Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi

Ayatollah Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi , born in 1935, in Hoseynabad, Yazd, is a Shia cleric and member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also one of the representatives of the city of Yazd in the first and the second terms of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Iran.

Education At the age of five, Wafi began to learn the Quran and then went to school and later to high school. Afterward, he went to the seminary in Yazd and completed the preliminary courses as well as some courses of "Sath" (meaning level or surface). In 1957, he went to Qom to further his studies at "Sath". Then he went to Qom seminary to study Kharij courses.

Professors Abolghasem Wafi met with many different teachers during his academic years including:

Sheikh Ali Panah Ishtihardi Naser Makarem Shirazi Hossein Noori Hamedani Tabatabai Soltani Hussein-Ali Montazeri Reza Sadr Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi Morteza Haeri Yazdi Ruhollah Khomeini Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad