Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom

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Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom جامعهٔ مدرسین حوزهٔ علمیهٔ قم
Leader	Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
Founded	1961/3
Headquarters	Qom
Ideology	Ja'fari jurisprudence Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists Islamism
Political position	Right-wing
Religion	Shia Islam
National affiliation	Principlists
Part of	The Two Societies
5th Assembly of Experts[1]	64 / 88 (73%)
Website
jameehmodarresin.org
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The Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom (Persian: جامعهٔ مدرسین حوزهٔ علمیهٔ قم, romanized: jâme'e madrasin howze 'ilmiah Qom) is an Iranian group founded in 1961/3^[2] by the leading Muslim clerics of Qom. Established by the students of Ayatollah Khomeini after his exile to Iraq, it was formed in order to organize political activities of Khomeini's followers and promote his revolutionary interpretation of Islam, such as the idea of Islamic government. Since the 1979 revolution, it has largely become the body to keep the regime's registrar of who counts as a grand ayatollah, an ayatollah and a hojjat ul Islam. It has a head who is appointed by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic. It currently heads the Supreme Council of Qom Hawzas, and proposes judges to the judiciary system. The body gained international prominence when it announced in 1981 that Ayatollah Shariatmadari was no longer a source of emulation (marja'). It has demoted a number of clerics over the last three decades.^[3] A recent case was that of Ayatollah Yousef Saanei, who for his solidarity with the green movement was demoted from marja' to hojatoleslam. The society also includes Ayatollah Sistani on its list.