Ahmad Marvi (

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: احمد مروی) (born: 1958, Mashhad) is an

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Twelver Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mo ...

cleric, former general and former police officer who has recently been appointed as the custodian of

Astan Quds Razavi Astan Quds Razavi ( fa, آستان قدس رضوی, Āstān-e Qods-e Razavi) is a bonyad based at Mashhad, Iran. It is the administrative organization which manages the Imam Reza shrine and various institutions which belong to the organization. ...

(Persian: آستان قدس رضوی) by the decree of the supreme leader of Iran,

Seyyed Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is ...

. Before that, he was in charge of a department at Iranian supreme leader

office An office is a space where an organization's employees perform administrative work in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific du ...

, responsible for contacts and communications with religious seminaries; and likewise the chief of " Estehlal Headquarters" of the " supreme leader office". Ahmad Marvi has educated at

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and university in high levels of

fiqh ''Fiqh'' (; ar, فقه ) is Islamic jurisprudence. Muhammad-> Companions-> Followers-> Fiqh. The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...

/principles, and Ph.D. in "theology and Islamic education"; and had teachers such as: Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Abolghasem Khazali, Taheri Khoram Abbadi,

Hossein Waheed Khorasani Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Hossein Wahid Khorasani ( fa, حسین وحید خراسانی; born Mohammad-Hossein Molla-Saleh (Persian: )‎; 1 January 1921) is an Iranian author and Shia marja'. He is the current head of the Qom Seminary. Khorasa ...

and Mojtaba Tehrani. Marvi who is also known as "Hujjatul-Islam Marvi" replaced

Ebrahim Raisi Sayyid Ebrahim Raisolsadati ( fa, سید ابراهیم رئیس‌الساداتی; born 14 December 1960), commonly known as Ebrahim Raisi ( fa, ابراهیم رئیسی ), is an Iranian principlist politician, Muslim jurist, and the eight ...

as the new chief custodian and trustee of the Astan Quds Razavi, (which is a charitable organization holding trusteeship of " Imam Reza shrine" in Mashhad) by the order of Ali Khamenei, on 30 March 2019.

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Ayatollah Khamenei appointed Sheikh Ahmad Marvi as the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marvi, Ahmad Iranian Shia clerics Living people People from Mashhad 1958 births Iranian individuals subject to the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions Ferdowsi University of Mashad alumni Iranian police officers Iranian military chaplains