Please join us on Saturday, September 25, 2021, at 7:30 PM to commemorate the Arabeen of Imam Husayn (as). Arba'een or "the fortieth day" is a Shia Muslim religious observance that occurs forty days after Ashura.
The program includes lectures by Dr. Hamid Mavani (English) titled “Contradictory Visions of an Ethical Society: Imam Husayn vs. Taliban” and Dr. Akhlaq (Farsi) titled
امام حسين و مصيبت بزرگ ميانمايگي عالمان
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Hamid Mavani Bio
Dr. Hamid Mavani is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School / Claremont School of Theology His expertise in Islamic Studies stems from academic training at universities and specialized theological training at the traditional seminaries in the Muslim world. His primary interests include Islamic legal theory, women and Shi‘i law, Islamic theology and political thought, Islam and secularity, intra-Muslim discourse, and environmental ethics. He is the author of a book published by Routledge in June 2013 titled, Religious Authority and Political Thought in Twelver Shi‘ism: From Ali to Post-Khomeini and is co-author with Dr. Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi on a work in progress on Islamic legal theory, to be published by IIIT. Dr. Mavani’s scholarship also includes translations of Islamic texts from Arabic and Persian into English. In this regard, he finished translating from Persian a ground-breaking work by Ayatollah Mohsen Kadivar on Islam, apostasy, and blasphemy (under contract with the Edinburgh University Press).
Sayed Hassan Akhlaq Bio
Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini, "Akhlaq," specializes in philosophy and religion. He is involved in comparative studies, dialogue among civilizations, and inter and intra-faith dialogue. For the past decade, he wrote books, papers, and gave lectures and speeches worldwide, including in the U.S., United Arab Emirates, Iran, Afghanistan, South Korea, Greece, Russia, and the United Kingdom. In addition, he gives scholarly lectures for religious communities. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, Iran. He completed his Islamic theological studies (Hawzeh Elmieh) in Mashhad. Currently, Dr. Akhlaq teaches at Marymount University, Washington, D.C.
