Mohammad Javad Pishvai
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Seyyed Mohammad Javad Pishvai (Persian:سید_محمد_جواد_پیشوایی ;
Bandar-e Anzali Bandar-e Anzali ( fa, بندرانزلی, also Romanized as Bandar-e Anzalī; renamed as Bandar-e Pahlavi during the Pahlavi dynasty) is a city of Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 144,664. Anzali is one of the mos ...
, b. 1944) is the religious leader of
Bandar-e Anzali Bandar-e Anzali ( fa, بندرانزلی, also Romanized as Bandar-e Anzalī; renamed as Bandar-e Pahlavi during the Pahlavi dynasty) is a city of Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 144,664. Anzali is one of the mos ...
, appointed by a handwritten verdict of
Ayatollah Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...
5 days after the establishment of the
Islamic Republic The term Islamic republic has been used in different ways. Some Muslim religious leaders have used it as the name for a theoretical form of Islamic theocratic government enforcing sharia, or laws compatible with sharia. The term has also been u ...
. He was born a son of Ayatollah Seyyed Aboutaleb Pishvai, religious leader of
Bandar-e Anzali Bandar-e Anzali ( fa, بندرانزلی, also Romanized as Bandar-e Anzalī; renamed as Bandar-e Pahlavi during the Pahlavi dynasty) is a city of Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 144,664. Anzali is one of the mos ...
from 1951 to 1978. In 1961 he was dressed in clerical garbs by Ayatollah Khomeini, who had come to pay a visit to his father Ayatollah Pishvai. From 1965 to 1975 he attended Hakim Religious School in
Qom Qom (also spelled as "Ghom", "Ghum", or "Qum") ( fa, قم ) is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. Qom is the capital of Qom Province. It is located to the south of Tehran. At the 2016 census, its popul ...
in order to receive a certificate granting him the right to represent religious institutions. In 1981, Ayatollah Khomeini sent him, as the supreme's leader official representative, across the country on a religious mission to Sistan and Baluchestan Province, a place very unlike the Caspian harbor city Pishvai represented before. Ayatolah-pishvaee04.jpg, Pishvai on the battleground during the Iran-Iraq War Ayatolah-pishvaee03.jpg, Pishvai in 1964, giving his first lecture in the Grand Mosque of Bandar-e Anzali Ayatolah-pishvaee05.jpg, Pishvai giving a speech in his hometown of Bandar-e Anzali


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pishvai, Mohammad Javad 1944 births Living people Iranian ayatollahs