Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the leading Shiite cleric in Lebanon and a figure seen as being a spiritual mentor to Hezbollah, died aged 75 Sunday.
Fadlallah was admitted on Friday to a hospital in Beirut's southern suburbs, suffering from liver problems.
In recent years Fadlallah, who was born in the Iraqi city of Najaf, distanced himself from the militant group Hezbollah, and promoted moderate social views, including on the role of women.
He rejected the Iranian Shiite doctrine of the rule of the clerical elite."No Shiite religious leader, not even Khomeini, has a monopoly on the truth," he argued.
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