Qom Seminary

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei at the Qom Seminary, 15 March 2016
Qom Seminary

The Qom Seminary (Persian: حوزه علمیه قم) is the largest Islamic seminary (hawza) in Iran, established in 1922 by Grand Ayatollah Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi in Qom.[1] It trains Usuli scholars.

  1. ^ Walbridge, Linda S. The most learned of the Shiʻa: the institution of the Marjaʻ taqlid Oxford University Press, p.217.

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