He settled in Qom where he attended the classes of Grand Ayatollah Borudjerdi, the spiritual director of the Shiites, as well as Ayatollah Khomeini’s. He then left for Najaf in 1957 but did not stay there for long as his father sought to bring him back to Iran. He began his religious studies in Machad under the direction of two well-known Ayatollahs, Sheikh Hashem Qazvini and Ayatollah Milani. Khamenei's family thus acquired its religious legitimacy through its roots in the city of Najaf (another Shia holy city in Iraq, next to Qom and to a lesser extent Machad in Iran), its links to an Ulama family (from Tafrech to 220 km southwest of Tehran and Khoi in Azerbaijan, Turkish-speaking province of Iran), and through its three family members (the future Supreme Leader and two of his brothers) having had undertaken ecclesiastical studies, thus perpetuating the family tradition. Khamenei's ancestor was Seyed Hossein Tafrechi, whose lineage is said to date back to the fourth Shia Imam Ali Zeyn-ol-Abedin, giving the family a traditional legitimacy as a sign of belonging to the Prophet's family, male family members joining the Shia clergy would wear a black turban. Second son of eight children, two of his brothers are also clerics. His father, Seyed Javad Khamenei, was born in Najaf, a holy city in Iraq, while his mother Khadijeh Mirdamadi, herself, came from a religious family. He was born to an Azeri father (the Iranian Turkish-speaking minority), within a religious family of clerics. Ayatollah Khamenei was born in 1939 in Mashad, in Northeastern Iran, the city where the tomb of Imam Reza is located, the eighth Shia Imam.
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