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Ahmad Marvi (Persian: احمد مروی) (born: 1958, Mashhad) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who has recently been appointed as the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi (Persian: آستان قدس رضوی) by the decree of the supreme leader of Iran, Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Before that, he was in charge of a department at Iranian supreme leader office, responsible for contacts and communications with religious seminaries; and likewise the chief of "Estehlal Headquarters" of the "supreme leader office".
Ahmad Marvi has educated at seminary and university in high levels of fiqh/principles, and Ph.D. in "theology and Islamic education"; and had teachers such as: Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Abolghasem Khazali, Taheri KhoramAbbadi, Hossein Waheed Khorasani and Mojtaba Tehrani. Marvi who is also known as "Hujjatul-Islam Marvi"replaced Ebrahim Raisi as the new chief custodian and trustee of the Astan Quds Razavi, (which is a charitable organization holding trusteeship of "Imam Reza shrine" in Mashhad) by the order of Ali Khamenei, on 30 March 2019.
