Sayyid Hibat al-Din al-Shahristani

Sayyid Hibat al-Din al-Shahristani (Muhammad Ali al-Husayni, 1884–1967) was an Iraqi Shia scholar and reformer, born in Samarra and trained in Najaf under Akhund Khurasani and Sayyid Kazim Yazdi. He founded the journal al-'Ilm, took part in the resistance to the British in Iraq, served as Iraq's Minister of Education in the early 1920s and later headed the Ja'fari court, and founded the al-Jawadayn public library in Kadhimiya.