Please join us on Saturday, February 4, 2023, at 7:00 PM via Zoom to celebrate Imam Ali’s (AS) birthday. The guest speakers for this event are Dr. Hamid Mavani (English), “Religious Extremism and Mutual Coexistence”, and Dr. Hassan Masoud (Farsi), ”دغدغه زمان”. Please click here to join the Zoom Meeting.

Biographies

Dr. Hamid Mavani is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School / Claremont School of Theology in California. 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).

Dr. Hassan Masoud teaches philosophy and logic at the University of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Hassan Masoud has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Alberta, Canada, specializing in logic and theory of knowledge. He also has a MA in Logic from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, Iran, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran