Shi'a Islam Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most ...

the guidance of

clergy Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the ter ...

and keeping such a structure holds a great importance. The clergy structure depends on the branch of Shi'ism is being referred to.

Twelver

Usooli Usulis ( ar, اصولیون, fa, اصولیان) are the majority Twelver Shi'a Muslim group. They differ from their now much smaller rival Akhbari group in favoring the use of ''ijtihad'' (i.e., reasoning) in the creation of new rules of ''fi ...

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Akhbari The ʾAkhbāri's ( ar, أخباریون, fa, ‌اخباریان) are a minority of Twelver Shia Muslims who reject the use of reasoning in deriving verdicts, and believe in Quran and Hadith. The term ʾAkhbāri's (from ''khabāra'', news or r ...

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mos ...

Twelver Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

believe that the study of

Islamic Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or '' Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the ma ...

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to ...

is a continual process, and is necessary for identifying all of

God In monotheistic thought, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. Swinburne, R.G. "God" in Honderich, Ted. (ed)''The Oxford Companion to Philosophy'', Oxford University Press, 1995. God is typically ...

's laws. Twelver Shia Muslims believe that the process of finding God's laws from the available Islamic literature will facilitate in dealing with any circumstance. They believe that they can interpret the

Qur'an The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , si ...

and the Twelver Shi'a traditions with the same authority as their predecessors. This process of ijtihad has provided a means to deal with current issues from an Islamic perspective. Generally, clergy in Twelver Shi'a have exerted much more authority in their religious community than the Sunni ulema in theirs. Usooli Shia considering it obligatory to obey a mujtahid when seeking to determine Islamically correct behavior. They believe the 12th Imam, ordered them to follow the scholars ( Fuqaha) who: "...guard their soul, protect their religion, and follow the commandments of their master (Allah)..." The mujtahid they follow or emulate is known as a Marja' Taqleedi. As of 2014 there were over 60 recognized Marj in the Shia Muslim world.

Historical role in politics and society

Modern history

The Shia clerics in this period were closely tied with the

bazaar A bazaar () or souk (; also transliterated as souq) is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa and India. However, temporary open markets elsewhere, such as in t ...

s that were in turn strongly linked with the artisans and farmers that together formed traditional socioeconomic communities and centers of associational life with Islamic occasions and functions tying them to clerics who interpreted Islamic laws to settle commercial disputes and taxed the well-to-do to provide welfare for devout poorer followers. A succession of prayer-meetings and rituals were organized by both clergy and the laity. Bazaars also enjoyed ties with more modern sectors of Iranians society as many Iranian university students were from the merchant class. But since 1970s, the Shah of Iran aroused the defense and oppositions of the bazaar by attempts at bring under control their autonomous councils and marginalizing the clergy by taking over their educational and welfare activities. This combined with the growing public and clerical dissatisfaction with Shah's secular policies and his reliance on foreign powers particularly the United States, led to a nationwide revolution, that saw a high ranking cleric

Ayatollah Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...

and his clerical disciples as its top leadership, that deposed the Pahlavi Shah and founded the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Ismaili

The Imamate in

Nizārī Ismā'īlī The Nizaris ( ar, النزاريون, al-Nizāriyyūn, fa, نزاریان, Nezāriyān) are the largest segment of the Ismaili Muslims, who are the second-largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers. Nizari teachings emphasize independent ...

doctrine (Arabic: إمامة) is a concept in

Nizari The Nizaris ( ar, النزاريون, al-Nizāriyyūn, fa, نزاریان, Nezāriyān) are the largest segment of the Ismaili Muslims, who are the second-largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers. Nizari teachings emphasize independent ...

Isma'ilism Isma'ilism ( ar, الإسماعيلية, al-ʾIsmāʿīlīyah) is a branch or sub-sect of Shia Islam. The Isma'ili () get their name from their acceptance of Imam Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor ( imām) to Ja'far al ...

which defines the political, religious and spiritual dimensions of authority concerning Islamic leadership over the nation of believers. The primary function of the Imamate is to establish an institution between an

Imam Imam (; ar, إمام '; plural: ') is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a worship leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Islamic worship services, lead prayers, serve ...

who is present and living in the world and his following whereby each is granted rights and responsibilities. See also

Imamate in Nizari doctrine The Imamate in Nizari Isma'ili doctrine ( ar, إمامة) is a concept in Nizari Isma'ilism which defines the political, religious and spiritual dimensions of authority concerning Islamic leadership over the nation of believers. The primary fu ...

for further information. The term Dāʻī al-Mutlaq ( ar, الداعي المطلق) literally means "the absolute or unrestricted

missionary A missionary is a member of a Religious denomination, religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Tho ...

". In

Ismā'īlī Isma'ilism ( ar, الإسماعيلية, al-ʾIsmāʿīlīyah) is a branch or sub-sect of Shia Islam. The Isma'ili () get their name from their acceptance of Imam Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor ( imām) to Ja'far al ...

Islām, the term ''dāʻī'' has been used to refer to important religious leaders other than the hereditary Imāms and the Daʻwa or "Mission" is a clerical-style organization. "The Daʻwa" was a term for the Ismā'īlī faith itself from early on. The Dāʻīs are also called Syednas. See

Musta'li The Musta‘lī ( ar, مستعلي) are a branch of Isma'ilism named for their acceptance of al-Musta'li as the legitimate nineteenth Fatimid caliph and legitimate successor to his father, al-Mustansir Billah. In contrast, the Nizari—the other ...

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Taiyabi Tayyibi Isma'ilism is the only surviving sect of the Musta'li branch of Isma'ilism, the other being the extinct Hafizi branch. Followers of Tayyibi Isma'ilism are found in various Bohra communities: Dawoodi, Sulaymani, and Alavi. The Tayyibi ...

for further information.

List of Dai of Dawoodi Bohra Short history The Dua't al-Mutlaqin Al-Malika al-Sayyida (Hurratul-Malika) was instructed and prepared by Imām Mustansir and following Imāms for the second period of ''satr''. It was going to be on her hands that Imām Taiyab abi al-Qasi ...

Contemporary scholars

Afghanistan

Ali Mohaqiq Nasab Ali Mohaqiq Nasab (Persian: آیت الله علی محقق نسب) is a liberal Afghan Shi'ite Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭāl ...

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Muhammad al-Fayadh Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Is'haq al-Fayadh (the word al-Fayadh also spelt al-Fayad), ( ar, مُحَمَّدْ إِِسْحَاقْ ٱلْفَیَّاض, prs, مُحَمَّداِسحٰاق فَیّٰاض) is one of the most senior Shi'a marja l ...

Mohaqiq Kabuli , location = Kabul, Afghanistan , Title = Grand Ayatollah , Period = , Predecessor = , Successor = , ordination = , post = Grand Ayatollah , birth_date = , birth_place = Turkman ...

Azerbaijan

Allahshukur Pashazadeh Haji Allahshükür Hummat Pashazade ( az, Allahşükür Hümmət Paşazadə) is the Sheikh ul-Islam and Grand Mufti of the Caucasus which includes the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Georgia, and Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, ...

Bahrain

Abdul Amir al-Jamri Sheikh Abdul Amir al-Jamri ( ; ar, شيخ عبدالأمير الجمري; 1 March 1938 – 18December 2006) was one of the most prominent Shia clerics and opposition leaders in Bahrain. He was also a writer and a poet. Born in the village of ...

Ali Salman Ali Salman Ahmed Salman ( ar, علي سلمان أحمد سلمان) is a Bahraini Twelver Shi'a cleric and the Secretary-General of the Al-Wefaq political society. In January 1995, the Bahraini government forcibly exiled him to Dubai for leadi ...

Isa Qassim Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim (Arabic: آية الله الشيخ عيسى أحمد قاسم) is Bahrain's leading Shia cleric and a politician. He is the spiritual leader of Al Wefaq, Bahrain's biggest opposition society. He is the fou ...

India

Ali Naqi Naqvi Grand Ayatollah Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi (born 26 December 1905 – 18 May 1988) (26 Rajab 1323 AH – 1 Shawal 1408 AH), also known as Naqqan Sahib, was a Twelver Shia Marja, thinker, poet, writer, jurist and Qur'anic interpreter. He is famous ...

Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Musavi, known as Roohul Millat and Agha Roohi, is a Shia cleric from Lucknow, India. Family background Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati popularly known as Agha Roohi is a Shia scholar from Lucknow, India and comes from ...

Aga Syed Yusuf Al-Moosavi Al-Safavi Syed Yousuf Al-Moosavi Al-Safavi (1904 – 29 August 1982) ( ur, آغا سید یوسف الموسوی الصفوی) was a Kashmiri religious scholar and leader of Shia Muslims. He founded the influential Anjuman-e-Sharie organization. Ea ...

Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi also known as Ayatullah Aqeel-ul-Gharavi ( ar, آيت الله السيد عقيل الغروى ) (born 2 February 1964) is a leading Indian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, thinker, writer, poet, educationist, comm ...

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Hasan Naqvi Hasan Naqvi (حسن نقوى) was a Shia cleric from Lucknow, India who preached Twelver Shi'a Islam and came from a family of scholars known as "Khandaan-e-Ijtehad". He was born in India in 1935. His father was Maulana Syed Muhammad Naqvi, ...

* Syed Kalbe Hussain *

Kalbe Jawad Kalbe Jawad is a Shia Muslim cleric from Lucknow, India. Family background He comes from a family of scholars known as ''"Khandan-e-Ijtehad"'', and traces his lineage from Dildar Ali Naseerabadi (also known as Ghufran Ma'ab), their ancestors ...

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Aga Syed Mohammad Fazlullah Aga Syed Mohammad Fazlullah Al-Moosavi Al-Safavi (26 November 1947 – 29 January 2018) was a Kashmiri Shia Scholar and cleric. He was the son of Aga Syed Yusuf Al-Moosavi Al-Safavi, president of Anjuman Sharie Shiyan (B), a member of the Worl ...

