What is Hossein Wahid Khorasani?
[[File:Hossein Vahid Khorasani, mourning martyrdom of Imam Ali in Qom (41545).jpg|right|200px]] [[Grand Ayatollah]] [[Sheikh]] '''Hossein Vahid Khorasani''' ({{lang-fa|حسین وحید خراسانی}}; born '''Mohammad-Hossein Molla-Saleh''' (Persian: {{lang|fa|محمدحسین ملاصالح}})&lrm;; 1 January 1921) is an Iranian writer and [[Shia Islam|Shia]] [[marja']]. He was born in [[Nishapur]], [[Iran]]. He is the head of the [[Qom Seminary]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0QqAQAAIAAJ|title=Acta orientalia: ediderunt societates orientales Batava, Danica, Norvegica|date=2007|publisher=E.J. Brill.|pages=48|language=en}}</ref> Khorasani is said to be the most learned Shia religious figure.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sratali.rigala.net/t6-topic|title=al-Qa'ilun Bi A'lamiyat Ayatollah al-Udhma al-Sheikh Wahid al-Khorasani|website=sratali.rigala.net|language=ar|trans-title=Declarations of Khorasani's leading religious authority|access-date=2020-04-18}}</ref> His lectures and quotes have been used against the thinking of the [[Supreme Leader of Iran|supreme leader of Iran]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6fbd1efa-1374-11e0-a367-00144feabdc0|title=Leading cleric defies Tehran on confessions|last=Bozorgmehr|first=Najmeh|website=Financial Times|date=29 December 2010|access-date=2020-04-18}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wahid Khorasani, Hossein}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Iranian writers]] [[Category:Iranian centenarians]] {{bio-stub}}