Please join us on Saturday, February 26th at 7:00 PM (PST) to celebrate Eid al-Mab’ath, the anniversary of the day that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) received the first revelations from God.
The guest speakers for the event are Dr. Yaser Mirdamadi (Farsi) and Dr. Hamid Mavani (English) and the title of his talk is “Mab’ath: The Divine Word Enters the World.”
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Yaser Mirdamadi Bio
Dr. Yaser Mirdamadi is a researcher at the University of Edinborough, Scotland. In 2019, he received Ph.D. in Islamic and Middle East Studies from the University of Edinborough. He has a MA in Muslim Cultures from Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations (AKU-ISMC) London, UK, and a MA in Islamic Theology Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran.
Also, Dr. Mirdamadi completed a Level 3 Diploma (equivalent to a Master’s degree) in Classical Islamic studies from Hawza Ilmiyya (Islamic Seminary), Mashhad, Iran.
Hamid Mavani Bio
Dr. Hamid Mavani is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School/Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS). 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).