* Sheikh Mussa Shariefi *

Aga Syed Mustafa Moosavi Mustafa Al-Moosavi Al-Safvi (2 February 1918 – 21 August 2002) widely known as Aga Sahab ( ur, آغا صاحب) was a Kashmiri Shia Muslim cleric, Islamic Jurist, Islamic scholar, philanthropist and former President of Anjuman-e-Sharie Shiya ...

* Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi *

Syed Saif Abbas Naqvi Syed Saif Abbas Naqvi (مولانا سيد نقوى) is a Twelver Shia Muslim cleric from India. He is president of the office of Shia Markazi Chand Committee in Lucknow He is one of the prominent Shia clerics of Lucknow. Family background He com ...

* Syed Zafrul Hasan Rizvi * Zeeshan Haider Jawadi

Iran

Abbas Ali Akhtari Sheikh Abbas Ali Akhtari (; 7 December 1939 – 31 October 2022) was an Iranian Ayatollah. He represented the Supreme Leader of Iran in Semnan province, while also serving as the Imam of Friday Prayer in Semnan. He also represented the people ...

Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani (30 March 1937 – 30 October 2011) was an Iranian politician and cleric. He was the only cleric president of University of Tehran, who himself had had no academic education of any kind, that served from 2005 to 2008. Ear ...

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Abbas-Ali Soleimani Abbas-Ali Soleimani (; born 1947) is an Iranian Shia cleric/ayatollah who was born in a religious family in Savadkuh, Mazandaran. He is currently the new appointed representative of Vali-e-Faqih and Imam of Friday prayer in the city of Kashan. T ...

Abbas Amirifar Hojjatoleslam Abbas Amirifar (born 1957) is the prayer leader of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and head of the presidential cultural committee. He was arrested in May 2011 on charges of "sorcery", after he produced a controversial film pred ...

* Abbas Hosseini Kashani *

Abbas Ka'bi Ayatollah Abbas Ka'bi Nasab (Persian: آیت الله عباس کعبی) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric who was born in Ahwaz in 1962 into a religious family. Records mention that he is one of the 12 members of the Guardian Council of the I ...

Abbas Mahfouzi Grand Ayatollah Abbas Mahfouzi ( ar, آيت‌الله العظمى عباس محفوظى; born 1928) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja. He has studied in seminars of Qom, Iran under Ruhollah Khomeini, Grand Ayatollah Houssein Borujerdi and ...

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Mohammad Montazeri Mohammad Montazeri fa, محمد منتظری (1944–28 June 1981) was an Iranian cleric and military figure. He was one of the founding members and early chiefs of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was assassinated in a bombing in Tehr ...

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Seyed Abbas Mousavi Motlagh ''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali, sons of Muhammad' ...

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Abbas Vaez-Tabasi Abbas Vaez Tabasi ( fa, عباس واعظ طبسی; 25 June 1935 – 4 March 2016) was an influential Iranian cleric who held memberships at different institutions. He was Grand Imam and Chairman of the Astan Quds Razavi board from 1979 until his ...

Abdul Fattah Nawab Seyyed Abdul Fattah Nawab ( fa, سید عبدالفتاح نواب) (also: Abdulfattah Nawab) (born: 1957, Shahreza, Isfahan) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who has been recently appointed as the new representative of Guardianship of the Isla ...

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Abdol Hossein Dastgheib Abdol Hossein Dastgheib (8 December 1913 -11 December 1981). He was appointed as Imam of Friday Prayer and one of the representatives of the Supreme Leader in Shiraz. He was a Mujtahidd, expert in Arabic language, theology, revealed texts, and ...

Abdul Hussein Mo'ezzi Abdul Hussein Mo'ezzi (Persian: عبدالحسين معزی; Arabic: المعزی عبدالحسين) (born in 1945) is an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer, and politician. He was born in Tehran, Iran. He was the personal representativ ...

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Abdul Karim Farhani Abdul Karim Farhani (Persian: عبدالکریم فرحانی) is regarded as an Iranian principlist member of Assembly of Experts, who is one of Khuzestan province representatives in the 5th period of that. He was born in Ahwaz in 1964 (1343SH ...

Abdolkarim Hasheminejad Seyyed Abdolkarim Hasheminejad (1932 — 1981)( fa, سید عبدالکریم هاشمی‌نژاد) was an Iranian dissident cleric of the Pahlavi regime who was assassinated after the revolution of 1979. Early life Hasheminejad was born i ...

Abdul Karim Haghshenas Abdul Karim Haghshenas ( fa, عبدالکریم حق‌شناس) (born 1919, Tehran – died on 24 July 2007, Tehran) was a contemporary Muslim jurist and mystic moralist. In Tehran, he taught courses in ethics and religious affairs. Ayatolla ...

Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili Sayyid Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili ( fa, سید عبدالکریم موسوی اردبیلی, 28 January 1926 – 23 November 2016) was an Iranian reformist politician and Twelver shi'a marja. Political career Ardebili was a supporter of Ayato ...

Seyyed Abdollah Fateminia Seyyed Abdollah Fateminia ( fa, سید عبدالله فاطمی‌نیا; 1946 – 16 May 2022) was an Iranian Shiite cleric, professor of Islamic ethics, orator, Islamic historian and bibliographer. He researched Arabic poetry, hadith, ethics ...

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Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abd al-A'la al-Musawi al-Sabziwari ( fa, ; ar, عبد الأعلى الموسوي السبزواري; December 21, 1910 – August 16, 1993) was an Iranian- Iraqi Shia marja'. He is regarded as one of the most influentia ...

Abdollah Javadi-Amoli Abdollah Javadi Amoli ( fa, عبدالله جوادی آملی; born ) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative and principlist Iranian politician, philosopher and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza. The offic ...

Abdullah Musawi Shirazi Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Abdullah Al-Musawi Al-Shirazi (February 25, 1892 – September 29, 1984) was a Grand Ayatollah of Twelver Shi'a Islam. Life Grand Ayatollah Haj Sayyed Abdullah al-Shirazi was born in Shiraz, Iran. At the age of 15 h ...

Abdollah Nouri Abdollah Noori ( fa, عبدالله نوری ) is an Iranian cleric and reformist politician. Despite his "long history of service to the Islamic Republic," he became the most senior Islamic politician to be sentenced to prison since the Iranian ...

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Abdul-Majid al-Khoei Sayyid Abd al-Majid al-Musawi al-Khoei ( ; ; 16 August 1962 – 10 April 2003) was a Shia cleric and the son of grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. Life al-Khoei was born in Najaf. He lived and studied under his father in Najaf until 1991. ...

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Abdul-Nabi Namazi , image = Abdolnabi Namazi.jpg , order = , office = Member of the Assembly of Experts , term_start = 8 October 1990 , term_end = 15 December 2006 , constituency = Bushehr Province , term_start1 = 15 Dec ...

Ayatollah Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami Ayatollah Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami (1925 - 1 January 1987) ( fa, آیت الله عبدالرحمن حیدری ایلامی) was an Iranian-Kurdish Muslim scholar and member of the first term of the Assembly of Experts in Iran. He organised po ...

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Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari , image =Moosavi_Lari_02.jpg , imagesize = , smallimage = , caption = Moosavi Lari in the 13th congress of Democracy Party. , office = Minister of Interior , term_start = 22 ...

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Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi Seyed Abolfazl Rihani, known as Ayatollah Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi ( 1935 – 14 April 2003). He was a member of the Assembly of Experts, was involved with the creation of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran being a member of t ...

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Abulhassan Navab Seyyed Abolhasan Navvab (born 1958 in Shahreza, Isfahan) is an Iranian professor and cleric who currently serves as chancellor of the University of Religions and Denominations. He was one of the candidates for the 2008 parliamentary election, ...

Abolghasem Khazali Ayatollah Abolghasem Khazali Boroujerdi ( fa, ابوالقاسم خزعلی بروجردی, 21 March 1925 – 16 September 2015) was a hardline Iranian politician, fundamentalist Shi'i cleric and a founding member of Haghani school with close ...

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Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei ( ; ar, أبو القاسم الموسوي الخوئي; fa, ; November 19, 1899 – August 8, 1992) was an Iranian- Iraqi Shia marja'. Al-Khoei is considered one of the most influential ...

Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi Ayatollah Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi ( fa, ابوالقاسم وافی یزدی), born in 1935, in Hoseynabad, Yazd, is a Shia cleric and member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also one of the representatives of the city of Yazd in the first an ...

* * Ahmad Alamolhoda * * Ahmad Azari Qomi * Ahmad Beheshti * * * Ahmad Hosseini Khorasani * Ahmad Jannati * Ahmad Khatami *

Ahmad Khomeini Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini ( fa, سید احمد خمینی;‎ 14 March 1946 – 17 March 1995) was the younger son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and father of Hassan Khomeini. He was the "right-hand" of his father before, during and after the Ir ...

Ahmad Khonsari Ahmad Khonsari, also Aḥmad Khvānsārī, or Khvunsārī ( fa, احمد خوانساری, 1887–1985) was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah and attained marja status after the death of marja Boroujerdi in 1961. In contrast to the other maraji of ...

Ahmad Marvi Ahmad Marvi (Persian: احمد مروی) (born: 1958, Mashhad) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric, former general and former police officer who has recently been appointed as the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi (Persian: آستان قدس رضو ...

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Ahmad Moballeghi Ahmad Moballeghi is professor of Qom Seminary at Kharij level, member of Assembly of Experts and the president of the Majlis Islamic Studies Center in Qom. He is one of the international figures of Hawza as well as one of the most eminent theor ...

Ahmad Mohseni Garakani Sheikh Ahmad Mohseni Garakani , (born 1926) is an Iranian Ayatollah. He was the Imam of Friday Prayer in Tuyserkan and the Chief of the Supreme Court of Iran, as well as representing the people of Markazi province in the Assembly of Experts sin ...

Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani Ayatollah Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani (Persian: احمد مجتهدی تهرانی) was an Iranian Twelver Shia ayatollah/scholar who was born on 2 October 1923 in Tehran in a religious family. His father was Mohammad-Baqer, and his grandfather was Mir ...

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Mir Ahmad Reza Hajati Mir Ahmad Reza Hajati (Farsi: میراحمدرضا حاجتی) who is famous as "Ayatollah-Hajati", "Hujjat al-Islam Hajati" or "Hujjatul-Islam wal Muslimin Hajati" is one of Ahwaz temporary Imam Jom'ah ( Imam of Friday). He was born in 1967 in ...

Seyyed Ahmad Reza Shahrokhi Seyyed Ahmad Reza Shahrokhi ( fa, سید احمدرضا شاهرخی) (born 1966, Khorramabad, Lorestan), is the representative of the Supreme Leader of Iran (Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in the province of Lorestan since 2019; and is also the Imam of ...

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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ( fa, اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی, Akbar Hāshemī Rafsanjānī, born Akbar Hashemi Bahramani, 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician, writer, and one of the founding fathers of the Islami ...

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Ali Akbar al-Modarresi Ayatollah Sayyid Ali-Akbar al-Husayni al-Modarresi ( fa, ; ar, علي أكبر الحسيني المدرسي; b. 17 September 1957) is a Shia Iranian- Iraqi scholar and teacher. He is the brother of grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Taqi al-Modar ...

Ali Meshkini Ali Akbar Feiz Aleni ( fa, علی‌اکبر فیض آلنی; 2 December 1921 – 30 July 2007), better known as Ali Meshkini, was an Iranian cleric and politician. Life Meshkini was an Iranian Azerbaijani born in a village near Meshkin Shahr ...

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Ali Akbar Masoudi Khomeini Sheikh Ali Akbar Masoudi Khomeini , (born 1931) is an Iranian ayatollah. He is a member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, as well as serving as the Trustee for Fatima Masumeh Shrine. Early life and education Ali Akbar Masoudi was bo ...

Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur or Mohtashami ( fa, سید علی‌اکبر محتشمی‌پور‎; 30 August 1947 – 7 June 2021) was an Iranian Shia cleric who was active in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and later became interior minister of the I ...

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Ali Akbar Ghoreishi Ayatollah Seyed Ali Akbar Ghoreishi ( fa, علی‌اکبر قریشی, born 1928 in Bonab, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian Shiite cleric, author and politician. He is a member of 1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th and 5th Assembly of Experts from electorate West ...

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Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri ( fa, علی‌اکبر ناطق‌نوری; sometimes spelt Nategh-Nouri, born 6 October 1944) is an Iranian politician, who served as the Chairman of the Parliament of Iran from 1992 to 2000. He was also the Minister of ...

Ali Akbar Rashad Ali Akbar Rashad (born 1955) is an Iranian philosopher and Islamic scholar who pioneered the Ibtina Theory, a theory for explaining the process and mechanism of "religious knowledge" formation. He is currently a professor at the Islamic Researc ...

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Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Asghar Dastgheib ( fa, سید علی‌اصغر دستغیب) (born 1945) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja and member of the Iranian Assembly of Experts. He was among those who advised Ruhollah Khomeini in probat ...

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Ali Asghar Rahimi Azad Grand Ayatollah Ali Asghar Rahimi Azad (Persian: علی اصغر رحیمی آزاد) (born 1939) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He published a personal Resalah. His office is currently in Qom. References External linksپیام آیت ...

* Ali Asghar Rahmani Khalili * Ali Banaei *

Ali Fallahian Ali Fallahian ( fa, علی فلاحیان , born 23 October 1949) is an Iranian politician and cleric. He served as intelligence minister from 1989 to 1997 under the presidency of Ali Akbar Rafsanjani. Early life and education Fallahian was b ...

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Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri (14 May 1923 – 1 January 2010) ( fa, علی گلزاده غفوری) was an Iranian Shia cleric and religious progressive politician. Political career He ran as an independent candidate in the 1979 Iranian Constitutiona ...

Ali al-Sistani Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani ( ar, علي الحسيني السيستاني; fa, , Ali-ye Hoseyni-ye Sistāni; born 4 August 1930), commonly known as Ayatollah Sistani, is an Iranian–Iraqi Twelver Shia Ayatollah and marja'. He has been describ ...

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Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia '' marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third presiden ...

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Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi (Persian: السيد علی‌محمد دستغیب شيرازي ) (born 14 March 1935) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. Biography Ayatollah Dastegheib has studied in seminaries of Qum ...

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Ali Orumian Sheikh Ali Orumian ( fa, شیخ علی ارومیان) is an Iranian Ayatollah born in 1932 in Maragheh. He Served in the Second and Third terms of the Assembly of Experts The Assembly of Experts ( fa, مجلس خبرگان رهبری, maj ...

Ali Qazi Askar Seyyed Ali Qazi Askar ( fa, سید علی قاضی عسکر, born 26 May 1954, Isfahan) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who was appointed as the representative of Iran's supreme leader and the superintendent of Iranian Hujjaj (Hajis) by the ...

Ali Qoddusi Ali Qoddusi (also Ghoddosi or Qodusi) (1927–1981) was an Iranian cleric and a major actor in the 1979 revolution. Qoddusi was born in 1927 in the province of Hamadan. He joined the Qom seminaries in 1944 and studied with, among others, grand ay ...

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Alireza Arafi Alireza Arafi ( fa, علی رضا اعرافی) (born 1956, in Meybod) is an Iranian Shia cleric and he is currently a member of the Guardian Council and also a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was former Chairman of Al-Mustafa Internatio ...

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Alireza Panahian Ali Reza Panahian (also Ali-Reza Panahian; fa, علیرضا پناهیان; born 1965 Tehran) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Scholar and official. He is a Hojatoleslam (a "middle-ranked" Shia cleric) and head of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamen ...

Alireza Qaeminia Alireza Qaeminia is an Iranian philosopher and associate professor of epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philo ...

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Ali Safi Golpaygani Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Ali Safi Golpaygani (Persian: علی صافی گلپایگانی) (1913 – 3 January 2010) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He was born in Golpayegan, Iran. He has studied in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Grand ...

* Seyyed Ali Shafiei *

Ali Shirazi Ali Shirazi is a senior Iranian cleric who is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's representative to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–Quds Force (IRGC-QF). He holds the clerical ranking of Hojatoleslam, which is the rank below Ayatollah. ...

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Ali Younesi Ali Younesi (born 26 August 1955) is an Iranian politician, who served in different positions. Education Younesi is a graduate of the Haqqani school in Qom. Career Following the Islamic Revolution, Younesi became the head of the Islamic Revol ...

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Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani Grand Ayatollah Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani ( fa, اسدالله بیات زنجانی) is an Iranian theologian, Islamic philosopher, writer and Grand marja of Islam. He published his objection to the velayat-e faqih (religious system in Iran) and ...

Assad-Allah Imani Assad-Allah Imani ( fa, اسد‌الله ایمانی), (or Asadullah Imani) (1947 – 7 May 2018) was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, who was a member of assembly of experts, and also the Imam of Prayer in Shiraz. Family and life Assad-Alla ...

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Asgar Dirbaz Hujjat al-IslamAsghar Dirbaz ( fa, عسگر دیرباز, born 1959 in Mianeh, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian Shiite cleric, author and politician. He is a member of 4th and 5th Assembly of Experts from the West Azerbaijan electorate. Dirbaz won ...

* Ataollah Ashrafi Esfahani *

Azizollah Khoshvaght Azizollah Khoshvaqt ( fa, عزیزالله خوشوقت), also known as Ayatollah Khoshvaqt (1926 – 19 February 2013), was a contemporary philosopher, mystic, theologian and faqih. He was a student of Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Seyyed Hoss ...

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Mir Ghesmat Mosavi Asl Mir Ghesmat Mosavi Asl ( fa, ‌‌میرقسمت موسوی‌اصل; born 1961) is an Iranian Shiite cleric and politician. Mosavi was born in Germi, Ardabil Province. He is a member of the 2000 and present Islamic Consultative Assembly from ...

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Gholam Ali Safai Bushehri Gholam Ali Safai Bushehri (Persian: غلامعلی صفایی بوشهری) (born: 1959, Bushehr) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who is the representative of Vali-e-Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) in Bushehr Province, and the Ima ...

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Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i ( fa, غلامحسین محسنی اژه‌ای, Ğolām-Hoseyn Mohseni Eže'i, ; born 29 September 1956) is an Iranian conservative politician, Islamic jurist and prosecutor who currently serves as Chief Justice of I ...

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Gholamreza Rezvani Ayatollah Gholamreza Rezvani (September 24, 1922 – April 19, 2013) was a member of the Council of Guardians in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He believed in literal interpretation of Quran, hadith, and sunnah and has argued that there is "no su ...

* * Habibollah Ashouri * * * Habib Boromand Dashghapu *

Hadi al-Modarresi Ayatollah Sayyid Hadi al-Husayni al-Modarresi ( ar, هادي الحسيني المدرسي; fa, ; b. 1947), is an Iraqi-Iranian Shia scholar, leader and orator. He is viewed as a charismatic speaker, enamoring many Muslims, radiating a certain ...

* * Hadi Khamenei *

Hadi Khosroshahi Seyyed Hadi Khosroshahi ( fa, سید هادی خسروشاهی; – 27 February 2020) was an Iranian cleric and diplomat who served as Iran's first ambassador to the Vatican. Career When he was 15 years old, Khosroshahi joined the leader of mi ...

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Hadi Rohani Sheikh Hadi Rohani (; 3 March 1924 – 13 October 1999) was an Iranian ayatollah. He represented the Supreme Leader of Iran for Mazandaran Province, as well as being the Friday Prayer Leader for Mazandaran. He also represented the people in Ma ...

