Mansour Leghaei

Dr Sheikh Mansour Leghaei is the founder and a director of the Imam Husain Islamic Centre and the School of Islamic Theology in Earlwood, Australia, serving as the imam from 19972010. He previously served in Nigeria, where in 1992 he opened an Education Centre called Ahul Bayt.

Leghaei was born in Abadan, Iran, to a religious Shia family. He earned a PhD in Islamic Theosophy from the University of Qom, where he studied under a number of renowned scholars including, the Grand Ayatollah Hossein Vahid Khorasani, Grand Ayatollah Mousa Shubairi Zanjani, Ayatollah Hassan Hasanzadeh Amoli, Ayatollah Abdollah JavadiAmoli, Ayatollah MohammadTaqi MesbahYazdi, Sheik Mohammad Bahjat, and the late Ayatollah BahrolOloom Mirdamadi.

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