# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seyed-mahdi-hosseini-shirazi
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:11:02.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seyed-mahdi-hosseini-shirazi"
name: "Seyed Mahdi Hosseini Shirazi"
slug: "seyed-mahdi-hosseini-shirazi"
description: "Grand Ayatollah Mirza Mahdi al-Husayni al-Shirazi, also known as Mirza Mahdi al-Shirazi, was a Shia marja. After the death of Abu al-Hasan Esfehani and Hossein Tabatabaei Qomi, Mirza Mahdi was considered to be the highest ranking cleric in Karbala, and one of the highest in Iraq, along with Muhsin al-Hakim and his second cousin once removed, Abd al-Hadi Shirazi in Najaf."
tagline: "Religion Scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sayyidmahdishirazi.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1886"
deathDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.83
  momentum:             2.34789391575663
  historical:           3.990321333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%8A"
    title: "الميرزا مهدي الشيرازي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Mahdi_al-Shirazi"
    title: "Mirza Mahdi al-Shirazi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C"
    title: "سید مهدی حسینی شیرازی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%A7_%D9%85%DB%81%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C"
    title: "مرزا مہدی شیرازی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12245945"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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