# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morteza-ansari
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:00:18.977Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morteza-ansari"
name: "Morteza Ansari"
slug: "morteza-ansari"
description: "Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Morteza Ansari Shushtari, known as Shaykh al-Ta'ifah was an Iranian Shia Islamic scholar who was “generally acknowledged as the most eminent jurist of the time\". He is considered to have laid the foundation of modern Shi'i jurisprudence, and his style has been imitated more than any other classical scholar of Shia Islam. Ansari is considered the \"first effective\" model or Marja of the Shia or \"the first scholar universally recognized as supreme authority in matters of Shi'i law\"."
tagline: "Iranian Shia jurist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portait_painting_of_Mortadha_al-Ansari%2C_BW.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1800-05-13"
deathDate: "1864-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.72
  momentum:             8.401985111662531
  historical:           8.000154666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "مرتضی انصاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B6%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "مرتضى الأنصاري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCrt%C9%99za_%C6%8Fnsari"
    title: "Mürtəza Ənsari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ansari"
    title: "Al-Ansari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortaza_Ansari"
    title: "Mortaza Ansari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morteza_Ansari"
    title: "Morteza Ansari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B6%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "مرتضی انصاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morteza_Ansari"
    title: "Morteza Ansari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Муртаза Ансари"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q730317"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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