Mohammad Alavi Gorgani

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Ali Hosseini Alavi Gorgani (; March 1940 – 15 March 2022) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a marja'.

He was born in a religious family in Najaf, Iraq. He rose to a leading scholar in Najaf, and moved to Qom after the fall of Pahlavi Iran in 1979. Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani studied under the late Ayatollah Bourujerdi, Ayatollah Khomeni, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Araki, and Ayatollah Golpaygani.

Gorgani had voiced support for Palestine, stating that:

Furthermore, he had ruled that Baháʼís are infidels and that "associating with them is reprehensible and disgusting." Gorgani had also stated that publishing photographs of unveiled women is equivalent to prostitution.

Reportedly, he had claimed that apartment buildings were a British plot designed to spread moral corruption by encouraging women to leave the home, in addition to obscuring the view of shrines in the cities of Mashhad and Qom.

Ayatollah Gorgani had authored several books and treatises on various topics in Islamic science.

Alavi Gorgani died on 15 March 2022, in Qom. He was buried in the Masjed-e Bala Sar (مسجد بالاسر), which is part of the greater Fatima Masumeh Shrine.