Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Zanjani ( fa, سید محمد حسینی زنجانی) (born 1947 in Qom) is an

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Early life

Zanjani was born in 1947. His father

Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani ( fa, سید محمد عزالدین حسيني زنجانی) (1 November 1921 – 14 May 2013) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja'. He studied in seminaries of Qom, Iran under Grand Ayato ...

studied under

Muhammad Hujjat Kuh-Kamari Seyyed Mohammad Hojjat Kooh Kamari was a contemporary Iranian Muslim Faqīh and a Twelver Marja' who was in charge of the administration of the Qom Seminary for ten years. He was born on 17 March 1893 and died on 19 January 1953. He was a promi ...

and

Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Hossein Ali Tababataei Borujerdi (Luri/ fa, آیت الله العظمی سید حسین طباطبایی بروجردی; 23 March 1875 – 30 March 1961) was a leading Iranian Shia Marja' in Iran from approximately 1947 t ...

in jurisprudence and

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and

Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i or Sayyid Mohammad Hossein Tabataba'i (16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981) was an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam. He is perhaps best known for his ''T ...

in philosophy. Due to his revolutionary struggle against the

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in 1973, he was exiled until his death. His grandfather Mirza Mahmoud Hosseini Zanjani studied under Mirza Naini, aqa Zia Iraqi, Sheikh al-Isfahani,

Mohammed Kazem Yazdi Mohammed Kazem Tabataba'i Yazdi (; 1831–1919) was a Twelver Shia Marja' based in Najaf, most famous for compiling a collection of religious rulings, al-Urwa al-wuthqa. Constitutional Revolution He was apolitical, and therefore during the Irani ...

and Mohammad Esfahani Qa'ravi), respectively. His family lineage is the fourth Imam

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, the Shia. Hosseini Zanjani has three sons and a daughter.

Education

At an early age his father returned and he took basic seminary courses. In 1964, he went to Qom and studied under Morteza Bani Fazl and Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi. After leaving Qom, he studied under GH Alam al-Hoda Sayed Ibrahim.

Friday prayer

In recent years, various proposals for the adoption of Zanjan Friday prayer were rejected, preferring regional solutions.

Migration to Mashhad

After the death of Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani and the mass appeal of Mashhad seminary scholars, a group of his followers migrated to the holy city of

Mashhad Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of R ...

Practical treatise

Zanjan published his dissertation in 2013. As of 2016, he had published four editions. His treatise is the only source of emulation based in Mashhad.

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