Mohammad Sadiq Al-Karbassi was born on 20th October 1947 (5th ZilHijjah 1366 A.H.) in the Holy City of Kerbela, Iraq. He is from a renowned family and graduated from established academic institutions of Kerbela, Najaf, Teheran and Qum; he has also lived in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Syria, now residing in the United Kingdom. Al-Karbassi has practiced teaching, authorship, research and Imamate, along with practicing the teaching Islamic bodies of knowledge in different cultural metropolitan cities. He has been the founder, or took part in founding, some forty institutions.

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