Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi | |
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 Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Gerami | |
| Born | 1938 Iran |
| Website | www.ayat-gerami.ir |
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi (Persian: محمدعلى گرامى قمي; born 1938) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. [1] [2]
He has studied in seminaries of Qum, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Ali Meshkini, Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Mohammad Ali Araki, Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani and Mirza Hashem Amoli. [3] [4]
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