Eṣfahānī, Sayyed Abū al-Hasan, a Twelver Shiite senior jurist (marja‛) of the nineteenth and twentieth/thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (1867–1946/1246–1325.). He was born in 1867/1284 in Madīse, a village in the Lenjān* district of Isfahan1 and became known by the epithet Madīseʾī,2 although he never used it himself. His lineage, through twenty-eight generations, traces back to … Continue reading Eṣfahānī, Sayyed Abūl-Hasan