Period in office 1972 - Present Role Ayatollah Post Grand Ayatollah Titles Ayatollah | Website www.wahidkhorasani.com Based in Qom Name Hossein Khorasani | |
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Religion Usuli Twelver Shia Islam Other names Arabic: حسین وحید الخراساني
Persian: حسین وحید خراسانی Born January 1, 1921 (age 103)
Nishapur, Iran ( 1921-01-01 ) Children Mohammad Esmaeil Vahid Khorasani, Mohsen Vahid Khorasani Books Be Yad Avval Mazlum Ruzgar (In the Memory of the Wronged One): A Brief Introduction to the Doctrine of Imamte and the Life of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib | ||
Grand Ayatollah Hussain Vahid Khorasani (Arabic: حسین وحید الخراسانی Persian: حسین وحید خراسانی, born January 1, 1921) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja'.
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Biography
Hussain Vahid Khorasani was born in Nishapur, Iran on 1 January 1921. He moved to Najaf, Iraq in 1940 and studied in Ayatollah Khoei Seminary (Hawza) and moved back to Iran in 1972. Currently, Khorasani residing in Qom and is considered as source of emulation. He is also the father-in-law of Sadeq Larijani.
Teachers
He learned Arabic literature from Mohammad Nahavandi and then completed the acquisition of religious knowledge in the course outside Mirza Mehdi Esfahani and Ayatollah Ashtiani. Rational sciences, philosophy and wisdom from Abu al-Qasim Mirza and Mirza Mahdi Isfahani Elahi trained And to complete the basics at age 27 went to Najaf, and at lesson Mirza Hadi Shirazi, Ali Mohammad Boroujerdi, Muhsin al-Hakim and participated in the Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei and one of his leading disciples.
