Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Kamal al-Haydari (Arabic: كمال الحسيني الحيدري; born 1956) is a Philosopher and Shia marja' from Iraq, who resides in Qom, Iran.
This school is generally known for being critical of "accepted" or purportedly "orthodox" truths, and calls for a renewed examination of previously thought of "unassailable" texts or opinions.
Al-Haydari was born into a renowned Karbalaei family, that goes back to their patriarch Mir Haidar al-Husayni, a descendant of the fourth Shi'ite Imam, Ali Zayn al-Abideen.
[6] Al-Haydari gained a bachelor's degree in Islamic sciences with honors in 1978 from the College ohttp://alhaydari.com/ar/category/ebooks/quranic/f Jurisprudence, and then migrated to Kuwait in 1980 due to the rising pressures from the Ba'thist authorities, and then to Damascus, where he remained for nearly four months.
In 2019, al-Haydari supported the demonstrations during the October Revolution in Iraq stating:[9]Corruption has become a phenomenon in the public life of the country facing no religious or legal deterrence.