ʿAbd al-Riḍā Khān Ibrāhīmī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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MacEoin, Denis
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Ḥājj Sarkār Āqā ʿAbd al-Riḍā Khān Ibrāhīmī (1340-1400/1921-79) was the fourth head of the Kirmānī branch of the Shaykhī school of Shīʿism. The eldest son of the fourth hereditary head, Ḥājj Abū l-Qāsim Khān (1314-89/1896-1969), he was a great, great-grandson of the founder of the Kirmān school, Ḥājj Muḥammad Karīm Khān (d. 1288/1871). Born in Kirmān, in southeast Iran, on 7 Rabīʿ II 1340/8 December 1921, he studied in his hometown before spending a year at agricultural college in