Kazem al-Haeri

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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Kadhim al-Haeri آية الله العظمى السيد كاظم الحائري
Grand Ayatollah Kadhim Haeri
Title	Grand Ayatollah
Personal
Born	1938 (age 85–86) Karbala, Kingdom of Iraq
Religion	Usuli Twelver Shia Islam
Senior posting
Based in	Qom, Iran
Website	1st official website 2nd official website

Grand Ayatollah Kadhim Husayni al-Haeri (Arabic: كاظم الحسيني الحائري) (born 1938) is a prominent Twelver Shi'a Marja.^[1][2][3] He has studied in seminars of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Sadeq al-Sadr.^[4] Haeri was born in Karbala, Iraq. He was a top leader of the Al-Da'wa Party in Iraq. His involvement in the party led to his exile in the 1970s, later he moved to Iran, where he remains to this day in the city of Qom.^[5]