1. Mohsen Kadivar is a mujtahid, Islamic theologian, philosopher, writer, leading intellectual reformist, and research professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University.
23 Facts About Mohsen Kadivar
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Mohsen Kadivar has served time in prison in Iran for his political activism and beliefs.
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Mohsen Kadivar became politically active as a student and was arrested by the Shah's police in May 1978 for his political activities.
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Mohsen Kadivar moved to Qom in 1981 to pursue his studies in fiqh and philosophy.
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Mohsen Kadivar started his career as a teacher teaching fiqh and Islamic philosophy at Qom Seminary for fourteen years.
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Mohsen Kadivar began teaching Islamic philosophy and theology at Imam Sadegh University, Mofid University, Shahid Beheshti University, and Tarbiat Modarres University for seven years.
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Mohsen Kadivar started as an assistant professor of philosophy at Tarbiat Modarres University in 2000.
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In 2007 political pressures forced Mohsen Kadivar to leave his teaching appointment for a position at the Research Center of the Iranian Institute of Philosophy.
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Mohsen Kadivar was visiting scholar at the Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School in 2002, visiting professor of Islamic studies at the University of Virginia, and at Duke University.
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Mohsen Kadivar held the fall 2014 Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Mohsen Kadivar is currently a research professor of Islamic Studies in the department of religious studies at Duke University.
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Mohsen Kadivar married Zahra Roodi in 1981 and has four children.
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Mohsen Kadivar is a prominent critic of the Islamic Republic system in Iran, and wrote a detailed criticism of Ayatollah Khomeini's theory of Islamic government as rule by Shia clerics, Government by Mandate.
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Mohsen Kadivar was unrepentant on his release and is currently active in the various reform movements of Iran.
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Mohsen Kadivar's publications including books, articles, and interviews were banned in Iran since 2009, and he was fired from his job in 2011.
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Mohsen Kadivar is a prolific author and has published thirteen books by 2009, and eleven books since 2009, when his publication was banned in Iran.
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Mohsen Kadivar has been writing extensively in various Iranian journals and has over 200 articles to his name.
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Mohsen Kadivar considers this 432-page opus the heart of his trilogy and the most scholarly book he has written.
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Mohsen Kadivar, thus determines the age of the concept as less than two centuries, a mere blinking of an eye compared to the history of Shiite jurisprudence.
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The third volume of Mohsen Kadivar's trilogy is entitled: Government by Appointment.
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The Perspective of Islam as an End in Itself is the third approach that Mohsen Kadivar argues has four advantages.
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Mohsen Kadivar finds that Islam as an end in itself is a perfect perspective for the modern world.
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Mohsen Kadivar denounced the ruling of execution openly and wrote a book on this issue.