Mohammad Alavi Gorgani

Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Alavi Gorgani
Born March 1940 (age 78)
Najaf, Iraq [1]
Website www.gorgani.ir

Grand Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini Alavi Gorgani (Persian: سيد محمد على حسينى علوى گرگانى‎) (born 1940) is an Iranian Twelver shi'a marja.[2][3][4] He was born in a religious family in Golestan, Iran. He rose to a leading scholar in Najaf, and moved to Qom in 1979. Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani has studied under the late Ayatollah Bourujerdi, Ayatollah Khomeni, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Araki and Ayatollah Golpaygani.[5][6]

The top maraji of Qom Hawzah: (from left to right) Naser Makarem Shirazi, Hossein Vahid Khorasani, Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani, Hossein Noori Hamedani, Kazem al-Haeri and Mohammad Alavi Gorgani

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  1. ↑ (in Persian) Biography of G. Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani 25 April 2005
  2. ↑ List of Maraji in Arabic Archived 2 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ List of Maraji in Persian (1)
  4. ↑ List of Maraji in Persian (2)
  5. ↑ Biography in Persian
  6. ↑ (in Persian) Works of G. Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani 25 April 2005
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