Jaafari may refer to:

• Jaafari, adherent of Twelver Shi`ism
• Ali Jafari, Head of Iranian Revolutionary Guards
• Ibrahim al-Jaafari
  Ibrahim al-Jaafari
  Ibrahim abd al-Karim Hamzah al-Eshaiker al-Jafari is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, following the January 2005 election. He was previously one of the two Vice-Presidents of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004...
  
   (born 1947), Iraqi politician
• Basshar Jaafari, Syrian Diplomat

Name

Jafar is used as a male first name while Jafari

Jafri

Jafri is a surname commonly associated with Shia Muslims who are the descendants of the 6th Imam, Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, who was a direct descendant of Imam Ali and the prophet Muhammad. Since the Jafri clan trace their lineage to Fatima Az-Zehra, they often use the prefix Syed in front of their...

 is used as a family name in Middle East

Middle East

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, North Africa

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, Central Asia

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 and South Asia

South Asia

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. The last name "Jaafari" is highly respected in the Middle East, especially in Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, etc. and it may mean "belong to Ja'far", a reference to Ja'far al-Sadiq, the holy Sixth Imam and a revered figure by Sunni and Shite Muslims alike. Some "Jaafari" trace their lineage directly to the holy Sixth Imam.

See also

• Ja'far al-Sadiq
  Ja'far al-Sadiq
  Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad al-Sādiq was a descendant of Muhammad and a prominent Muslim jurist. He is revered as an Imam by the adherents of Shi'a Islam and as a renowned Islamic scholar and personality by Sunni Muslims. The Shi'a Muslims consider him to be the sixth Imam or leader and spiritual...
  
   (702-765),holy Sixth Imam
• Ja'fari jurisprudence
  Ja'fari jurisprudence
  Jaʿfarī school of thought, Ja`farite School, Jaʿfarī jurisprudence or Jaʿfarī Fiqh is the school of jurisprudence of most Shi'a Muslims, derived from the name of Jaʿfar as-Ṣādiq, the 6th Shi'a Imam...