Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi

Grand Ayatollah Hajj Sheikh
Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi
Grand Ayatollah Hajj Sheikh Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi
عبدالکریم حائری یزدی
	The founder of an important Islamic seminary (hawza) in Qom, Iran
Personal life
Born	1859; Meybod, Yazd province, Sublime State of Iran
Died	30 January 1937 (aged 77–78)
Resting place	Fatima Masumeh Shrine, Qom
Children	3, including Morteza Haeri Yazdi and Mehdi Haeri Yazdi
Occupation	Marja' and scholar
Religious life
Religion	Shia Islam
Sect	Usuli Twelver
Senior posting
Post	Founder and patron, Qom Seminary
Period in office	1900–1937
	Students Ayatollah Borqei, Ruhollah Khomeini, Abolhasan Rafii Qazvini, Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani, Mohammad Ali Araki, Sayeed Shahabuddin Marashi Najafi, Jafar Eshraghi, Sayeed Ahmad Zanjan, Ayatollah Haj Mirza Khalil Kamareyi, Mohammad Mohaghegh Damad, Shamseddin Mataji Kojouri, Mirza Hashem Amoli;

Grand Ayatollah Hajj Sheikh Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi (Persian: عبدالکریم حائری یزدی; Arabic: عبد الكريم الحائري اليزدي ALA-LC: ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Ḥāʼirī al-Yazdī; 1859 – 30 January 1937) was an Iranian Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and marja. He was the founder of an important Islamic seminary (hawza) in Qom, Iran.

Among his students was Ruhollah Khomeini. Haeri's granddaughter, Masoumeh Haeri Yazdi, married Mostafa Khomeini, the eldest son of Ruhollah Khomeini.