| Honorific-Prefix: | Ayatollah Sheikh | ||||||||||
| Native Name: | آیت الله شیخ احمد محسنی گرکانی | ||||||||||
| Ahmad Mohseni Garakani | |||||||||||
| Caption: | Ayatollah Garakani giving a lecture in 2015 | ||||||||||
| Office1: | Chief of the Supreme Court of Iran | ||||||||||
| Term Start1: | 11 September 2009 | ||||||||||
| Term End1: | 2 September 2014 | ||||||||||
| Successor1: | Hossein Karimi | ||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Hossein Mofid | ||||||||||
| Appointer1: | Sadeq Larijani | ||||||||||
| Predecessor2: | Abolfazl Khonsari | ||||||||||
| Constituency2: | Markazi Province | ||||||||||
| Term Start2: | 23 October 1998 | ||||||||||
| Term End2: | 20 May 2024 | ||||||||||
| Successor3: | Abdolhossein Sabzevari | ||||||||||
| Term Start3: | 24 September 1979 | ||||||||||
| Term End3: | 1982 | ||||||||||
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Sheikh Ahmad Mohseni Garakani, (born 1926) is an Iranian Ayatollah. He was the Imam of Friday Prayer in Tuyserkan and the Chief of the Supreme Court of Iran, as well as representing the people of Markazi province in the Assembly of Experts from 1998 to 2024.[1] [2] [3]
Ahmad Garakani was born on 1926 in a village called Garakan in Markazi province. His father, Ali Asghar was a farmer, so their family was involved around agriculture.[4] After attending primary school, he pursued his Islamic education by travelling to Qom in 1946 to attend the Qom Seminary. He attended classes from many esteemed Shia scholars such as Hossein Borujerdi, Ruhollah Khomeini, and Mohaghegh. He travelled to Najaf and attended the Hawza Najaf for around a year. While in Najaf, he was taught by Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Muhsin al-Hakim and others.[5] After the 1979 Iranian revolution, he was appointed as the prayer leader in Tuyserkan by Khomeini.[6] He spent several years as a judge in the Supreme Court, before being elected as Chief of Supreme Court by Sadeq Larijani in September 2009.[7]
Here are some of Ayatollah Garkani's teachers on his journey to becoming an Ayatollah.[8]
Ayatollah Garakani has published many works in Iran, here are some of them.