Dr Sayyid Jaafar Fadlallah undertook his seminary education at the Islamic Sharīʿa Institute in Beirut between 1993 and 2010, completing his advanced studies (dars al-khārij) under Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. Alongside his seminary studies, he also obtained undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in sociology from the Lebanese University in Beirut, culminating in a PhD for a thesis on the image of the other in Muslim jurisprudence.  

At the Al-Mahdi Institute, Dr Sayyid Fadlallah is a Lecturer in Islamic Jurisprudence where he teaches a wide range of courses on different topics in Muslim legal thought. In Lebanon, he is also an Instructor of Sociology at the Lebanese University, a Lecturer in Islamic Jurisprudence at the Islamic Sharīʿa Institute, and the General Supervisor of Religious Affairs at the al-Mabarrat Association, amongst other roles.  

He has several publications to his name and has presented his research at academic conferences in Lebanon, the UK, Iraq, Turkey and elsewhere.  

Publications 

• Bayn nakhīl Karbalāʾ. Beirut: al-Markaz al-Islāmī al-Thaqāfī, 1443/2022.
• Rūḥ al-duʿāʾ. Beirut: al-Markaz al-Islāmī al-Thaqāfī, 1443/2022. 
• Al-Arbaʿūn al-nabawiyya. Beirut: al-Markaz al-Islāmī al-Thaqāfī, 1442/2020. 
• Taʾammulāt Qurʾāniyya: al-ḥurriyya al-fikriyya. Beirut: al-Markaz al-Islāmī al-Thaqāfī, 1436/2015.
• Naẓra fī al-manhaj al-ijtihādī li-l-faqīh al-mujaddid al-ʿallāma al-marjāʿ al-Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallāh (riḍwān Allāh ʿalayhi). Beirut: al-Markaz al-Islāmī al-Thaqāfī, 1432/2011.
• Ḥukm al-ḥājib al-lāṣiq fī al-wuḍūʾ wa-l-ghusl. Beirut: Dār al-Milāk, 1429/2009.
• Al-Bulūgh. Beirut: Dār al-Milāk, 1426/2006.