Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute (also Imam

Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...

's Educational and Research Institute , ''Moassesseh-ye Amuzeshi va Pezhuheshi-ye Emam Khomeini'') is a

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Islamic religious educational institute in

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. It was founded in 1991 by cleric Ayatollah

Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi Ayatollah Taqi Mesbah ( fa, تقی مصباح‌; born Taqi Givechi, fa, تقی گیوه‌چی), commonly known as Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi ( fa, محمدتقی مصباح‌ یزدی, 31 January 1935 – 1 January 2021) was an Iranian Shi' ...

who was the institute's director until his passing.Quarks and the Koran, by Maziar Bahari. May 23, 2009
/ref> The institute has been described by one source as being concerned with how Iran's Islamic government can adapt the fast-moving scientific and technological developments of the 21st century to its own needs, particularly by explaining scientific issues to leading Islamic religious scholars (

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) and through these religious scholars bring the thinking of science to the masses of

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s "so that Iranian scientists can operate on a par with other researchers anywhere in the world." Another source describes the institute as having been founded to counteract the challenge to and criticism of the clerical leadership of the Islamic government by intellectuals such as

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. Some clergy at the institute reject the theory of evolution, but approve of other pursuits of science, such as

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and

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or surrogate motherhood, and

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research. In keeping with the principle of separation of the sexes, women do not participate in classes inside the institute. The institute publishes the weekly periodical, Parto-Sokhan.

Departments

* Department of Contemporary Iranian Thought and History * Department of Psychology * Department of Educational Studies * Department of Political Science * Department of Philosophy * Department of Qur’anic Exegesis and Sciences * Department of Sociology * Department of Law * Department of Mysticism * Department of Islamic Theology and Philosophy of Religion * Department of Management * Department of Religious Studies * Department of Economics * Department of Ethics * Department of History

Personalities

* Mahmoud Rajabi (Chancellor) *

Nasser Biria Mohammad Nasser Saghaye-Biria ( fa, محمدناصر سقای بی‌ریا) is an Iranian Shi'a cleric, conservative politician and head of psychology department at Imam Khomeini Educational Research Institute. He is a senior member of Front of I ...

(The Vice President for Research) * Sadeq Mousavi-Nasab(The Vice President for Education) * Mohammad Ali Shomali (head of the institute's religious department) * Muhammad Legenhausen American-born convert to Islam. Since 1992, he has been studying Islam and teaching Western philosophy and Christianity at the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute in Iran.

Publisher

The Imam Khomeini Education and Research publishes many books and magazine every year since it founded. The publisher of the institute is a separate department but under control of the institute. The publisher has gotten several appreciation medal while years. The last one is the position of the selected publisher at the 20th Conference of the Year of the Hawzah(2018).
Site of the Publisher

Published

some of latest published books: The fundamentals of innate affairs Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics Prophet (PBUH) from the point of view of Ahlul-Bayt (as)

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Works cited

External links

Official Website
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