Ayatollah Sayyid Jafar al-Tabatabaei al-Hakim (Arabic: جعفر الطباطبائي الحكيم; born 1965) is an Iraqi high-ranking Shiite jurist in the city of Najaf.
He has participated in many seminars and conferences, both on the local and international level, and has supervised weekly symposia for long periods outside of Iraq, and in Baghdad and Najaf.
The studies, at that period of time, were under the supervision of a number of Shiite scholars and jurists who were in prison with him.
[3] On February 13, 1991, through a daring attempt, he managed to escape from the prison of Saddam, following the Gulf War air strikes on Iraq, and joined the Islamic seminary in another country.
After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, he returned to Iraq to continue his religious academic career, teaching at the Advanced Intermediate Studies (sutooh olya) level, and he now supervises research sessions of Advanced Seminars (bahth kharij) level in jurisprudence and principles of jurisprudence.