Ahmad Marvi

Ahmad Marvi is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric, former general and former police officer who was appointed the custodian of Astan [Quds Razavi] by the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei.
Before that, he was in charge of a department at the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran responsible for contacts and communications with religious seminaries; and likewise the chief of "Estehlal Headquarters" of the "supreme leader office".
Marvi has studied fiqh/principles, and has a Ph.D. in "theology and Islamic education"; his teachers included Abolghasem Khazali, Hossein Waheed Khorasani and Mojtaba Tehrani. Marvi who is also known as "Hojjatol-Eslam Marvi" replaced Ebrahim Raisi as the new chief custodian and trustee of the Astan Quds Razavi, by order of Khamenei, on 30 March 2019.