Biography

He was born in 1931 in the village of (Ken) north-west Tehran. Having finished

the primary school in 1945, he entered Sepahsalar school (or recently called

"Shahid Mutahhari"), then Lurzadeh school (whose headmaster was Mr. Burhan),

where he studied for three years.

When he became 18 years old, and to continue his study, he migrated to Qom 

and began studying the high level stage and benefitted from the knowledge of

Ayatollah Mujahidi, shaykh Abdul Jawad Jabal`amili, Sultani Tabataba'i, Najafi 

Mar`ashi, and shahid Sadouqi. He also learned Philosophy and rational sciences

from Ayatollah Murtadha Mutahhari.

After that he began to study the Kharij stage on Fiqh and Usoul with Ayatollah

Uzma Boroujerdi (for five years), and Ayatollah Imam Khomeini (for nine years).

He returned to Tehran in 1961 after Ayatollah Boroujerdi's death and began to

teach in the Hawzah of Marwi.

Ayatollah Keni is one of the founders of Imam Sadiq(a.s.) University. Today he

is the head of the said university although he is teaching in the hawzah of

Marwi.