Alireza Arafi ( fa, علی رضا اعرافی) (born 1956, in

Meybod Meybod ( fa, Meybod) is a city in and capital of Meybod County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 58,295, in 15,703 families. Meybod is a major desert city in Yazd Province, Iran, with a population of about 75,000 m ...

) is an Iranian

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cleric and he is currently a member of the Guardian Council and also a member of the

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. He was former Chairman of

Al-Mustafa International University Al-Mustafa International University (MIU) ( ar, جامعة المصطفىٰ العالمية; fa, جامعه المصطفی العالمیه, ''Jam'h-e Almistâfi-ye Al'alâmih'') is an international academic, Islamic and university-style seminar ...

, Qom Friday prayer leader and head of

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's Seminary.

Biography

Arafi was born in 1959 in the city of Maybod, in the province of

Yazd Yazd ( fa, یزد ), formerly also known as Yezd, is the capital of Yazd Province, Iran. The city is located southeast of Isfahan. At the 2016 census, the population was 1,138,533. Since 2017, the historical city of Yazd is recognized as a Wor ...

His father, Mohammad Ibrahim al-Arafi, was a close friend Ruhollah Khomeini Before the Islamic Revolution he used to be a preacher and a writer. Despite his lack of participation in the written test by the Guardian Council to participate in the Assembly of Experts, he was confirmed to the Assembly in the elections of 2015, thanks to the Article III of the Law regulating the Assembly of Experts elections in Iran, which allows a discretionary approval by the

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to overrule the requirements of the Guardian Council .

Education

Began his classical education in their own country. After reading some of the lessons of literature, in 1970, came to Qom and Where he completed his primary school education at the same time he began his seminary courses and Courses preliminaries and finished quickly. During these years he did not take part in the courses and the courses are also open philosophy to the fullest extent swept and Also had a significant presence in the ethics of their professors. He also attended seminary courses, learned Arabic and English and Studies in mathematics and philosophy did not open West and Many books that were common in those days in the field, swept and cooperation in the field of education offices and universities (University Research Institute) attended.

Professors

His professors are as follows: *

Ali Meshkini Ali Akbar Feiz Aleni ( fa, علی‌اکبر فیض آلنی; 2 December 1921 – 30 July 2007), better known as Ali Meshkini, was an Iranian cleric and politician. Life Meshkini was an Iranian Azerbaijani born in a village near Meshkin Shahr ...

Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr ( ar, آية الله العظمى السيد محمد باقر الصدر; 1 March 1935 – 9 April 1980), also known as al-Shahīd al-Khāmis (the fifth martyr), was an Iraqi philosopher, and the ideological founde ...

Kazem al-Haeri Grand Ayatollah Kadhim Husayni al-Haeri ( ar, كاظم الحسيني الحائري) (born 1938) is a prominent Twelver Shi'a Marja. He has studied in seminars of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Sadeq al-Sadr. Haeri was born in Karbala, Ira ...

* Morteza Haeri Yazdi * Mohammad Fazel Lankarani *

Hossein Vahid 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 ...

Jawad Tabrizi Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Mirza Jawad Kubar Tabrizi ( fa, ; 1926 – November 20, 2006) was an Iranian Shia marja'. Tabrizi was another prominent student of the late grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, and one of the leading religious au ...

Abdollah Javadi-Amoli Abdollah Javadi Amoli ( fa, عبدالله جوادی آملی; born ) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative and principlist Iranian politician, philosopher and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza. The offic ...

Morteza Motahhari Morteza Motahhari ( fa, مرتضی مطهری, also Romanized as "Mortezā Motahharī"; 31 January 1919 – 1 May 1979) was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, lecturer. Motahhari is considered to have an important influence on th ...

Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi Ayatollah Taqi Mesbah ( fa, تقی مصباح‌; born Taqi Givechi, fa, تقی گیوه‌چی), commonly known as Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi ( fa, محمدتقی مصباح‌ یزدی, 31 January 1935 – 1 January 2021) was an Iranian Shi' ...

Records and responsibilities

* President of the International Center for Islamic Sciences and a member of the board of trustees * President of the University Research Institute * Educational Department in

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* Research Council of

Qom Seminary The Qom Seminary () is the largest Islamic seminary (''hawza'') in Iran, established in 1922 by Grand Ayatollah Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi in Qom. It trains Usuli scholars. History Although big Shi'a academies existed in Qom dating back as earl ...

* Friday the city of

* Member of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution * Seminary president of Iran

Views

Arafi is strongly opposed to atheism and Christianity (especially

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in Iran), which he considers forms of idolatry. He also is critical of how the seminary in Qom is run theologically.

External link

Alireza Aarafi Biography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arafi, Alireza 1959 births Living people Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom members Iranian Shia clerics People from Yazd Province Critics of atheism Iranian critics of Christianity Imam Khomeini's Educational and Research Institute Academic staff of Al-Mustafa International University