Kazem Nourmofidi

Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi
Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi
سید کاظم نورمفیدی
Representative of the Supreme Leader in Golestan and Friday Prayers Imam of Gorgan
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 23 July 1979
Appointed by	Ruhollah Khomeini
Member of the Assembly of Experts
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 12 December 1982
Constituency	Mazandaran Golestan
Personal details
Born	1940; Gorgan, Iran

He is considered the oldest Friday prayer leader in the country and the only representative of the reformist Supreme Leader in Iran.

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 mullahs 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 Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

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.

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