Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri

Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad-Ali Mousavi Jazayeri (Persian: محمدعلی موسوی جزایری) (born 1941) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric,[8] who has been appointed as the representative of Vali-Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) in Khuzestan province by the order of Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini, who was the previous Supreme Leader of Iran.[9]

Mohammad-Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
Member of the Assembly of Experts for Leadership[1][2][3][4]
Assumed office
15 August 1983
ConstituencyKhuzestan province[5][6][7]
Majority783,004 (39.28%)
Member of the Assembly of Experts for Constitution
In office
15 August 1979  15 November 1979
ConstituencyKhuzestan province
Majority313,118 (17.8%)
Personal details
Born1941 (age 8182)
Shushtar, Iran
Political partySociety of Seminary Teachers of Qom

He was born in Shushtar, Khuzestan province, Iran.[10] He descends from Nematollah Jazayeri as a prominent Shia scholar.[11] Muhammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri has studied in seminaries of Qom, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Mohammad Ali Araki; and also in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei.[12][13][14]

Meanwhile, Ayatollah Mousavi Jazayeri is considered as (the permanent) Imam al-Jom'ah of Ahvaz beside other (temporary) Imams of Jom'ah of Ahvaz, including:

Works

Among his (most important) scholarly works are as follows:

  • Theses on justice
  • Al-Sawm (fast)[17]

See also

References

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