Mohammad Alavi Gorgani

BornMarch 1940

Najaf, Iraq^[1]

Died15 March 2022(2022-03-15) (aged 81–82)

Tehran, Iran

Websitewww.gorgani.ir

Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Alavi Gorgani
Born	March 1940 Najaf, Iraq[1]
Died	15 March 2022(2022-03-15) (aged 81–82) Tehran, Iran
Website	www.gorgani.ir

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Ali Hosseini Alavi Gorgani (Persian: سيد محمد على حسينى علوى گرگانى; March 1940 – 15 March 2022) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a marja.^[2][3][4]

He was born in a religious family in Najaf, Iraq. He rose to a leading scholar in Najaf, and moved to Qom after the fall of Pahlavi Iran in 1979. Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani studied under the late Ayatollah Bourujerdi, Ayatollah Khomeni, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Araki, and Ayatollah Golpaygani.^[5][6]

Alavi Gorgani died on 15 March 2022.^{[7][8][9][10]}