Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Zanjani

Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Zanjani (Persian: سید محمد حسینی زنجانی‎‎) (born 1947 - Qom), is an Iranian Shia cleric.

Zanjani was born in 1947. His father Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani studied under Muhammad Hujjat Kuh-Kamari and Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi in jurisprudence and Ruhollah Khomeini and Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i in philosophy.

Due to his revolutionary struggle against the Pahlavi regime in 1973 he was exiled until his death. His grandfather Mirza Mahmoud Hosseini Zanjani studied under Mirza Naini, aqa Zia Iraqi, Sheikh al-Isfahani, Mohammed Kazem Yazdi and Mohammad Esfahani Qa'ravi), respectively.

His family lineage is the fourth Imam Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, the Shia. Hosseini Zanjani has three sons and a daughter.

At an early age his father returned and he took basic seminary courses. In 1964 he went to Qom and studied under Morteza Bani Fazl and Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi. After leaving Qom, he studied under GH Alam al-Hoda Sayed Ibrahim.

In recent years, various proposals for the adoption of Zanjan Friday prayer were rejected, preferring regional solutions.

After the death of Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani and the mass appeal of Mashhad seminary scholars, a group of his followers migrated to the holy city of Mashhad.

Zanjan published his dissertation in 2013. As of 2016 he had published four editions. His treatise is the only source of emulation based in Mashhad.