Kazem Nourmofidi

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Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi
سید کاظم نورمفیدی
Representative of the Supreme Leader in Golestan and Friday Prayers Imam of Gorgan
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 August 1981
Appointed by	Ruhollah Khomeini
Member of the Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 December 1982
Constituency	Golestan
Personal details
Born	Gorgan, Iran
Nationality	Iranian

Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi (Persian: سید کاظم نورمفیدی, born 1940) is a Supreme Leader's representative in Golestan Province, The leader of congregational Friday prayers of Gorgan, and is a member of the Assembly of Experts in Iran. He is considered the oldest Friday prayer leader in the country and the only representative of the reformist Supreme Leader in Iran.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

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.^[8]

Marriage[]

In 1962, he married the sister of Mohammad Fazel Lankarani and he has three sons and a daughter.^[9]

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 mullahs of Gorgan.^[10]

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 as 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 Seyyed Ali Khamenei.^[11][12][13]

Career[]

He is now the representative of the Vali-Faqih in Golestan province, leader of congregational Friday prayers, a 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.^{[12] [11]}

See also[]

• Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
• Sadeq Larijani
• Abdul-Nabi Namazi
• List of Ayatollahs
• List of members in the First Term of the Council of Experts

References[]

External links[]

• Official Website
• List of members of Assembly of Experts | Wikipedia
• List of provincial representatives appointed by Supreme Leader of Iran | Wikipedia
• Assembly of Experts | Official Website (Persian)
• 1998 ASSEMBLY OF EXPERTS ELECTION
• 2006 ASSEMBLY OF EXPERTS ELECTION

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