Jawad Nasrallah

Sayyid Jawad Kadhim Nasrallah (Arabic: جواد كاظم آل نصر الله; died January 2, 1808) was an Iraqi nobleman that served as the 21st custodian of the Imam Husayn shrine from 1802 until 1808.

He hails from the noble Al Faiz family.

[1] After Musa al-Wahab was killed in the sack of Karbala on April 22, 1802, some of the city's dignitaries, Sayyid Ali al-Tabatabei, Sayyid Murtadha Al Daraj (the naqib then), Sheikh Ali Abd al-Rasool (saden of the Abbas shrine), sent a transcript to the governor, Sulayman Pasha, requesting that Nasrallah be the saden of the Husayn shrine, and so on June 2, 1802, an imperial decree was issued declaring Nasrallah the saden of the Husayn shrine.

[5] With the help of the son of Sayyid Muhammad Mehdi al-Shahristani (d. 1801), he combined the mosque that headquartered the Sunni mufti of Karbala with the grand courtyard, forcing the garrison of Karbala, Amin Agha Turk,[7] to relocate the mufti to the small courtyard also known as the Buyid graveyard.

[2] In 1804, he supervised the expansion of the precinct of the grave, adding Ibrahim al-Mujab's grave and rawaq (hallway) to the north west side of the precinct.