where he attended the advanced fatwa assemblies and completed his studies under the guidance of the late Grand Ayatollah Sayed Muhammad Hadi Al-Milani.
In 1974 he became acknowledged as a Mujtahid in the Holy City of Mashhad. His work on Ijtihad, Lectures on Imamiyah Jurisprudence, published in six volumes, is still currently used in the Hawzas of Mashhad and Qum.