Ahmad Marvi


Ahmad Marvi is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who has recently been appointed as the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi by the decree of the supreme leader of Iran, Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Before that, he was in charge of a department at Iranian supreme leader office, responsible for contacts and communications with religious seminaries; and likewise the chief of "Estehlal Headquarters" of the "supreme leader office".
Ahmad Marvi has educated at seminary and university in high levels of fiqh/principles, and Ph.D. in "theology and Islamic education"; and had teachers such as: Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Abolghasem Khazali, Taheri KhoramAbbadi, Hossein Waheed Khorasani and Mojtaba Tehrani. Marvi who is also known as "Hujjatul-Islam Marvi" replaced Ebrahim Raisi as the new chief custodian and trustee of the Astan Quds Razavi, by the order of Ali Khamenei, on 30 March 2019.