Bibi Khanum

Bibi Khanum (died 1950) was a female (Mujtahideh) from Najaf, Iraq. She was the daughter of the Shiite scholar Ayatollah Sheykh Mohammad Hasan Mamaqani (d. 1905), and one of her sons became a great Shiite scholar in turn, grand ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hadi Milani, (d. 1974).

Further reading

• Al-Amili, Muhsin al-Husayni, Aʻyān al-shīʻah, Dimishq: Dār al-Taraqqī, 1936.
• Amin, Hassan. Islamic Shi'ite encyclopaedia. Beirut, 1968.
• Al-Qizweeni, Jawdat. (2005). Tarikh al mu’asasa al diniya al Shi'iya: min al asr al buwayhi ala nihayat al asr al safawi al awal [the History of the Shi'i Religious Establishment: from the Buyid Era to the end of the First Safavid Era]. 1st edition. Dar al-Rafidain, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Fakhr el-Din, Muhammad Jawad. (2005). Tarikh el-Najaf hatta nihayat al asr al abbasi [Najaf History till the end of the Abbasid Era]. 1st edition. Dar al-Rafidain, Bairut, Lebanon.
• Litvak, Meir. (1998). Shi'i scholars of nineteenth-century Iraq: the 'ulama of Najaf and Karbala'. London; New York : Cambridge University Press.
• Nakash, Yetzhak. (1994). The Shi'is of Iraq. Princeton University Press. Princeton, N.J.

See also

• Lady Amin
• Zohreh Sefati
• Amina Bint al-Majlisi
• Iftikhār al-Tujjar
• grand ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hadi Milani