Abdul Karim Haeri Yazdi

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Grand Ayatollah Hajj Shaykh Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi (Persian: عبدالكريم حائري يزدي; Arabic: عبد الكريم الحائري اليزدي; translit: ‘Abd al-Karī̄m al-Ḥa’irī̄ al-Yazdī̄) (1859January 30, 1937) was a Shia Muslim cleric and marja. He founded the important Islamic seminary (hawza) of Qom, Iran. Among his students was Ruhollah Khomeini.