Religious Figures
Ayatollah Haj Agha Hossein Borujerdi (1252-1340) a High-Ranking Marja of the Shia
Sayyid Hossein Tabatabaei Borujerdi (March 15, 1875 – April 19, 1961) was an Iranian Shia Marja. He was the director of the Qom Seminary for seventeen years, and after the death of Sayyid Hossein Tabatabaei Qomi, he held the Marja'iyyat of the Shia for nearly 15 years.
Ayatollah Sheikh Farajollah Kazemi Momvandi, Shia Marja
He was born in the lunar year 1296 in the village of Golbaghi, a district of Nurabad Lorestan, and passed away in the lunar year 1381, corresponding to March 15, 1963, a week before the incident at the Feyziyeh School in Karbala, and was buried in Wadi-us-Salaam, Najaf.
Haj Agha Ruhollah Kamalvand 1279-1343
(1900, Khorramabad – 1964, Tehran) was a cleric of the 14th century Iran and a political activist against the social actions of Mohammad Reza Shah. He was a student of Sayyid Hossein Borujerdi and a classmate of Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini. Kamalvand, as a representative of the clerics, met with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and announced the opposition of the Shia clerics to the White Revolution to him.
Ayatollah Adinevand, a prominent scholar of Lorestan province – from Kohdasht (1929-2014)
Mohammad Reza Adinevand Ghobadi, known as Nahvi Lorestani, was born in 1929 in Gerkhoshab, Kohdasht County. Imam Khomeini had a special regard for him and played a role in providing for his needs and facilitating his teaching in Qom.
Martyr Seyyed Fakhruddin Rahimi (1944 - 1981)
Politician and Iranian cleric and a representative of the first term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and a political activist during the Shah era. He was killed in the Islamic Republic Party bombing on June 28, 1981.
Martyr Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Heydari in 1936.
He was born into a clerical family in the city of blood and uprising, Qom. His father, Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Vali Heydari, was a prominent and influential scholar in the western Lorestan region of Delfan County, and his honorable mother, Banu Khadijeh Begum, was from the noble Sadat.
