Leadership
Ayatollah Ahmad Moballeghi
Titles
Rector, University of Islamic Religions of Iran; Co-President, Religions for Peace
Muslim, Iran
Ayatollah Ahmad Moballeghi is a professor of Qom Seminary at Kharij level, a member of the Assembly of Experts, and the president of the Majlis Islamic Studies Center in Qom.
He is one of the international figures of Hawza as well as one of the most eminent theoreticians in Fiqh (Jurisprudence) concerning the proximity of various religious schools and religions.
He was born on 14 January 1961 in Khorramabad, Iran. His father, Ayatollah Mashaallah Morawweji, was one of the distinguished scholars of Lorestan. He was one of the activists of the Iranian Revolution; and, in the process of his political activities, he was arrested and imprisoned.