Muhsin Al-Hakim

male
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhsin al-Tabataba'i al-Hakim (1889-1970) was born into a family, the Tabatabai, renowned for its scholarship. He was always...

Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq Al-Sadr

male, deceased (1999)
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, often referred to as Muhammad Sadiq as-Sadr which is his father's name, was a prominent, Iraqi...

Mohammad Ali Araki

male, deceased (1994)
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Araki (1895-1994) was an Iranian Shia Marja. He was a teacher in the hawza of Qom. He was born in Arak, Iran and died...
Mohammad Reza Golpaygani

Mohammad Reza Golpaygani

male
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Golpaygani (1898-1993) was born in Gogad village, near the city of Golpaygan, Iran. He was taught preliminary studies...

Mohammad-Javad Larijani

male
Mohammad Javad Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician and mathematician. He is currently the Director of Institute for Studies in Theoretical...
Mohammad Fazel Lankarani

Mohammad Fazel Lankarani

male, deceased (2007)
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Fazel Lankarani was the son of the late Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, and a student of Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi. He was an...
Mirza Javad Tabrizi

Mirza Javad Tabrizi

male, deceased (2006)
Grand Ayatollah Mirza Javad Tabrizi (1926-2006) was an Iranian Shia Marja. He was born in Tabriz, Iran and died in Qom. At 22 he moved to Qom and...

Abdul Karim Haeri Yazdi

male
Grand Ayatollah Hajj Shaykh Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi was a Shia Muslim cleric and marja. He founded the important Islamic seminary (hawza) of Qom,...

Abdollah Javadi-Amoli

male
Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli is one of the prominent Islamic scholars of Hawza in Qom. He was born in 1933 in Amol, north of Iran. Then he...

Mohammad Va'Ez Abaee-Khorasani

male, deceased (2004)
Ayatollah Mohammad Va'ez Abaee-Khorasani was an Iranian cleric and reformist politician. He was a representative of Mashhad in the Majlis of Iran...