Nasir Hosseini

Seyyed Nasir Hosseini (Persian: سید نصیر حسینی) (born: 1967, Yasuj)[1] is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who is the representative of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province[2][3] and likewise the Imam of Friday Prayer in the city of Yasuj[4] who has been recently appointed by the decree of Iran's supreme leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei at the mentioned position(s).

[5][6][7] Seyyed Nasir Hosseini[8] was born in 1967 in Yasuj (Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province) in a religious Shia Persian family.

He passed his elementary education in Yasuj, and went to the Hawzah of "Hazrat Wali-asr" in his city --in 1983.

Later on, Hosseini went to Shiraz (to Hawzah AqaBabaKhan), and studied his religious education there; likewise, he taught there as a teacher.

[10] Hosseini immigrated to Qom Seminary after the war; and passed his seminary lessons (at the lessons of Rasael, Makasib, Kharij-Fiqh and Osul [principles]); and had teachers among: Naser Makarem Shirazi, Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat, Hossein Waheed Khorasani, Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, Karimi Jahromi and Ostadi.