Hamid Rasai Hamid Rasaee ( fa, حمید رسایی; born 23 July 1967) is an Iranian Shia cleric and principlist politician and former member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. He publishes the '' Noh Dey Weekly'' (means: Ninth Dey Dey (Arabic: دا� ...

Hamid Shahriari Hamid Shahriari (Persian: حمید شهریاری) (born: 1963, Tehran); complete name: "Hamid Hawali Shahriari" (Persian: حمید حوالی شهریاری) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who has recently been appointed as the general sec ...

Mirza Hashem Amoli Ayatollah Mirza Hashem Amoli Larijani ( fa, لاریجانی میرزا هاشم آملی; 26 February 189925 February 1993) was an Iranian Shia Marja' and scholar of jurisprudence. Biography Hashem Amoli Larijani was born on 26 February 189 ...

* Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani * * Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi * Hashem Hosseini Bushehri * * * *

Hasanali Morvarid Ayatollah Sheikh Hasanali Morvarid ( fa, ; 1911–October 5, 2004) was a senior Iranian Shia scholar and teacher.He was a widely respected teacher at the Islamic seminary of Mashhad, and a well-known ''tafkiki'' figure of the second generation ...

Hasan Ali Nejabat Shirazi Ayatollah Hajj Sheykh Hasan Ali Nejabat Shirazi (1917-1989) was an Iranian mystic, author of several published theological works, and political activist. Early life and education He was born in 1917 at Shiraz, Iran. He passed preliminary and adv ...

Hassan Ameli Ayatollah Seyed Hassan Ameli Kalkhoran ( fa, سید حسن عاملی, born 1962 in Ardabil) is an Iranian Shiite cleric, author and politician. He is a member of 4th and 5th Assembly of Experts The Assembly of Experts ( fa, مجلس خبرگ ...

Hassan Emami Sayyid Hassan Emami ( fa, سید حسن امامی) was an Iranian Shia cleric and royalist politician. He worked as a judge in the Ministry of Justice and taught law at University of Tehran. He was regarded as a member of the Mohammad Reza Shah ...

Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli Hassan Hasanzadeh Amoli ( fa, حسن حسن‌زاده آملی, 12 February 1929 – 25 September 2021) was an Iranian Shi'ite theologian known for his mystical tendencies and Islamic philosophy. He was among clerics who overcomed the tradition ...

Hassan Eslami Ardakani Seyyed Hassan Eslami Ardakani (born December 23, 1960) is an Iranian philosopher and professor of ethics at the University of Religions and Denominations. He is known for his expertise on virtue ethics, environmental ethics and research ethics. E ...

Hassan Khomeini Sayyid Hassan Khomeini ( fa, سيد حسن خمينی; born 23 July 1972) is an Iranian cleric. He has been called "the most prominent" grandchild of Ruhollah Khomeini, who had 15 grandchildren in total, and the one "who many think could have a p ...

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Hassan Namazi Hassan Namazi ( fa, حسن نمازی, born in Qum from Azeri parents) is an Iranian Shiite cleric and politician. He is a member of the 4th Assembly of Experts from the West Azerbaijan electorate. Namazi won his membership with 360,952 votes. ...

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Hassan Rouhani Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...

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Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi ( ar, حسن الطباطبايي القمي; fa, ; 1912–2007) was a prominent Shia marja' who was born in Najaf. He was known as Seyyed Hassan Qomi. Seyyed Hassan was inhabitant in Mashhad, and was ...

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Heydar Moslehi Heydar Moslehi (born 1957 in Isfahan) is an Iranian cleric and politician who served as the minister of intelligence from 2009 to 2013. Early life and education Moslehi was born in Shahreza in the Isfahan province, Iran, in 1957. He was a stud ...

Hussein-Ali Montazeri Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri ( fa, حسینعلی منتظری‎ ; 24 September 1922 – 19 December 2009) was an Iranian Shia Islamic theologian, Islamic democracy advocate, writer and human rights activist. He was one of the lea ...

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Hossein Ansarian Hossein Ansarian ( fa, حسین انصاریان; born 9 November 1944) is an Iranian Shia cleric. Early life Hossein Ansarian was born on 9 November 1944 in Khvansar, Isfahan, Iran. His father, Muhammad Bagher, was from ''Haj Sheikh'' dynas ...

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Hossein Ayatollahi Seyyed Hossein Ayatollahi (Persian:سید حسین آیت‌اللهی) (August 1931 – 14 January 2001) was a Shiite clergyman, Ruhollah Khomeini Representative and Imam of Friday prayer of Jahrom Jahrom ( fa, جهرم, also known as Jahrūm) ...

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Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi (also Hosein Kazemaini Boroujerdi) (born August 1, 1958) is a former Iranian Twelver Shi'i Muslim Ayatollah and cleric who advocates the separation of religion and government and has been arrested and jailed several ...

Hossein Lankarani Hossein Lankarani ( fa, حسین لنکرانی) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who served as a member of parliament in the 14th Iranian Majlis. Prynce Hopkins describes Lankarani as "liberal". According to Sepehr Zabih, during 194 ...

Hossein Mazaheri Grand Ayatollah Hossein Mazaheri Isfahani ( ar, حسين المظاهري الأصفهاني) (born November 16 1933) is a senior Iranian Twelver Shia Marja. He was also a member of the Third Assembly of Experts. Biography Grand Ayatollah H ...

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Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi Sayyid Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi ( fa, سید حسین موسوی تبریزی, was born 1947 in Tabriz) is an Iranian Shiite mujtahid, writer, researcher, judge and politician. He is professor the high-level of Qom Hawza. The most important politi ...

* Hossein Noori Hamedani * * * Hossein Taeb * Hossein Wahid Khorasani * Ebrahim Amini *

Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami Mir-Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami ( fa, میرابراهیم سیدحاتمی;) born in Ardabil, (1924 – 6 January 2019) was one of the high rank Ayatullah of Ardabil province, and a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was a member of 3rd and 4th Ass ...

Ebrahim Raisi Sayyid Ebrahim Raisolsadati ( fa, سید ابراهیم رئیس‌الساداتی; born 14 December 1960), commonly known as Ebrahim Raisi ( fa, ابراهیم رئیسی ), is an Iranian principlist politician, Muslim jurist, and the eight ...

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Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani Ayatollah Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani ( fa, سیداسماعیل موسوی زنجانی, was born 1928 — died 2002) was an Iranian Shiite cleric and politician. He was a member of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Assembly of Experts from the Zanjan Pro ...

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Jafar Sobhani Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani ( fa, جعفر سبحانی) (born 9 April 1929 in Tabriz) is an Iranian Twelver Shia marja, influential theologian and writer. Sobhani was a former member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom and founder of I ...

Jafar Shojouni Jafar Shojouni ( fa, جعفر شجونی) was an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician who served a member of the Parliament of Iran from 1980 to 1984, representing Karaj. He was a member of Islamic Coalition Party’s Central Council, ...

Jalaleddin Taheri Seyyed Jalaleddin Taheri Esfahani ( fa, سید جلال‌الدین طاهری اصفهانی, sometimes spelled Jalaluddin Taheri or Jalaleddin Taheri, 1 January 1926 – 2 June 2013) was an Iranian scholar, theologian and Islamic philosopher. ...

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Javad Gharavi Aliari Grand Ayatollah Mirza Javad Gharavi Aliari Tabrizi ( ar, آيت الله العظمى میرزا جواد غروى علياري تبريزى ) (1935-2018) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He was born in Tabriz, Iran. He migrated to Najaf t ...

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Javad Khamenei Sayyid Javad Khamenei ( fa, سید جواد خامنه‌ای; 7 December 1895 – 5 July 1986) was an Iranian Shia. He was the father of Iran's current supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Early life He was an ethnic Iranian Azeri from the city of K ...

Jawad Tabrizi Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Mirza Jawad Kubar Tabrizi ( fa, ; 1926 – November 20, 2006) was an Iranian Shia marja'. Tabrizi was another prominent student of the late grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, and one of the leading religious au ...

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Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini Sayyid, Seyed Ayatollah Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini (1924 – 2 November 2012) ( fa, سید کرامت‌الله ملک‌حسینی) was an Iranian Ayatollah and member of the List of members in the Second Term of the Council of Experts, Second ...

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Kazem Nourmofidi Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi ( fa, سید کاظم نورمفیدی, born 1940) is a Supreme Leader's representative in Golestan Province, the leader of congregational Friday prayers of Gorgan, and a member of the Assembly of Experts in Iran. He is ...

* Kazem Seddiqi * Seyed Kazem Seyed Bagheri *

Lotfollah Dezhkam Lotfollah Dezhkam (Persian: ) is the Representative of the Supreme Leader in Fars province, Imam of Friday Prayer of Shiraz and the Representative of Fars in Assembly of Experts The Assembly of Experts ( fa, مجلس خبرگان رهبر� ...

Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani ( fa, لطف‌الله صافی گلپایگانی; 20 February 1919 – 1 February 2022) was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He was at one point the most senior Twelver Shia scholar (Marja') in Iran until his death. He res ...

Mahmoud Taleghani Sayyid Mahmoud Alaee Taleghani ( fa, محمود طالقانی, , also Romanized as Seyed Mahmūd Tāleqānī; 5 March 1911 – 9 September 1979) was an Iranian theologian, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shi'a Islamic Scholar ...

Mahmoud Alavi Al-Zobb Mahmoud Alavi ( fa, محمود علوی; born 4 May 1954) is an Iranian conservative politician, and formerly minister of intelligence in Hassan Rouhani's government. Early life Alavi was born in Lamerd, Fars province, in 1954. He ho ...

* * Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi * * *

Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi or Seyyed Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi (born 1941) is an Iranian librarian, Bibliographer and manuscript expert. He is the director of Mar'ashi Najafi Library, which he says is one of the largest libraries in Iran and the wor ...

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Mahmoud Nabavian Sayyid Mahmoud Nabavian ( fa, سید محمود نبویان) is an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician who formerly was a member of the Parliament of Iran representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. See also * Morteza Agh ...

