al-Balāghī, Muḥammad Jawād - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Muḥammad Jawād al-Balāghī (d. 1933) was an Iraqi Imāmī Shīʿī scholar, religious writer, polemicist, and poet. Born in Najaf in 1865-6 to a prominent family of scholars and littérateurs, he was educated first in his hometown, then, from 1888-9 until 1894-5, in al-Kāẓimiyya, afterwards again in Najaf, and then (1908-18) in Sāmarrāʾ. Soon after a second stay in al-Kāẓimiyya, during which he participated in the revolt of 1920, he returned to Najaf, where he led an ascetic life, devoting his time to teaching