Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Esmaeelpoor Ghomsheiy (Persian: محمد علي اسماعيلپور قمشهاي) (born 1940) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He has studied in seminaries of Qum, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani. Death Ayatollah Esmailpour died on 11 August 2018. See also List of Maraji Notes External links Biography in Persian Iranian grand ayatollahs Iranian Islamists Shia Islamists 1940 births 2018 deaths