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Mahdi al-Modarresi Muhammad-Mahdi al-Modarresi ( ar, محمد مهدي المدرسي; 1977 – present) is a Kuwaiti Twelver Shia scholar of Islam born in Kuwait. He comes from a distinguished family of scholars which includes supreme religious jurists, such as G ...

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Mahdi Hosseini Rohani Seyed Mahdi Hosseini Rohani (15 July 1925 - 23 November 2000) was an Iranian Ayatollah born in Qom. He served in the First, Second, and Third terms of the Assembly of Experts. Family Background Mahdi Rohani was born into a very religious f ...

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Seyed Mehdi Ghoreishi Hujjat al-Islam Seyed Mehdi Ghoreishi ( fa, سید مهدی قریشی, is an Iranian Shiite cleric, Representative of the Supreme Leader in West Azerbaijan and Imam Jumu'ah prayer of Urmia. He is son of the Ali Akbar Ghoreishi member of Asse ...

Mehdi Shabzendedar Jahromi Mehdi Shabzendedar Jahromi ( fa, مهدی شب‌زنده‌دار جهرمی) is an Iranian Shia jurist and member of the Guardian Council." Early life He is the son of the late Ayatollah Haj Sheikh Hussein Shabzendehdar Jahromi, a student of ...

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Masoud Khamenei Seyyed Masoud Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید مسعود حسینی خامنه‌ای), also known as "Seyyed Mohsen Khamenei" (Persian: سید محسن خامنه‌ای), is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who is the third son of Iran’s su ...

* * Mohammad-Ali Abtahi *

Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem Seyyed Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem (Persian: سید محمدعلی آل‌هاشم), also known as "Ayatollah Ale-Hashem" (born: 1962, in Tabriz), is the representative of Vali-e-Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) in the province of East Aze ...

Mohammad-Ali Angaji Mohammad-Ali Angaji ( fa, محمدعلی انگجی) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician. A loyal National Front member, he served as a member of parliament during the 17th term and ran for the 1954 election in Tehran. He was elected to ...

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Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi (Persian: محمدعلى گرامى قمي; born 1938) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja', Marja. He has studied in seminaries of Qum, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Al ...

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Mohammad Alavi Gorgani Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Ali Hosseini Alavi Gorgani ( fa, سيد محمد على حسينى علوى گرگانى; March 1940 – 15 March 2022) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a marja. He was born in a religious family in Najaf, Iraq. He ...

* Mohammad Ali Esmaeelpoor Ghomsheie * * * * Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri * *

Ali Movahedi-Kermani Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi-Kermani ( fa, محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی) is Tehran's Friday Prayer Ephemeral Imam and the former secretary-general of Combatant Clergy Association. He is also a member of the Assembly of Experts. He ...

Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei Seyid Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei ( fa, سید محمدعلی قاضی طباطبایی; 1914 – 1979) was an Iranian politician, Shiite cleric, first imam Jumu'ah for Tabriz and Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan. He ...

* Mohammad-Ali Rahmani * * * Mohammad-Ali Shahidi * *

Mohammad Ali Shomali Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Ali Shomali ( fa, ; born 22 December 1965) is a Muslim scholar, academic, philosopher and theologian. His religious rank is Hujjat al-Islam. Early life and education Shomali was born 1965 in Tehran, Iran. He studied in th ...

Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri (19 October 1944 – 18 August 2020) was an Iranian cleric and diplomat. During the 1980s, Taskhiri served as the Iranian representative to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and was involved in promoting Iranian int ...

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Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri Kani ( fa, محمدباقر باقری کنی) born in 1926, is an Iranian Shia Mujtahid. He was one of 82-86 Mujtahids to be elected in the First, Second, and Fourth terms in the Assembly of Experts. Life and Education ...

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Mohammad Bagher Kharazi Mohammad Bagher Kharazi (born 26 June 1961) is an Iranian cleric and a candidate for the presidential elections held in June 2013. His nomination was rejected by Guardian Council. Early life and education Kharrazi was born on 26 June 1961. He ...

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Mohammed Emami-Kashani Mohammad Emami-Kashani ( fa, محمد امامی کاشانی) is a member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He has been the Interim Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran. He is also the head of Shahid Motahari University ...

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Mohammad Fazel Lankarani Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Fazel Lankarani (1931 – June 16, 2007) was an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja'. He was student of Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi. He was a child of a Persian mother and an Azerbaijani father. Biography and clerical activities L ...

Mohammad Feyz Sarabi Ayatollah Mohammad Feyz Sarabi ( fa, محمد فیض سرابی; 23 August 1928 – 11 April 2022) was an Iranian Shiite cleric and politician. He was a member of the 4th and 5thAssembly of Experts from the East Azerbaijan electorate. Feyzi won ...

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Mohammad Hadi Ghazanfari Khansari Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Hadi Ghazanfari Khansari (Persian: السيد محمد هادي غضنفري خوانساري) (born 1957) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja'. He has studied in seminaries of Qom, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Mohammad-R ...

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Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard Hojatoleslam Seyyed Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard ( fa, محمدحسن ابوترابی‌فرد; born January 30, 1953) is an Iranian conservative politician and the former first deputy speaker of the Parliament of Iran The Islamic Consult ...

Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih Ayatollah Mirza Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faghih (Persian: ميرزا محمد حسن احمدى فقيه) (born 1951 - died August 28, 2010 ) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He studied in seminaries of Qum, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Mohamma ...

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Mohammad Hassan Ghadrdan Gharamaleki Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Hassan Ghadrdan Gharamaleki (born 1965) is an Iran, Iranian philosopher and professor of Kalam at the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought. His books titled ''God and the Problem of Evil'' and ''Koran and Plura ...

Mohammad Hassan Rahimian Mohammad Hassan Rahimian ( fa, محمد حسن رحیمیان) (born: in 1948, Isfahan) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric, who has been appointed as the trusteeship of Jamkaran Mosque since 2013 till now --by the decree of supreme leader of Ir ...

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Mohammad Beheshti Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti ( fa, سیّد محمد حسینی بهشتی; 24 October 1928 – 28 June 1981) was an Iranian jurist, philosopher, cleric and politician who was known as the second person in the political hierarchy of Iran after t ...

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* * Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Zanjani * Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai * * * Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati * *

Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani ( fa, سید محمد عزالدین حسيني زنجانی) (1 November 1921 – 14 May 2013) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja'. He studied in seminaries of Qom, Iran under Grand Ayato ...

* * Mohammad Jafar Montazeri * Muhammad Jafar Moravej * Muhammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari *

Mohammad-Javad Bahonar Mohammad-Javad Bahonar ( fa, محمدجواد باهنر, 5 September 1933 – 30 August 1981) was a Shia Iranian theologian and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Iran for less than one month in August 1981. Bahonar and other member ...

Mohammad Javad Pishvai Seyyed Mohammad Javad Pishvai (Persian:سید_محمد_جواد_پیشوایی ; Bandar-e Anzali, b. 1944) is the religious leader of Bandar-e Anzali, appointed by a handwritten verdict of Ayatollah Khomeini 5 days after the establishment of the ...

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Mohammed Kadhim al-Modarresi Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Kadhim al-Husayni al-Modarresi (; ; 1911–April 5, 1994) was an Iranian- Iraqi Shia scholar and mystic. He was a prominent teacher at the seminaries of Mashhad and Karbala, teaching Islamic philosophy. He held the Qura ...

Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari ( fa, محمد کاظم شریعتمداری), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1906 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away ...

Mohammad Khamenei Sayyid Mohammad Khamenei ( fa, سید محمد خامنه‌ای, born 25 December 1935) is an Iranian cleric and politician. He is the older brother of Ali Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of Iran, and Hadi Khamenei. Currently, he is the pre ...

Mohammad Khatami Sayyid Mohammad Khatami ( fa, سید محمد خاتمی, ; born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 ...

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Mohammad Mofatteh Ayatollah Mohammad Mofatteh ( fa, محمد مفتح‎; 1928–1979) was an Iranian philosopher, theologian, and political activist, born in Famenin, Hamadan, Iran. After he finished his primary education in Hamadan, he left for the Islamic Semi ...

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Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani ( fa, محمد محمدی گیلانی) (31 August 1928 – 9 July 2014) was a member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was the chief justice of the supreme court of Iran, a posi ...

Mohammad Momen Ayatollah Mohammad Momen (13 January 1938 – 21 February 2019) was a Faqih (a cleric qualified to judge based on Islamic law) and a very influential member of the Guardian Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Influence in government He simu ...

Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha Sayyid Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha (born 1945) is an Iranian cleric and secretary general of the reformist Association of Combatant Clerics. He was the founder of the now defunct '' Salam'' and was a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. ...

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Nasser Biria Mohammad Nasser Saghaye-Biria ( fa, محمدناصر سقای بی‌ریا) is an Iranian Shi'a cleric, conservative politician and head of psychology department at Imam Khomeini Educational Research Institute. He is a senior member of Front of Is ...

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Mohammad Reyshahri Mohammad Reyshahri ( fa, محمد ری‌‌شهری), also known as Mohammad Mohammadi-Nik (29 October 1946 – 21 March 2022), was an Iranian politician and cleric who was the first Minister of Intelligence, serving from 1984 to 1989 in the c ...

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Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani Araghi Mohammad Reza Ashtiani Araghi ( fa, رضا آشتیانی عراقی) is an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician who represented Qom in the Iranian Parliament from 2004 to 2016. He is among the authors of ''Tafsir Nemooneh Tafs ...

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Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani ( fa, محمدرضا مهدوی کنی, 6 August 1931 – 21 October 2014) was an Iranian Shia cleric, writer and conservative and principlist politician who was Acting Prime Minister of Iran from 2 Septemb ...

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Mohammad Reza Mirtajodini Sayyid Mohammad-Reza Mirtajodini ( fa, سید محمدرضا میرتاج‌الدینی, born on 30 December 1960) is an Iranian cleric and conservative politician. He was Vice President for parliamentary affairs from 2009 to 2013 and a member ...

Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Modarresi-Yazdi (born 1955 in Yazd) is one of the 12 members of the Guardian Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran and also a member of the Assembly of Experts. See also * List of Ayatollahs References

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Mohammad Reza Naseri Yazdi Mohammad Reza Naseri-Yazdi ( fa, محمدرضا ناصری) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who is the representative of Yazd province and the Imam of Friday in the city of Yazd, who was appointed at the mentioned positions by the decree o ...

Mohammad Reza Nekoonam Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Nekoonam (Persian: آیت الله محمد رضا نکونام) Iranian Twelver Shi'a Clergy. Life Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Nekoonam (Persian: آیت الله محمد رضا نکونام) Iranian Twelver Shi'a C ...

Mohammed Ridha al-Sistani Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Ridha al-Husayni al-Sistani ( ar, محمد رضا الحسيني السيستاني; fa, محمدرضا حسينى سيستانى, translit=Mohammadreza Hoseyni Sistāni, born 18 August 1962), is an Iraqi-Iranian Shia sc ...

Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Tavassoli ( fa, محمدرضا توسلی) (1931–2008) was an influential Iranian theologian, reformist politician, and a close associate of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.Tavassoli was a member of the Expediency Discernm ...

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Mohammad-Sadegh Salehimanesh Mohammad-Sadegh Salehimanesh ( fa, محمدصادق صالحی‌منش) is an Iranian cleric and politician. He was founder and commander of the Vali Amr Corps, responsible for the security of the Supreme Leader of Iran, from 1986 to 1993 and s ...

Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani (Persian: محمد صادقی تهراني) (born 1926 - died March 21, 2011) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He has studied in seminaries of Qum, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Muha ...

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Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi (Persian: سید محمد سعیدی; born 1951, Qom) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric, who is the trustee of the Fatima Masumeh Shrine, and Qom Imam of Friday Prayer. He is also the representative of Guardianship of th ...

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Mohammad Shahcheraghi Seyed Mohammad Shahcheraghi , (born 10 June 1934) is an Iranian Ayatollah. He represented the Supreme Leader of Iran in Semnan province, as well being the Imam of Friday Prayer in Semnan. He was elected by the people of Semnan province to re ...

Mohammad-Taher Shubayr al-Khaqani Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Taher bin Abdul-hameed bin Isa bin Hasan bin Shubayr bin Thiab bin Mohammed bin Harb al-Khaqani (30 November 1911 - 28 January 1986) ( Arabic:اية الله العظمى الشيخ محمد طاهر بن عبدالحم� ...

Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Taqi al-Husayni al-Modarresi ( ar, محمد تقي الحسيني المدرسي; fa, ; b. 1945) is an Iraqi-Iranian Shia marja' and political theorist. al-Modarresi is the author of over 400 books on matte ...

Mohammad Taqi al-Khoei Sayyid Mohammed Taqi al-Khoei was a brother of Abdul Majid al-Khoei and son of Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sayyid Abul Qasim al-Khoei. Death According to the UN Special Rapporteur for Iraq: Following two years of relentless intimidation and harassment ...

Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani Grand Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani ( fa, محمدتقی بهجت فومنی) (24 August 1916 – 17 May 2009) was an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja'. Biography Mohammad-Taqi was born on 24 August 1916 in the Fouman, Gilan province in ...

Mohammad Taghi Falsafi Mohammad Taghi Falsafi ( fa, محمدتقی فلسفی) was an Iranian Ayatollah and preacher. He was a campaigner against the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Many of his lectures was about psychology, ethics and mental development. During ...

Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari , location = , Title = Allameh , Period = , Predecessor = , Successor = , ordination = , post = , birth_date = , birth_place = Tabriz, Iran (formerly Varzeqan) , death_date = , death_place ...

Mohammad-Taghi Khalaji Mohammad-Taghi Khalaji (born March 31, 1948) is an Iranian Shia cleric. He has been described as "a prominent Qom cleric close to reformist clerics Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri and Ayatollah Yousef Sane'i." He was arrested on January 13, 2010, ...

Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi Ayatollah Taqi Mesbah ( fa, تقی مصباح‌; born Taqi Givechi, fa, تقی گیوه‌چی), commonly known as Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi ( fa, محمدتقی مصباح‌ یزدی, 31 January 1935 – 1 January 2021) was an Iranian Shi' ...

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Mohammed Taqi Morvarid Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad-Taqi Morvarid ( fa, ; 1921 – 22 October 2012) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian Shia Islam, Shia Ulama, cleric and politician. He was a member of the first Assembly of Experts representing the Ilam Province electorate. M ...

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Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi ( fa, محمدتقی پورمحمدی, was born 1956 in Marand, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian Shiite Muslim cleric and politician. He is a member of the 4th and 5th Assembly of Experts from electorate East A ...

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Mohammad-Taqi Shoushtari Mohammad-Taqi Shoushtari ( fa, محمد تقی شوشتری), known as "Sheikh-e-Shoushtari" was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, who was born in 1903 in the city of Najaf, Iraq. Shoushtari's father (Mohammad Kazem Shushtari) is originally from Sh ...

Mohammad Taghi Vaezi Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Vaezi ( fa, محمد تقی واعظی, born 1951 in Tehran) is an Iranian Shia cleric, author and politician. He is a member of the 4th Assembly of Experts from the Zanjan Province electorate. Vaezi won membership wit ...

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Mohammad Vaez Mousavi Hujjat al-Islam Seyyed Mohammad Vaez Mousavi ( fa, سید محمد واعظ موسوی, was born 1964 in Shabestar, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian Shiite cleric and politician. He is a member of the 4th Assembly of Experts from electorate Ea ...

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Mohammad Yazdi Mohammad Yazdi ( fa, محمد یزدی, 2 July 1931 – 9 December 2020) was an Iranian conservative and principlist cleric who served as the head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999. In 2015, he was elected to lead Iran's Assembl ...

Seyyed Mohammad Ziaabadi Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Ziaabadi (1928 - 8 February 2021) (Persian: سید محمد ضیاءآبادی) was an Iranian Mujtahid that was based in the Tehran Islamic Seminary. He specialised in Islamic ethics and interpretation of the Quran. ...

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Mohsen Araki Mohsen Araki ( fa, محسن اراکی; ar, محسن الأراكي) is an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer and politician. He is currently a member of the Assembly of Experts and also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. ...

Mohsen Faqihi Mohsen Faqihi (Persian: محسن فقیهی) (born 1952) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Ayatollah. He has studied in seminaries of Qum, Iran under Morteza Haeri Yazdi, Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani and Mohammad Ali Araki. Faqihi is known for his book '' ...

Mohsen Heidari Alekasir Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari AleKasir ( Persian:محسن حیدری آل کثیر) is an Iranian Shia Islamic cleric who was born in 1957 in a middle class rural family in the village of Hor Riyahi Abadi where is located near to Shush in Khuzestan p ...

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Mohsen Kharazi Seyyed Mohsen Kharazi ( fa, سید محسن خرازی) (born in 1937 in Tehran) is a member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was a candidate for the 4th Assembly of Experts. See also * List of Ayatollahs This is ...

Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi Grand Ayatollah Mirza Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi (9 January 1924 – 3 August 2011) was an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja. Early life Tabrizi was born on 9 January 1924 in Tabriz, Iran. His father, Ayatollah Mirza Abbas Kochebaghi, was also a Gran ...

Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari Ayatollah Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari ( fa, محسن مجتهد شبستری; 1937 – 17 November 2021) was an Iranian Shiite cleric and politician. He was a member of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Assembly of Experts from the East Azerbaijan ...

Mohsin Qara'ati Mohsen Qara'ati ( fa, محسن قرائتی) is an Iranian Shia cleric who was born in 1945 in the city of Kashan, and his father was Ali Naqi (Qara'ati). Mohsen Qara'ati who is commonly known as "Ayatollah Qara'ati" or " Hujjat al-islam Qara'ati, ...

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Mohsen Rohami Mohsen Rohami ( fa, محسن رهامی, also spelt Rahami) is an Iranian lawyer, Shia cleric and reformist politician. He is an associate professor at University of Tehran's department of criminal crime. He enrolled as a candidate in the 2017 Ir ...

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Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini ( fa, سید مجتبی حسینی) (Born 1954 in Mashhad) ( fa, مشهد) a member of the Assembly of Experts (third and fifth period ) and the supreme leader's representative in Iraq and Syria. Biography Seyed Mojta ...

Mujtaba Musavi Lari Mojtaba Musavi Lari (1925 – 9 March 2013) was a Shi'a Twelver Islamic scholar. Biography Lari was born in Lar, Iran, to the late Ayatulla Sayyid Ali Asghar Lari. After completing his preliminary studies in Lar in 1953 he continued his Islami ...

Mojtaba Tehrani Grand Ayatollah Agha Mojtaba Tehrani (Persian: مجتبي تهراني) (4 April 1933 – 1 January 2013) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja' taqlid, which is described as "a high-ranking Shia cleric who is regarded as a source of emulation" ...

Mojtaba Zonnour Mojtaba Zonnour ( fa, مجتبی ذوالنور; also spelled Zolnour) is an Iranian Shi'a cleric and conservative politician who, , represents Qom in the Iranian Parliament. He declared that he was SARS-CoV-2-positive on 27 February 2020. Polit ...

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Morteza Aghatehrani Morteza Aghatehrani ( fa, مرتضی آقاتهرانی) is an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician. He was former secretary-general of the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability, and represented Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr i ...

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Morteza Motahhari Morteza Motahhari ( fa, مرتضی مطهری, also Romanized as "Mortezā Motahharī"; 31 January 1919 – 1 May 1979) was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, lecturer. Motahhari is considered to have an important influence on ...

