# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mohammad-yaqoobi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:59:50.821Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mohammad-yaqoobi"
name: "Mohammad Yaqoobi"
slug: "mohammad-yaqoobi"
description: "Mohammad al-Yaqoobi is a prominent Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja'. He is the second most widely followed Marja' in Iraq, the most widely followed being Ali al-Sistani. As well as heading the Al-Sadr Religious University in Najaf, he established one of the largest women's Hawzas in Iraq, and oversees many charitable organisations within Iraq. He is an active figure within Iraqi politics, and is considered by the Hawza to be the spiritual successor of Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and the school of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, with the former famously naming Yaqoobi his successor in an audio recording."
tagline: "Iraqi Grand Ayatollah"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sheikh_Muhammad_al-Yaqoobi_1434.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1960-09-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             6.287726358148894
  historical:           5.524950666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.yaqoobi.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Yaqoobi"
    title: "Mohammad Yaqoobi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "محمد موسى اليعقوبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "محمد موسى اليعقوبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "محمد موسی یعقوبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%DB%8C%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C_(%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "محمد یعقوبی (روحانی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4"
    title: "Якуби, Мухаммад"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4537112"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump