Grand Ayatollah Haj Mirza Hashem Amoli (Persian

Persian language

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: میرزا هاشم آملی; c. 1899-February 26, 1993) was a Shia cleric.

Amoli was born in 1899 in a village near Larijan

Larijan

Larijan District is a district in Amol county, Mazandaran Province, Iran. Its administrative center is Rineh. At the 2006 census, its population was 8,089, in 2,406 families. The District has two cities: Rineh and Gazanak.- References :...

. He studied Islamic sciences in Amol

Amol

Amol is a city in and the capital of Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 197,470, in 55,183 families.Amol and the old part of town is the first of the four towns that populate the world in which there is Nzamyh...

 (hence his name), Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

 (spending some time studying under Hassan Modarres

Hassan Modarres

Seyyed Hassan Modarres , was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric and a notable supporter of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. He was among the founding members, along with Abdolhossein Teymourtash, of the reformist party Hezb-e Eslaah-talab of the time, which was formed during the fourth...

), and Qom

Qom

Qom is a city in Iran. It lies by road southwest of Tehran and is the capital of Qom Province. At the 2006 census, its population was 957,496, in 241,827 families. It is situated on the banks of the Qom River....

. After achieving Ijtihad

Ijtihad

Ijtihad is the making of a decision in Islamic law by personal effort , independently of any school of jurisprudence . as opposed to taqlid, copying or obeying without question....

, Amoli moved to Najaf

Najaf

Najaf is a city in Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2008 is 560,000 people. It is the capital of Najaf Governorate...

 and stayed there for about thirty years. He moved back to Qom around 1963.

Amoli's famous students include Mohammad Taghi Majlesi, Mostafa Mohaghghegh Damad, Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani

Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani

Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani is born in 1928.And he is a member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was the chief justice of the supreme court of Iran, a position different from the head of the judiciary...

, Mohammad Mofatteh

Mohammad Mofatteh

Mohammad Mofatteh was an Iranian philosopher.Dr. Mohammad Mofateh, the skillful philosopher, was born in 1928 in Hamedan.- Education :He had attended Akhund Mullah Ali Hamedani’s school in Hamadan...

, and Mohammad Yazdi

Mohammad Yazdi

Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdii is an Iranian cleric who served as the head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999, following Ayatollah Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili and succeeded by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi....

.

Amoli was the father of five sons, which all hold or have held positions in the government of Islamic Republic of Iran. Ali Larijani

Ali Larijani

Ali Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian philosopher, politician and the chairman of the Iranian parliament. Larijani was the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from August 15, 2005 to October 20, 2007, appointed to the position by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,replacing Hassan Rowhani...

 (a member of Supreme National Security Council

Supreme National Security Council

Supreme National Security Council is the national security council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the current secretary of which is Saeed Jalili. This institution was founded during the 1989 revision of the constitution...

 and speaker of the Parliament), Sadegh Larijani (the head of the judiciary and former member of the Guardian Council

Guardian Council

The Guardian Council of the Constitution , also known as the Guardian Council or Council of Guardians, is an appointed and constitutionally-mandated 12-member council that wields considerable power and influence in the Islamic Republic of Iran....

), Mohammad Javad Larijani

Mohammad Javad Larijani

Mohammad Javad Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician, cleric and academic. Larijani is the head of the human rights council in the judiciary and a top adviser to the supreme leader. Additionally Larijani has been the Director of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics in...

, Bagher Larijani

Bagher Larijani

Bagher Larijani is a physician,Doctur, and former Deputy Minister of Health in Iran. He is one of five politically influential brothers, sons of Grand Ayatullah Mirza Hashem Amoli, who have been called the "Kennedys of Iran." The family's politics are considered Pragmatic conservative - strongly...

 (chancellor of Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

- General and History :Tehran University of Medical Sciences is the largest and "most distinguished", and most highly ranked medical school of Iran. In September 2008, the health minister of Iran - General and History :Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) is the largest and "most...

), and Fazel Larijani (Iran's cultural attaché in Ottawa

Ottawa

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).

External links

• Mirza Hashem Amoli 1 and Mirza Hashem Amoli 2 at tebyan-hamedan.ir (in Persian)