Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani, born in 1918 in Golpayegan, was a Shi'a marja' and a prominent student of Ayatollah Borujerdi. He studied in Golpayegan, Qom, and Najaf and taught and conducted research in jurisprudence, Islamic legal theory, theology, hadith, and rijal. He served as a member of the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution and the Guardian Council. He authored more than eighty works, including the well-known Selected Narrations Concerning the Twelfth Imam. He died in 2022.
