Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute (also Imam
Khomeini's Educational and Research Institute , ''Moassesseh-ye Amuzeshi va Pezhuheshi-ye Emam Khomeini'') is a
Shia Islamic religious educational institute in
Qom
Qom (also spelled as "Ghom", "Ghum", or "Qum") ( fa, قم ) is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. Qom is the capital of Qom Province. It is located to the south of Tehran. At the 2016 census, its popul ...
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Iran. It was founded in 1991 by cleric Ayatollah
Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi who was the institute's director until his passing.
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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 (marjas
Marji ( ar, مرجع, transliteration: ''marjiʿ''; plural: ''marājiʿ''), literally meaning "source to follow" or "religious reference", is a title given to the highest level of Twelver Shia authority, a Grand Ayatollah with the authority giv ...
) and through these religious scholars bring the thinking of science to the masses of Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
s "so that Iranian scientists can operate on a par with other researchers anywhere in the world."Abdolkarim Soroush
Abdolkarim Soroush ( ; born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 1945; fa, حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian Islamic thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar, public intellectual, and a former professor of phil ...
.
Some clergy at the institute reject the theory of evolution, but approve of other pursuits of science, such as sperm
Sperm is the male reproductive cell, or gamete, in anisogamous forms of sexual reproduction (forms in which there is a larger, female reproductive cell and a smaller, male one). Animals produce motile sperm with a tail known as a flagellum, whi ...
and embryo donation, cloning or surrogate motherhood, and Embryonic stem cell research.
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(The Vice President for Research)
* Sadeq Mousavi-Nasab(The Vice President for Education)
* Mohammad Ali Shomali
Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Ali Shomali ( fa, ; born 22 December 1965) is a Muslim scholar, academic, philosopher and theologian. His religious rank is Hujjat al-Islam.
Early life and education
Shomali was born 1965 in Tehran, Iran. He studied in t ...
(head of the institute's religious department)
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)
Notes
Works cited
External links
Official Website
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Imam Khomeini's Educational and Research Institute