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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani (b. 1930, Mashhad) is one of the most widely followed marājiʿ (sources of emulation) in Shia Islam, based in Najaf, Iraq. His office publishes rulings and answers to questions from followers worldwide at sistani.org. The Q&A entries on this platform that credit him as the answering authority are imported from that public archive and link back to their original source.