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Mostafa Khomeini Mostafa Khomeini ( fa, مصطفی خمینی ; 12 December 1930 – 23 October 1977) was an Iranian cleric and the eldest son of Ayatollah Khomeini. He died before the Iranian Revolution. Early life and education Khomeini was born in Qom on ...

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Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad , location = , Title = Allameh , Period = , Predecessor = , Successor = , ordination = , post = , birth_date = , birth_place = Qom, Iran , dea ...

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Mostafa Pourmohammadi Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi ( fa, مصطفی پورمحمدی; born 9 March 1960, Qom) is an Iranian politician and prosecutor, who has served at different positions and cabinet posts. He was minister of interior from 2005 to 2008 and minister of just ...

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Nasir Hosseini Seyyed Nasir Hosseini (Persian: سید نصیر حسینی) (born: 1967, Yasuj) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who is the representative of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province and likewise the Imam of Fri ...

Nasrollah Pejmanfar Nasrollah Pejmanfar ( fa, نصرالله پژمان‌فر) is an Iranian Shi'a cleric and conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, pra ...

Nasrallah Shah-Abadi Sheikh Nasrallah Shah-Abadi , (24 September 1930 – 12 March 2018) was an Iranian Ayatollah. He represented the people of Tehran Province in the Fifth term of the Assembly of Experts. Early life and education Nasrallah was born on 24 Septemb ...

Naser Makarem Shirazi Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi (, born 25 February 1927 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian Shia '' marja and religious leader. Biography He was born in the city of Shiraz, Iran. According to his website, his father was Ali Mohammad, his g ...

Seyed Naser Mousavi Largani Seyed Naser Mousavi Largani is Falavarjan's representative in Islamic Consultative Assembly The Islamic Consultative Assembly ( fa, مجلس شورای اسلامی, Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iran ...

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Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi Ayatollah Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi (1923/24 in Najafabad, Isfahan province – 2006 in Tehran) was an Iranian cleric, scholar and proponent of Islamic Unity, who spent most years after the Iranian revolution of 1979 under house arrest. T ...

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Qasem Ravanbakhsh Qasem Ravanbakhsh ( fa, قاسم روانبخش) is an Iranian Shia cleric, conservative politician and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of ''Partow-e Sokhan'' and a leading member of Front of Islamic Revolution Stability Front of Islamic Revo ...

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Ghodratollah Alikhani Ghodratollah Alikhani () is an Iranian Shi'a cleric and reformist politician who formerly represented Qazvin Province constituencies in the Parliament of Iran. References

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Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi ( fa, قربانعلی دری نجف‌آبادی; born 3 December 1950) is an Iranian politician and cleric. He is currently a member of the Assembly of Experts and also a member of the Expediency Discernment Counc ...

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Rasul Jafarian Rasul Jafarian ( fa, رسول جعفریان; born June 30, 1964) is an Iranian clergyman and researcher in field of Iranian history. He is currently the Professor of the Department of History at the University of Tehran, the Director of The sp ...

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Reza Mohammadi Langroudi Reza Mohammadi Langroudi ( fa, رضا محمدی لنگرودی; 3 August 1928 – 5 March 2020) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric of the rank of Ayatollah. He served as representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the town of ...

Reza Nouri Reza Nouri ( fa, رضا نوری; born 1973, in Bojnourd) is the newly appointed representative of Vali-e-Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) in North-Khorasan Province and is also the Friday prayer leader ( Imam-Jom'eh) of Bojnourd. Th ...

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Ruhollah Khatami :''(Not to be confused with Ruhollah Khomeini who was the leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution)'' Ruhollah Khatami (28 October 1906 – 27 October 1988) was a senior Iranian cleric in the city of Yazd. In July 1982, he was appointed as prayer l ...

Ruhollah Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...

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Sadeq Larijani Sadeq Ardeshir Larijani ( fa, صادق اردشیر لاریجانی; born 12 March 1961), better known as Amoli Larijani ( fa, آملی لاریجانی), is an Iranian scholar, conservative politician, and current chairman of Expediency Discern ...

Saied Reza Ameli Saied Reza Ameli (In Persian سعیدرضا عاملی, born 1961 in Karaj, Iran) is a (full) professor of communication at the University of Tehran. He is currently a member of Department of Communications and the director of the UNESCO Chair on ...

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Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi Shahab ad-Din Muhammad Hussain Mar'ashi Najafi (July 21, 1897 – August 29, 1990) ( ar, اية الله العظمى السيد شهابالدين الحسينى المرعشى نجفى) was an Iraqi Shia ''Grand Ayatollah'' and Marja'. Educat ...

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Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi ( ar, تقي الطباطبايي القمي fa, , February 21, 1923–October 26, 2016) was an Iranian Shia marja'. He, along with Ali al-Sistani, and Ali Falsafi, were among the only three people t ...

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Yadollah Duzduzani This article provides the list of marjas, ''Maraji'' (plural of ''Marja'', the supreme legal authority or the source of emulation), followed by Twelver (also known as ''Imamiyyah'') Shia Muslims around the world. The concept of a ''Marja-i Taqlid'' ...

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Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari Grand Ayatollah Yasubeddin Rastegar Jooybari (Persian: يعسوب الدين رستگار جويباري) (born 1940) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja'. He has studied in seminaries of Qom, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatma ...

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Yousef Saanei Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei ( fa, يوسف صانعى; 16 October 1937 – 12 September 2020) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja' and politician, a member of the Islamic Republic of Iran's powerful Guardian Council from 1980 to 1983 and ...

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Zaynolabideen Ghorbani Sheikh Zaynolabideen Ghorbani , (born 1933) is an Iranian Ayatollah. He represented the Supreme Leader of Iran for Gilan Province, as well as leading prayers in Lahijan and Rasht. He represented the people in Gilan for both the Assembly of Ex ...

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Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Ayatollah Abdul Aziz al-Hakim ( ; ar, سید عبد العزيز الحكيم; 1952 – 26 August 2009) was an Iraqi theologian and politician and the leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a party that has approximately 5% support in the ...

Abd al-Hadi al-Fadli Abd al-Hadi al-Fadli (December 6, 1935 – April 8, 2013) was an Islamic author and thinker. Life Born near Basra, Iraq, he had a seminary education and also received a doctorate from the University of Cairo. He was a student of Ayatollah Baqir a ...

Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi al-Salami ( ar, عبد المهدي السلامي; born 1955), commonly known as Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalai, is a Shia Muslim scholar, best known for being the official representative of Grand Ayatollah Sayed Ali Al-Sistani in Iraq ...

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Akram al-Kaabi Akram al-Kaabi ( ar, أكرم الكعبي; born 17 July 1977) is the founder and secretary general of Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba in Iraq. Nujaba emerged in 2013 as an offshoot of the Iraqi Shiite militia group Asaib Ahl al-Haq. History Kaabi ...

Al-Sayyed Riyadh Al-Hakeem Samahat Ayatollah Al-Sayyed Riyadh Al-Hakeem. Biography is the son Alsayyed Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of I ...

Ali al-Hakim Sayyid Ali al-Hakim (born 1964) is a high-ranking Shiite Ayatollah in Najaf, Iraq. Biography Family tree Al-Hakim is a member of the Hakim family of Shiite scholars. Early life Al-Hakim was born in Najaf, the son of Ayatollah Sayyid Abdul a ...

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Allaedin Ghoraifi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Alaaeldeen bin Musa bin Mohammed Ali Almusawi Alghurayfi (Arabic: آية الله العظمى السيد علاء الدين بن موسى بن محمد علي الموسوي الغريفي) (born 1945) is an Iraqi Twelve ...

Ammar al-Hakim Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim ( ar, سید عمار الحكيم) is an Iraqi cleric and politician who led the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, from 2009 to 2017. Early life Al-Hakim was born in 1971 in Al-Najaf, the son of Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, who ...

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Hassan al-Shirazi Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan al-Husayni al-Shirazi. ( ar, حسن الحسيني الشيرازي; fa, ; 1935–May 2, 1980) was an Iraqi-Iranian Shia scholar, thinker, and poet. He was assassinated in Beirut at the hands of the Baathist intelligence. ...

Husham Al-Husainy Husham Al-Husainy is an Iraqi-American Sheikh of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center, a Shia mosque servicing largely people of Iraqi and Lebanese descent in Dearborn, Michigan. Al-Husainy arrived in the United States in the late 1970s as Saddam ...

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Hussein al-Shirazi Ayatollah Sayyid Hussein al-Husayni al-Shirazi (; fa, ; ) is an Iraqi-Iranian Twelver Shia cleric. He is a son of Grand Ayatollah Sadiq al-Shirazi. He is currently the head of his father's office and is residing in Qom, Iran. Early life and e ...

Iyad Jamal Al-Din Ayad Jamal Aldin or Iyad Jamal al-Din ( ar, ), full name Iyad Raouf Mohammed Jamal al-Din (born 1961), is a prominent Iraqi intellectual, politician and religious cleric. He was a member of the Iraqi parliament Jafar al-Hakim Sayyid Jafar al-Hakim (born 1965) is a high-ranking Shiite Ayatollah in Najaf, Iraq. Biography Family Tree Sayyid Jafar al-Hakim is a member of the well known and highly respected Hakim Family of Shiite scholars. Early life Sayyid Jafar al-H ...

Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir Sheikh Jalal al-Din Ali al-Sagheer ( ar, جلال الدين علي الصغير, Jalāl ud-Dīn ʿAliyy aṣ-Ṣaḡīr) is an Iraqi politician and a former member of parliament in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. Prior to the 2003 US-led Inva ...

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Mohammad al-Sadr Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Muhammad-Sadiq al-Sadr ( ar, '';'' 23 March 1943 – 19 February 1999) was a prominent Iraqi Shia marja'. He called for government reform and the release of detained Shia leaders. The growth of his popularity, o ...

Muhammad Ali al-Hakim Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Ali al-Hakim (1911–2011) was a high-ranking Shiite ayatollah. Ayatollah Muhammad al-Hakim was the father of the Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Saeed Al-Hakim. Biography Family tree Muhammad Ali al-Hakim is a member of the Ha ...

