This is an informative English language biographical account of Ayatollah Sistani of Iraq. We will be hearing more and more about him in the next few months. This website, however, is not objective: rather apologetic account of his life. Washington Post and other newspapers are quite off in analyzing his views. He is no liberal, and no secular. It is not true that he believes in separation of church and state, as Washington Post keeps saying, and he can be quite rigid on social issues (he thinks music is impermissible, for example (from his Arabic fatwas).