Abdollah Javadi Amoli (b. 1352/1933) is a Shiite philosopher, jurist, exegete of the Qur'an, a professor of the Islamic Seminary of Qom, and a Shiite marja'. He was a student of Imam Khomeini and Allama Tabataba'i and has taught Islamic philosophy, mysticism, jurisprudence, and Quranic exegesis at Islamic seminaries of Qom and Tehran for about sixty years. He has written many books, including his exegesis of the Qur'an, Tasnim, and his exposition of al-Asfar al-arba'a, Rahiq makhtum. After the Islamic Revolution, Jawadi Amuli undertook many official positions, such as membership in the Higher Judicial Council, Assembly of Experts for Constitution, Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, and Assembly of Experts of Leadership. In the 1990s and 2000s, he was also an Imam of Friday Prayers in Qom. In 1989, he went to the former Soviet Union to deliver Imam Khomeini's message to Gorbachev, the then-leader of the Soviet Union. In philosophy, Jawadi Amuli is a follower of the school of the Transcendent Wisdom. He believes in religious sciences, both for humanities and empirical sciences. Some of his rare fatwas include the permissibility of a female jurist being followed by female followers, the permissibility of sex reassignment surgeries, and the purity of the People of the Book.