1951) is an Iraqi author, politician, essayist, college professor, and founder of the Ahl al-Bayt University in Karbala.
He grew up in Iraq, and gained his bachelor's degree in 1974 from the Osol Aldeen College in the University of Baghdad.
He then moved to Lebanon, and gained his masters and doctorate from the Islamic University of Imam al-Auzai in Beirut in 1992 and 1995.
[3] After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, al-Qazwini moved back Karbala, and at the Ministry of Higher Education's discretion, he managed to purchase a building and establish the university on the ground.
In 2007, al-Qazwini purchased a plot of land sized at 7000 m2, that was 4 kilometres from the shrine of Imam Hussein, and built a second branch for the university.