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Qom Seminary
Islamic seminary in Qom, Iran / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Qom Seminary (Persian: حوزه علمیه قم) is the largest Islamic seminary (hawza) in Iran, established in 1922 by Grand Ayatollah Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi in Qom.[1] It trains Usuli scholars.
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