Fadhil al-Milani

al-Milani was born to a prominent religious family, that emigrated from Medina, and settled in Milan in the 14th century. al-Milani's great ancestor was Ali al-Asghar, the son of the fourth Shia Imam, Ali Zayn al-Abideen.

That same year, he immigrated to the United Kingdom, to pursue further academic studies. Whilst in London, he noticed that the West was hugely lacking in Islamic awareness, and the community was in dire need of services and religious guidance. So he wrote to al-Khoei, informing him of his observations, to which al-Khoei responded positively and informed him of his plans to establish an institution (later becoming the Imam al-Khoei Foundation). al-Milani graduated from Oxford University with a PhD in Islamic Philosophy in 1994.

al-Milani was the appointed representative of the late grand Ayatollah Abul Qasim Al-Khoei in the United Kingdom since his arrival in 1986, and is accredited on behalf of grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

He briefly visited Damascus in 1983, and taught in the Zainabiya Seminary until 1986.

al-Milani was born to Sayyid Abbas al-Milani (d. 1982) and the daughter of Sayyid Muhammad-Sadiq al-Qazwini (d. 1980), in Karbala. al-Milani studied in the Islamic seminary of Najaf in 1962, under Ayatollah Sayyid Abul Qasim al-Khoei for eight years. In 1968, he studied under grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim, until al-Hakim's death in 1970. He studied in a Beirut Law school and attained a BA in 1967. He then went on to achieve an MA in Arabic Literature from the University of Baghdad.

He moved to Mashhad in 1971, and completed his advanced studies under the guidance of his grandfather, grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Hadi al-Milani. He was awarded ijtihad at the age of thirty. He remained in Mashhad for just under thirteen years, organising the seminary of Mashhad, that had 3,500 students at the time, under the supervision of his grandfather.

Sayyid Fadhil al-Hosseini al-Milani (Arabic: السيد فاضل الحسيني الميلاني; Persian: سید فاضل حسينى ميلانى ; b. May 30, 1944), is an Iraqi-Iranian Shia religious authority, professor, author and community leader.