Mohammad-Ali Mousavi Jazayeri | |
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Member of the Assembly of Experts for Leadership[1][2][3][4] | |
Assumed office 15 August 1983 | |
Constituency | Khuzestan province[5][6][7] |
Majority | 783,004 (39.28%) |
Member of the Assembly of Experts for Constitution | |
In office 15 August 1979 – 15 November 1979 | |
Constituency | Khuzestan province |
Majority | 313,118 (17.8%) |
Personal details | |
Born | 1941 (age 82–83) Shushtar, Iran |
Political party | Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom |
Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad-Ali Mousavi Jazayeri (Persian: محمدعلی موسوی جزایری) (born 1941) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric,[8] who has been appointed as the representative of Vali-Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) in Khuzestan province by the order of Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini, who was the previous Supreme Leader of Iran.[9]
He was born in Shushtar, Khuzestan province, Iran.[10] He descends from Nematollah Jazayeri as a prominent Shia scholar.[11] Muhammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri has studied in seminaries of Qom, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Mohammad Ali Araki; and also in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei.[12][13][14]
Meanwhile, Ayatollah Mousavi Jazayeri is considered as (the permanent) Imam al-Jom'ah of Ahvaz beside other (temporary) Imams of Jom'ah of Ahvaz, including:
Among his (most important) scholarly works are as follows: