Office Islam
grand ayatollah
آية الله العظمى ar آیتالله العظمی fa
Highest clerical rank in Usuli Twelver Shia Islam.
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Succession in office
Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 13 holders
- 13 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 13
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Dates unrecorded Morteza Motahhari Iranian politician (1919-1979) -
Dates unrecorded Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani Iranian Grand Ayatollah -
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Dates unrecorded Al Sayed Musa al-Sadr Lebanese Shiite jurist and political activist -
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Dates unrecorded Hossein Borujerdi Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1875-1961) -
Dates unrecorded Mohammad Fazel Lankarani Iranian grand ayatollah (1931–2007) -
Dates unrecorded Ali Meshkini Iranian cleric (1922-2007) -
Dates unrecorded Hossein Noori Hamedani Iranian Grand ayatollah -
Dates unrecorded Mostafa Mohaqeq Damad Iranian cleric -
Dates unrecorded Naser Makarem Shirazi Iranian Mujtahid and author -
Dates unrecorded Abdollah Javadi Amoli Iranian politician - Dates unrecorded Reza Hosseini Nassab Iranian grand ayatollah
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Dates unrecorded Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani Iranian Ayatollah (1931–2014)
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Dates unrecorded Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1859–1937)
Connections
How grand ayatollah connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
5 statements on this record
- 5 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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