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Mohammad Ali Tabatabaei Hassani Grand Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Ali Tabatabai Al-Hassani ( ar, السيد محمد علي الطباطبائي الحسني; 1945 – February 2017) was an Iraqi, Twelver Shia Muslim Marja'. He studied in Shia Islamic seminaries of Karbala and ...

Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim Ayatollah al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Muhsin al-Hakim at-Tabataba'i (8 July 1939 – 29 August 2003; ar, السيد محمد باقر محسن الحكيم الطباطبائي), also known as Shaheed al-Mehraab, was a senior Iraqi Shia Islamic S ...

Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr ( ar, آية الله العظمى السيد محمد باقر الصدر; 1 March 1935 – 9 April 1980), also known as al-Shahīd al-Khāmis (the fifth martyr), was an Iraqi philosopher, and the ideological founde ...

Mohammad Hadi al-Milani Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Hadi Milani (; ; July 1, 1895 – August 7, 1975) was an Iraqi-Iranian marja'. al-Milani was also active in political and social affairs. When he moved to Mashhad, the Islamic seminary of Mashhad flourished. He cont ...

* Mohammad Ebrahim Ansari *

Mohammed Kadhim al-Qazwini Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Kadhim al-Musawi al-Qazwini (; ; March 13, 1930 – November 17, 1994) was an Iraqi Shia scholar, poet and orator of Iranian descent. He was born in Karbala, Iraq and died in Qom, Iran. He was a dubbed the 'master of Ka ...

Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monoth ...

Mohammad al-Shirazi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Shirazi ( ar, محمد الحسيني الشيرازي; fa, ; August 31, 1928 – December 17, 2001), commonly known as Imam Shirazi, was an Iranian- Iraqi Shia marja' and political activist. Early l ...

* Mohammad Taher Khaqani * * Mohammad Yaqoobi *

Muhsin al-Hakim Muhsin al-Tabatabaei al-Hakim ( ar, محسن الطباطبائي الحكيم; 31 May 1889 – 2 June 1970) was an Iraqi Shia religious authority. He became the leading marja' of Najaf in 1946 after the death of Abu al-Hasan al-Isfahani, and ...

Mujtaba al-Shirazi Ayatollah Sayyid Mujtaba al-Husayni al-Shirazi. ( ar, مجتبى الحسيني الشيرازي; fa, ; b. ِ6 August 1943) is an Iraq-Iranian Shia jurist. Early life and education al-Shirazi was born to Mirza Mahdi al-Shirazi and Halima al- ...

Murtadha al-Qazwini Ayatollah Sayyid Murtadha al-Musawi al-Qazwini (; b. August 1, 1930) is a senior Iraqi Shia jurist, poet and orator of Iranian descent. al-Qazwini is currently the Imam of the eastern wing of the Imam Husayn shrine. He lived in exile for twenty ...

* Murtadha al-Shirazi *

Moustafa Al-Qazwini Hujjat al-Islam Sayyid Dr. Moustafa al-Musawi al-Qazwini ( ar, مصطفى الموسوي القزويني; born 1961) is an Iraqi- American Shia Imam. He is the Imam at the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County in Orange Country, Californi ...

* Qais Khazali *

Qasem Taei Grand Ayatollah Qasem Taei ( ar, قاسم الطائي; 1960 – 16 September 2023) was an Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja. Taei studied in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. He was the author of many ...

Sadiq al-Shirazi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husayni al-Shirazi ( ar, صادق الحسيني الشيرازي; fa, سید صادق حسینی شیرازی; born August 20, 1942) is an Iraqi-Iranian Shia marja'. He hails from an influential transnational cl ...

* Saleh Taei *

Shamsodin Vaezi Grand Ayatollah Shams al-din al-Waizi (Arabic: شمس الدين الواعظي) (born 1936) is an Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja'. He has studied in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei and Muhsin al-Hakim.

Kuwait

* Muhammad Baqir al-Muhri

Lebanon

Abbas al-Musawi Abbas al-Musawi (; ar, عباس الموسوي; 26 October 1952 – 16 February 1992) was an influential Lebanese Shia cleric, co-founder and Secretary General of Hezbollah. He was killed by the Israel Defense Forces in 1992. Early life ...

Abdel Karim Obeid Abdel Karim Obeid (; ar, الشيخ عبد الكريم عبيد; born 1957) is a Sheikh and Imam of the village of Jibchit in south Lebanon, high-place of Lebanese Shiism. Life Regarded as the spiritual leader and soldier of the 'Islamic Ama ...

Ali Al-Kourani Ali al-Kourani ( ar, علي الكوراني) is a Lebanese Shia scholar cleric. He was born in 1944 in Yater (Lebanon) In Jabal Amel, migrating to Najaf, Iraq to study in a ''hawza'' in 1958. In 1967, Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim sent him ...

Hashim Safi Al Din Hashim Safi Al Din (also transliterated Hashem Safieddine) (born 1964) is a Lebanese Shia cleric, senior Hezbollah official and a maternal cousin of the secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. He is the head of Hezbollah's Executive Co ...

Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah ( ar, حسن نصر الله ; born 31 August 1960) is a Lebanese cleric and political leader who has served as the 3rd secretary-general of Hezbollah since his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi, was assassinated by the Israel D ...

* Hossein Korani Ameli * Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah * Mohammad Mehdi Shamseddine *

Mohammad Yazbek Mohammad Yazbek (born 1950) is a Lebanese cleric. He is one of the Hezbollah founders and the head of the Sharia or religious council of the organization. Early life and education Yazbek hails from a family based in Bodai, a town near Baalbek ...

Musa al-Sadr Musa Sadr al-Din al-Sadr ( ar, موسى صدر الدين الصدر; 4 June 1928 – disappeared 31 August 1978) was an Iranian-born Lebanese scholar and political leader who founded the Amal Movement. Born in the Chaharmardan neighborhood o ...

* Naim Qassem * Ragheb Harb *

Subhi al-Tufayli Subhi al-Tufayli ( ar, صبحي الطفيلي) (born 1948) was the first Secretary-General or leader of Hezbollah for a year. Al-Tufayli is a Shia Islamist, but is a very vocal critic of Iran and the current Hezbollah leadership. He has been an ...

Nigeria

Ibrahim Zakzaky Ibraheem Yaqoub El-Zakzaky (alternately Ibraheem Zakzaky, Ibrahim Al-Zakzaky; born 5 May 1953) is a Nigerian religious leader. He is an imprisoned outspoken and prominent Shi'a Muslim leader in Nigeria. He is the head of Nigeria's Islamic Movem ...

* Qasim Umar Sokoto

Pakistan

* Syed Ali Raza Rizvi * Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Qumi *

Arif Hussain Hussaini ur, علامه عارف حسين الحسينى , location = Parachinar, Najaf and Qom , nationality = , residence = , citizenship = Pakistan , Title = Syed , spouse = , founder = Tehrik-e-Ja ...

* Bashir Hussain Najafi *

Fida Hussain Bukhari ''Fida'' (translation: ''Infatuated'') is a 2004 Indian romantic thriller film released on 20 August 2004. The film is directed by Ken Ghosh and stars Fardeen Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor. The film was a box office bomb. Plot Some ...

Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi (; 12 May 1940– 25 July 2022) was the patron-in-chief of the supreme Shia ullama board and president of Tehrik-e-Nafaz-e-Fiqah-e-Jafaria ( ar, تحریکِ نفاذِ فقہ جعفريه), the Shiite-law implem ...

* Hafiz Riaz Hussain Najafi *

Hassan Raza Ghadeeri Ayatollah Hassan Raza Ghadeeri (born 1952) is a Shia scholar and Ayatollah (mujtahid) of Pakistan. His father, Mufti Muzammil Hussain Meesmi, was the first Mufti of Punjab. Biography Grand Ayatollah Hassan Raza Ghadeeri was born in Paki ...

Allama Hassan Turabi Allama Hassan Turabi (Urdu: علامہ حسن ترابی) was a Pakistani and prominent Shia Muslim cleric, chief of the main Shiite political party, Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan. He was assassinated by a Sunni Bangladeshi on 14 July 2006 followi ...

* Jawad Naqvi *

Muhammad Hussain Najafi Shaikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi ( ar, آيت الله العظمى علامه شيخ محمد حسين) (born 1932) is a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja. As of current, there are two maraji of Pakistani descent. The first one is he himself ...

Muhammad Latif Ansari Hujjat al-Islam Professor Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari (1887-1979), alternatively spelled Muḥammad Latīf Anṣārī, was a 20th-century Shia Islam, Shia Muslim scholar, poet, historian, and cleric from Pakistan. Ansari was born in British In ...

Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai Partaw-i Shah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hubb-i 'Ali Hunzai (17 May 1917 – 15 January 2017), known also as '' 'Allamah'' (lit. learned) ''Hunzai', 'Allamah Sahib'', or by his epithets, ''Baba-yi Burushaski'' (lit. The Father of Burushaski), ''Lisan al- ...

* Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi * Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi *

Talib Jauhari Talib Johri (27 August 1929 – 21 June 2020) ( ur, ) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, poet, historian and philosopher of the Shia Sect of Islam. He is widely renowned as the most prominent Shia scholar, and his sermons were broadcast on PTV ...

* Zeeshan Haider Jawadi

Saudi Arabia

Nimr al-Nimr Ayatollah Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr ( ar, نمر باقر النمر, Nimr Bāqir an-Nimr, Bakir al-Nimr, al-Nemr, al-Namr, al-Nimer, al-Nemer, al-Namer; 21 June 1959 – 2 January 2016), commonly referred to as Sheikh Nimr, was a Shia sheikh in ...

Historical Scholars

Notes

References

*''Religion and Politics in Iraq. Shiite Clerics between Quietism and Resistance'', M. Ismail Marcinkowski (). {{DEFAULTSORT:Shi'a Clergy Shia Islam