Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi (, born 1940) is a Supreme Leader's representative in Golestan Province, the leader of congregational Friday prayers of Gorgan, and a former member of the Assembly of Experts in Iran. He is considered the oldest Friday prayer leader in the country and the only provincial representative of the Supreme Leader of Iran to be a reformist .
Biography
Before Iran revolution
Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi was born in 1940. After elementary school, at the age of twelve, he studied religious sciences, and after four years of studying in Gorgan, he moved to Mashhad and from there to Qom. In the important centres of Islamic education, he studied religious sciences and attained the degree of ijtihad. Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini, Mohaghegh Damad, Mohammad Ali Araki, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Golpayegani, Morteza Haeri Yazdi and Morteza Motahhari were among his professors.
Marriage
In 1962, he married the sister of Mohammad Fazel Lankarani and he has three sons and a daughter.
Struggles
Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi was an activist in the fight against Pahlavi. He was once commissioned by Ruhollah Khomeini to deliver his message to the
of
Gorgan.
After Iran revolution
At the beginning of the Iranian Revolution, he became the head of the temporary committee of the youth revolution. In 1979, he was appointed the Friday Imamate of
Gorgan and the representative of Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini in
Gorgan and Dasht region. After Khomeini's death, the sentence of representing his supreme leader was enforced by
Ali Khamenei.
Career
He is now the representative of the Vali-Faqih in Golestan province, leader of congregational
, a former member of the Assembly of experts, lecturer in the supreme and outside of the jurisprudence of Gorgan Seminary and the head of the Management Council of the Golestan Seminary.
See also
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Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
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Sadeq Larijani
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Abdul-Nabi Namazi
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List of ayatollahs
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List of members in the First Term of the Council of Experts
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