Sayyid muhammad rizvi biography
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Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi was born in India, grew up in East Africa, and currently resides in Canada.
About Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
His Eminence was born in 1957 in a scholarly family in Bihar, India. He migrated to Africa with his parents where he received elementary education at an English school. For two years, he then studied the Arabic and Persian languages with his respected father and two other scholars in Dar-Es-salaam, Tanzania.
In 1972, at the age of fifteen, he went to Qum to study at seminary (hawzah).
During his ten years stay in Qum, he studied with various teachers and moved from the introductory stage (muqaddimãt) to the intermediate stage (sutûh - equates to graduate level in secular universities), and finally, attended the advanced stage (bahth al-kharij - equals to post-graduate studies) of Ayatullah Shaykh Wahid Khurãsãni.
Then, in 1982, he returned to India where he stayed at Gopalpur for about a year.
In 1983, at the invitation of the Shia Muslim Community of British Columbia, he and his wife moved to Vancouver where he stayed till June 1991 and served Shia I