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Hujjatul Islam-wal-Muslimin [[Ali Nazari Munfarid]] was born in 1947 in the holy City of Qum, located 150 km, south of Tehran. Both of his parents belonged to religious and scholarly families, his father being an eloquent preacher thus he spent his childhood years in a pure spiritual environment. Having finished his primary education, with the motivation and encouragement of his parents, he joined the famous Religious Learning Center of Qum (Howzehilmiyeh), and after completing preliminary courses in literature as well some advance level courses, was able to obtain his High School Diploma from Dar al-Funoon School of Tehran. In order to pursue higher religious education, he went to Iraq in 1966, and joined the prestigious Religious Learning Center of Najaf al-Ashraf, where he stayed for two years and acquired religious learning under the tutorship of famous learned scholars of that period. Having completed his curriculum at Najaf al-Ashraf, he returned again to the Religious Learning Center of Qum, where he continued his higher religious learning under the able guidance of late Ayatollahs Golpaygani, and Hashim Amuli. Simultaneously, he first started teaching elementary religious courses, literature, and logic and later on advance courses of jurisprudence and basic principles.