Mohammad Ali Mirzaei

Professor at Seminary and University

Dr. Mohammad Ali Mirzaei is a researcher, faculty member, and head of the Think Tank of Al-Mustafa International University. He holds a PhD in Theological Denominations from the University of Religions and Denominations and works in the fields of theology (Kalām), Islamic civilizational studies, Qur'anic studies, and proximity studies. He has various executive records inside and outside the country, including director and founder of the Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) Seminary and the Thaqalayn Center in Nigeria, director of the Seminary of al-Rasul al-Akram (PBUH) and al-Zahra (PBUH) in Lebanon, editor-in-chief of the scholarly-research journal Al-Hayat al-Tayyibah in Lebanon, and director of the civilizational research center "Al-Hadarah" in Lebanon. He has also been the former cultural counselor of Iran in Lebanon and the former CEO of the Iran Book House. He is the founder of the Institute for the Development of Islamic Civilization Research in Lebanon, which has published numerous works in the fields of Iranian studies, Shi'i studies, civilizational studies, and Qur'anic studies. Mirzaei has authored more than ten books and about one hundred articles in Persian and Arabic. Among his important works are Marji'iyyat al-Qur'an al-Ma'rifiyya (in Arabic) and Dictionary of Contemporary Terms (Arabic to Persian). His research areas include civilizational theology, the relationship between religion and politics, critique of contemporary Islamic thoughts, and the requirements of the globalization of the seminary. He has addressed topics such as Shahid Sadr's thematic exegesis, proximity of denominations, and the civilizational challenges of the Islamic world in numerous meetings and articles.