Imam Mahdi's Birthday and ICCNC’s 29th Anniversary Celebration - Saturday, February 15, 2025

Join us for a joyous celebration of Imam Mahdi's (AS) Birthday and the ICCNC's 29th Anniversary on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 6:00 PM at ICCNC. 

The program includes prayer, dinner, a lecture by guest speaker Dr. Hamid Mavani titled "Rediscovering Our Common Humanity: Role of the Messiah (al-Mahdi) and Jesus Christ”, review of the last year’s accomplishments, volunteers appreciation, and music. 

We look forward to sharing this special occasion with you!

Tickets: General $10, Children 5 yrs and under are free. Please register and purchase your tickets by Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.

For more information, please contact us at info@iccnc.org or 510-832-7600.

Hamid Mavani is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Bayan Islamic Graduate School. His expertise in Islamic Studies stems from both academic training at Universities as well as specialized theological training at the traditional seminaries in the Muslim world. His primary fields of interest 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 of Islamic Legal Methodology: A New Perspective on Uşŭl al-Fiqh, 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 titled, Blasphemy and Apostasy in Islam: Debates in Shi’a Jurisprudence, published by Edinburgh University Press.