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Mohammad Alavi Gorgani

Mohammad Alavi Gorgani

Iranian Twelver Shi'a marja (1940–2022)

For other people named Mohammad Alavi, see Mohammad Alavi (disambiguation).

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Ali Hosseini Alavi Gorgani (Persian: سيد محمد على حسينى علوى گرگانى; March 1940 – 15 March 2022) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a marja.[2][3][4]

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He was born in a religious family in Najaf, Iraq. He rose to a leading scholar in Najaf, and moved to Qom after the fall of Pahlavi Iran in 1979. Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani studied under the late Ayatollah Bourujerdi, Ayatollah Khomeni, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Araki, and Ayatollah Golpaygani.[5][6]

Alavi Gorgani died on 15 March 2022.[7][8][9][10]

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References

  1. [1]
    (in Persian) Biography of G. Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani 25 April 2005
  2. [2]
    List of Maraji in Arabic Archived 2 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    List of Maraji in Persian (1)
  4. [4]
    List of Maraji in Persian (2)
  5. [5]
    Biography in Persian
  6. [6]
    (in Persian) Works of G. Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani 25 April 2005
  7. [7]
    "آیت الله علوی گرگانی به دیدار حق شتافت". ایرنا (in Persian). 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  8. [8]
    "مرجع بزرگ جهان تشیع به دیار باقی شتافت/ روح مطهر "آیت الله علوی گرگانی" پرکشید". ایسنا (in Persian). 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  9. [9]
    "مرحوم آیت‌الله‌ سیدمحمدعلی علوی گرگانی- عکس خبری تسنیم". خبرگزاری تسنیم (in Persian). Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  10. [10]
    "آیت الله علوی گرگانی درگذشت". fa (in Persian). 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.


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