Ali Akbar Rashad
Ali Akbar Rashad | |
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Born | 1955 (age 68–69)[1] |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Islamic philosophy |
School | Islamic jurisprudence |
Main interests | Philosophy of religion,Islamic theology |
Notable ideas | Ibtina theory Logic of understanding religion |
Ali Akbar Rashad(born 1955) is an Iranian philosopher and Islamic scholar who pioneered theIbtina Theory,a theory for explaining the process and mechanism of "religious knowledge" formation.[2]
He is currently a professor at theIslamic Research Institute for Culture and Thoughtas well as a member of theSupreme Cultural Revolution Council(SCRC). He is also the founder and chair of Imam Reza Islamic seminary. The has presented articles and delivered speeches at conferences and scientific and philosophical conventions and conferences in different countries includingGermany,the United States,theUnited Arab Emirates,England,Bosnia,Pakistan,Turkey,Russia,Sudan,Syria,Saudi Arabia,France,India,andGreeceamong others.
Education
[edit]Ali Akbar Rashad is a graduate of Tehran and QomIslamic seminaries;he completed his introductory and first grade ofIslamic seminaryeducation, in Tehran between 1967 and 1970. Then, he went to Qom to further his education in 1970, and was admitted to Grand Ayatollah Golpayegani's Islamic Seminary school, which was considered the first scheduled educational center conducted on the new seminary methodology. He completed the second grade in this seminary school. He also took Ayatollah Shabzendehdar Shirazi's exegesis and Islamic doctrine lessons, and religions (Judaism,Christianity,Baháʼí Faithand the secretary ofWahhabism,) lessons presented by Abd-ol-Gha'em Shooshtari during the very same period.[3]
Academic activities
[edit]Rashad has been teaching higher levels of principles of jurisprudence,philosophy of religion,philosophyandmysticismin the "Islamic seminary of Tehran" as well as the philosophy of religion and discourse and logic of Understanding Religion atuniversity of Tehrananduniversity of Mashhadfor the past thirty years.
In the past ten years, IICT has compiled, or has been compiling, four different encyclopedias under professor Rashad's supervision:
- The Encyclopedia of Imam Ali(published in 13 volumes)
- The Encyclopedia of Qur'an (six out of twenty five volumes completed)
- The Encyclopedia of the Holy Prophet's Conduct (fifteen volumes; in press).
- The Encyclopedia of Fatimah Culture (six volumes).
Translated works
[edit]Title | Language | Format |
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Philosophy of Religion | Arabic | Book |
Sacred Democracy | Arabic | Book |
Philosophy of religion | English | Book |
Sacred Democracy | English | Book |
Philosophy of religion | Malay | Book |
Violence and Tolerance | French | Book |
Sacred Democracy | Spanish | Book |
Philosophy of Religion | Azeri | Book |
A Critique on John Hick's Religious Pluralism | English | Book |
The Necessity of the Provision of Philosophy of Religion, Logic of Exploring Religion, etc. | English | Article |
The Expanse of the Functionality and Practicability of Reason in Intellection and Actualization of Religion | English | Article |
Sense Devoid of Sense | English | Article |
Philosophy of Religious Insight | English | Article |
Is Rumi a Religious Pluralist? | English | Article |
Religion and Democracy | Arabic | Article |
Investigating tradition | Arabic | Article |
The Expanse of the Functionality and Practicability of Reason in Intellection and Actualization of Religion | Arabic | Article |
Principles of Tolerance | Arabic | Article |
Philosophy of Principles | Arabic | Article |
Ibtina Theory(1) | Arabic | Article |
Ibtina Theory (2) | Arabic | Article |
References
[edit]- ^"Home".en.iict.ac.ir.
- ^"Prof. Dr. Ali Akba Rashadi: CV"(PDF).En.iict.ac.ir. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2016-03-04.Retrieved2015-05-29.
- ^His official website in Persian:http://rashad.iict.ac.ir
- 20th-century Iranian philosophers
- Islamic philosophers
- Philosophers of religion
- Iranian ayatollahs
- 21st-century Muslim scholars of Islam
- 20th-century Islamic religious leaders
- 21st-century Iranian philosophers
- 21st-century Islamic religious leaders
- Academic staff of the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought
- Iran's Book of the Year Awards recipients
- 1955 births
- Living people