Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Milani (Arabic: علي الحسيني الميلاني; Persian: على حسينى ميلانى; b. July 1948) is an Iraqi-Iranian Shia scholar.
[1] Al-Milani was born to a prominent religious family, that emigrated from Medina, and settled in Milan, Iran in the 14th century.
His father was Sayyid Nur al-Din al-Milani, an alem who used to occasionally lead the prayers at the Imam Husayn shrine.
His grandfather was Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Hadi Milani, a leading Shia scholar in Iraq and Iran.
He remained with his grandfather until he died in 1975. al-Milani then relocated to the city of Qom.