Grand Ayatollah Abbas Mahfouzi (Arabic: آيت‌الله العظمى عباس محفوظى; born 1928) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja.[1][2][3] He has studied in seminars of Qom, Iran under Ruhollah Khomeini, Grand Ayatollah Houssein Borujerdi and Mirza Hashem Amoli.[4][5]

Grand Ayatollah
Abbas Mahfouzi
آيت‌الله العظمى عباس محفوظى
Grand Ayatollah Abbas Mahfouzi
Personal
Born1928 (age 95–96)
Rudsar, Iran
ReligionUsuli Twelver Shia Islam
Senior posting
Based inQom, Iran
PostGrand Ayatollah
Websitehttp://www.mahfoozi.ir

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Grand Ayatollah Abbas Mahfouzi was born in Rudsar, Iran. He started the education of Quran in his childhood. For higher education, he went to Rudsar Seminary. Later he traveled to Qom and studied in Seminars of Qom under Imam Khomeni, Houssein Borujerdi, Mirza Hashem Amoli, Mohammad Reza Golpaygani and Houssein Ali Montezari. He was a firm supporter of Khomeni and he supported Khomeini during 1979 Iranian Revolution.[6][7]

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  1. ^ Official Website
  2. ^ Biography
  3. ^ "List of Maraji (2017)". Archived from the original on 2018-08-19. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
  4. ^ زندگى‌نامه حضرت آيت‌الله العظمى عباس محفوظى
  5. ^ "آيت‌الله عباس محفوظى". Archived from the original on 2017-08-29. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  6. ^ Another Biography[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Biography in English

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