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Najafi was formally educated in the hawza of Najaf, and also spent three years studying in the Iraqi cities of Samarra and Kadhimiya; two important centres of Shia learning. He excelled in areas of fiqh, `ilm al-rijal, ‘aql, and kalam. Najafi received ijazahs from numerous scholars, among them Lady Amin.
