Jamileh Alamolhoda

Jamileh-Sadat Alamolhoda (Persian: جمیله‌سادات علم‌الهدی; born 1965), commonly known as Jamileh Alamolhoda (Persian: جمیله علم‌الهدی), is an Iranian writer and scholar. She was married to Ebrahim Raisi, who was the President of Iran, from 1983 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024.

Jamileh Alamolhoda
جمیله علم‌الهدی
Alamolhoda in 2019
Spouse of the President of Iran
In role 3 August 2021 – 19 May 2024
President	Ebrahim Raisi
Preceded by	Sahebeh Rouhani
Succeeded by	Vacant
Personal details
Born	Jamileh-Sadat Alamolhoda c. 1965 (age 59–60) Mashhad, Imperial State of Iran
Spouse	Ebrahim Raisi ​ ​ (m. 1983; died 2024)​
Children	2
Parents	Ahmad Alamolhoda Sakineh Rikhtegarzadeh
Relatives	Abdol Javad Alamolhoda (uncle)
Occupation	Writer, scholar, lecturer

Career and activities

Alamolhoda received her doctorate in the field of philosophy of education from Tarbiat Modares University in 2001. She became a member of the faculty of the Department of Leadership and Educational Development of the School of Educational Sciences and Psychology of Shahid Beheshti University and is now an associate professor. She teaches courses such as philosophy of higher education, anthropology in Islam, teaching methods, theoretical foundations of educational management, philosophical schools and educational views in the doctoral course of Shahid Beheshti University.^[1]

Alamolhoda was the director of the Humanities Research Institute. She founded the Institute of Fundamental Studies of Science and Technology of Shahid Beheshti University in 2013 and is its director. This research institute has the task of presenting science and technology policy models based on understanding and evaluating the epistemological and social aspects of science and technology.^[2] In March 2020, she was appointed as the secretary of the "Council for the Transformation and Renovation of the Educational System of the Country" by the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution.^[3]

Alamolhoda was appointed member of the executive board for faculty recruitment at Tehran University in May 2023.^[4]

Personal life

Alamolhoda is the eldest daughter of Ahmad Alamolhoda, the Friday prayer leader in Mashhad and a member of the Assembly of Experts.^[5] In 1983 at the age of 18, she married Ebrahim Raisi.^[6] The couple had two daughters, one of whom has a PhD in sociology from the University of Tehran and the other a BSc in physics from Sharif University of Technology.^[7]