Professor Mohsen Kadivar Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law
ILSP Newsletter: "In early June, Professor Mohsen Kadivar arrived at ILSP, where he will be in residence as a Visiting Scholar through September. A distinguished scholar and cleric in his native Iran, his two main areas of expertise are Islamic theology and philosophy, and political and legal thought in Islam. Originally trained as an electrical engineer, Professor Kadivar in 1980 shifted to religious education at Shiraz Seminary and in 1981 went to Qom to study, obtaining the degree of ijtihad in 1997, and his Ph.D. in 1999 from Tarbiat Modares University, where he is currently a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy. The author of 12 books and many more articles, he has taught as well in Imam Sadegh University, Mofid University, and Shahid Beheshti University.
A prominent dissident, Professor Kadivar was first arrested in May 1978 in the uprising that led to the overthrow of the Shah. He has continued in his forthright opinions, speaking out against the suppression of dissent and against absolutism. He was imprisoned in 1999, spending 18 months in Tehran’s Evin Prison, because of statements critical of the Islamic Republic and a speech in Isfahan’s Mosque arguing that acts of terrorism are condemned in the eyes of the Islamic faith and Shi‘i law. He is currently President of the Iranian Association in Support of Freedom of the Press.
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