

In 1957 with the intention of visiting the majestic holy places he left for Najaf. In the fields of Logic and philosophy Ayatullah Khamenei began his studies of the Manzumah of Sabziwari under the late Ayatullah Mirza Jawad Aqah Tehrani and later he completed that book under the late Sheikh Ridha Aysi.Īt the age of eighteen, Ayatullah Khamenei began studying the highest level, Darsi Kharij, of jurisprudence and its principles under the late Grand Marja` Ayatullah al-Uzma Milani in Mashhad. Moreover, his father the late Sayyid Jawad played an important role in the progress of his son. In this manner he finished the intermediate level of studies in an unprecedented and zealous fashion within five and a half years.

He studied Rasa'el and Makasib with the late hajj Sheikh Hashim Qazwini and the remaining intermediate level studies jurisprudence and its principles (fiqh and usul) with his father. Later he studied Sharai' al-Islam and Sharh Lum'ah with his father, and a part of the second book with the late Aqah Mirza Mudarris Yazdi. He also studied the book Mu'alim while attending those schools. "The factor which inspired me to choose the enlightened path of a religious scholar was my father my mother also encouraged me, as she was very fond of the idea."Īyatullah Khamenei studied books such as Jame'al-Muqaddamaat, Suyuti, and Mughni in the Sulayman Khan Madrasah and the Nawwab Madrasah in addition to his father's supervision. Reflecting upon his reason for taking this path, the path of a religious scholar, Ayatullah Khamenei said: Later, after high school, he transferred to seminary studies and was taught Arabic grammar and other primary seminary studies by his father and other religious scholars of the time. During Sayed Ali Khamenei's time in high school he studied the book Jam e'al-Muqaddamaat, where upon he began his studies in Arabic grammar.
