Abu Nasr Muhammad Al-Farabi, , known in the West as Alpharabius; was a renowned early Islamic philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. He was also a scientist, cosmologist, mathematician, music theorist and physician.
Abdulaziz Sachedina is Professor and International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
The National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI) or National Library of the Islamic Republic of Iran is located in Tehran, Iran, with twelve branches across the country. The NLAI is an educational, research, scientific, and service institute authorized by the Islamic Consultative Assembly. Its president is appointed by the President of Iran. The NLAI is the largest library in the Middle East and includes more than fifteen-million items in its collections.
Mir Damad, known also as Mir Mohammad Baqer Esterabadi, or Asterabadi, was a Twelver Shia Iranian philosopher in the Neoplatonizing Islamic Peripatetic traditions of Avicenna. He also was a Suhrawardi, a scholar of the traditional Islamic sciences, and foremost figure of the cultural renaissance of Iran undertaken under the Safavid dynasty. He was also the central founder of the School of Isfahan, noted by his students and admirers as the Third Teacher after Aristotle and al-Farabi.
Mir Sayyid Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani was a mystic (Sufi) who gave name to the Noorbakshia school of Islam. He wrote al Fiqh al-Ahwat and Kitab al-Aetiqadia.
Seyed Reza Hosseini Nassab is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja, currently residing in Canada. He was the President and Imam of the Islamic Centre in Hamburg, Germany, and since 2003 he has served as the President of Shia Islam Federation in Canada.
Ahmad Vaezi is an Iranian philosopher, scholar and clergyman. He is now the chief of Islamic propagation office of Qom.
Democracy or DemoCrazy is a political satire novel wrote by Seyyed Mahdi Shojaee in Persian and translated to English by Caroline Croskery. Democracy or DemoCrazy was published by Candle and Fog Publishing in 2014. This book also published by Createspace Publishing in 2015.
Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy (ISCA) is a scientific and research academy for issues in Islamic sciences. It is affiliated to the Islamic Propagation Office of Qom seminary. This academy together with Baqir al-'Ulum University form research and education departments of the Islamic Propagation Office of the seminary. Najaf Lakzaee, lecturer of political studies and the research deputy of the Islamic Propagation Office of Qom seminary, is the president of the Academy.
Nadia Maftouni is an Iranian academic, philosophical author and artist. She is best known as a leading Researcher on Farabian, Avicennian and Suhrawardian philosophy with her modern reading of their works. She is also an established researcher in Jurisprudence and Islamic History. She is an associate professor at University of Tehran, where she is an alumna and a member of the department of Philosophy and Islamic Theology. She is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School and she is on the board of History of Philosophy Quarterly. She is also famous for proposing to Iranian artist Hossein Nuri when he was already in a wheelchair.
Niloufar Bayani is an Iranian wildlife conservation biology researcher and activist. She was convicted in 2019 of espionage by Iranian authorities in a closed-door trial in Iran, and received a 10-year prison sentence.
Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought is an Iranian Research institute whose main purpose is theorizing on religious thought and enhancing the epistemological bases of the Islamic Revolution. The institute has departments of philosophy, mysticism, and ethics, as well as Western Studies and Islamic economy among others.
Mahmoud Hekmatnia is an Iranian legal scholar and professor of law at the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought. He is known for his works on intellectual property. His book titled Principles of Intellectual Property won the Farabi Award and Howzeh Book of the Year Award.
Seyed Hossein Mir-Moezi is an Iranian cleric and economist and associate professor of Islamic economics at the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought. He is known for his works on Islamic economics.
Seyed Kazem Seyed Bagheri is an Iranian political scientist and associate professor of politics at the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought. His book titled Shia's Political Fiqh won the Farabi Award and Howzeh Book of the Year Award.
Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Hassan Ghadrdan Gharamaleki is an Iranian philosopher and professor of Kalam at the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought. His books titled God and the Problem of Evil and Koran and Pluralism won the Howzeh Book of the Year Award.
Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism is a book-length study of Ruzbihan Baqli by Carl W. Ernst. The book was awarded the Farabi Award.
Seyed Mahdi Hosseini Rohani Persian: سید مهدی حسینی روحانی was an Iranian Ayatollah born in Qom. He served in the First, Second, and Third terms of the Assembly of Experts.
Sheikh Zaynolabideen Ghorbani Persian: شیخ زینالعابدین قربانی, is an Iranian Ayatollah. He represented the Supreme Leader of Iran for Gilan Province, as well as leading prayers in Lahijan and Rasht. He represented the people in Gilan for both the Assembly of Experts, and Islamic Consultative Assembly.
Sheikh Ahmad Beheshti Persian: شیخ احمد بهشتی, is an Iranian Ayatollah. He was the president of Qom University. He represented the people of Fars Province in the first and second terms in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, as well as the third, fourth, and fifth terms of the Assembly of Experts.
