Hamid Shahriari (

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

: حمید شهریاری) (born: 1963,

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

); complete name: "Hamid Hawali Shahriari" (Persian: حمید حوالی شهریاری) is an Iranian

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 Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...

cleric who has recently been appointed as the general secretary of

The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought (WFPIST) as well as Tehran's Ecumenical Society ( fa, مجمع جهانی تقریب مذاهب اسلامی) is a forum that was established on October 1990 by order of Ayatollah Seyed Al ...

by the decree of Iran's supreme leader,

Seyyed Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...

—instead of

Mohsen Araki Mohsen Araki ( fa, محسن اراکی; ar, محسن الأراكي) is an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer and politician. He is currently a member of the Assembly of Experts and also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. ...

. Shahriari (also known as "Hujjatul-Islam Shahriari") was the head of "''the Center for Statistics and Informatics''" in

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, and was also the head of "the center of computer research Islamic sciences". He was likewise a member of ''the supreme council of cyberspace''. This Iranian cleric, went to

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 early ...

in 1981, and finished his seminary studies in 6 years. He was busy in teaching in the lessons of seminary beside his education, and was also studying Arabic and English languages. After passing

Hawzah A hawza ( ar, حوزة) or ḥawzah ʿilmīyah ( ar, حوزة علمیة) is a seminary where Shi'a Muslim scholars are educated. The word ''ḥawzah'' is found in Arabic as well as the Persian language. In Arabic, the word means "to hold so ...

education, he participated in the classes of teachers, amongst: Seyyed Kazem Haeri (Kazem al-Haeri) and

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 ...

for ten years at ''"the lesson(s) on Jurisprudence and Principles"''Hujjat-al-Islam Hamid shahriari
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shahriari, Hamid Living people People from Tehran Iranian ayatollahs 1963 births Iran's Book of the Year Awards recipients

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