Hossein Wahid Khorasani

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh
Hossein Wahid Khorasani
Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Hossein Wahid Khorasani
شیخ حسین وحید خراسانی
	Khorasani in 2017
Title	Grand Ayatollah
Personal life
Born	Mohammad-Hossein Molla-Saleh; 1 January 1921 (age 104); Nishapur, Iran
Children	2
Relatives	Sadeq Larijani (son-in-law)
Senior posting
Based in	Qom, Iran
Post	Chancellor of Qom Seminary
Period in office	1972–2024
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Twelver Shia
Jurisprudence	Jafari, (Usuli)
Website	http://wahidkhorasani.com/

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Hossein Wahid Khorasani (Persian: حسین وحید خراسانی; born Mohammad-Hossein Molla-Saleh (Persian: محمدحسین ملاصالح)‎; 1 January 1921) is an Iranian author and Shia marja'.

He is the current head of the Qom Seminary.^[1] Khorasani is considered to be the most learned Shia religious authority alive by a number of scholars.^[2]

^ Acta orientalia: ediderunt societates orientales Batava, Danica, Norvegica. E.J. Brill. 2007. p. 48.
^ "al-Qa'ilun Bi A'lamiyat Ayatollah al-Udhma al-Sheikh Wahid al-Khorasani" [Declarations of Khorasani's leading religious authority]. sratali.rigala.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-04-18.

[1] Acta orientalia: ediderunt societates orientales Batava, Danica, Norvegica. E.J. Brill. 2007. p. 48.

[2] "al-Qa'ilun Bi A'lamiyat Ayatollah al-Udhma al-Sheikh Wahid al-Khorasani" [Declarations of Khorasani's leading religious authority]. sratali.rigala.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-04-18.

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