The Imam Sadiq University is an Islamic private university in Tehran, Iran. Established in 1982, the goal of the university is to bridge the gap between Islamic researches and modern studies, especially humanities. Imam Sadiq was established on the premises that used to house the Harvard School of Management until the

1979 Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...

. The university is regarded as one of the elite universities in Iran that has played a prime role in recruiting politicians and other prime figures in the Islamic Republic of Iran. As an elite institution, Imam Sadiq University is significantly more autonomous than other Iranian universities in inviting and employing lecturers, because it is a private organization. Prominent reformist thinkers such as Abdolkarim Soroush,

Hossein Bashiriyeh Hossein Bashiriyeh, is an Iranian scholar in political theory and political sociology, who was born in 1953 in Hamedan, Iran. Bashiriyeh has been described as the "Father of political sociology in Iran", and was a prominent academic figure influe ...

, Javad Tabatabaei have been given space to propound their own ideas in humanities.Mahdavi Kani's death leaves room for hard-liners to expand
/ref> The university offers BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees in fields such as political science, economics,

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, law (

private law Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the ''jus commune'' that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts and torts (as it is called in the common law), and the law of obligations ( ...

public law Public law is the part of law that governs relations between legal persons and a government, between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, as well as relationships between persons that are of direct ...

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, international law), management, and communications. It has eight colleges in operation.

Notable alumni

* Saeed Jalili, former Secretary of

Supreme National Security Council Supreme National Security Council (SNSC; fa, شورای عالی امنیت ملی ''Showrāye Āliye Amniyate Mellī'' also ''Supreme Council for National Security'') is the national security council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the current ...

and Iran's nuclear negotiator *

Ali Latifiyan Ali Latifiyan (born December 6, 1968 – Tehran) (in Persian: علی لطیفیان), is an Iranian writer, researcher, social- political theorist, historian. Most of his theories and researches are in the field of enlightenment, intellectualis ...

, researcher, social-political theorist and Human rights activist * Mohammad Sarafraz, head of IRIB * Ali Bagheri, senior diplomat and Deputy Secretary of Iran's

* Mohammad Hosseini, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance * Mohsen Esmaeili, jurist and member of the

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* Kazim Jalali, MP, former diplomat * Ruhollah Ahmadzadeh, former vice president and head of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization, the youngest provincial governor in Iran * Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, politician *

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, politician * Mohammad Ali Hosseini, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to Italy *

Kamaladin Pirmoazzen Kamaladdin Pirmoazzen ( fa, ‌کمال‌الدین پیرمؤذن; born 1959) is an Iranian reformist politician. Pirmoazzen was born in Ardabil. He was a member of the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Ardabil, Nir, ...

, MP * Kazem Gharib Abadi, ambassador in the Netherlands and to the OPCW ,Deputy Secretary General of the High Council for Human Rights on International Affairs * Reza Najafi, Ambassador to the

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* Mohammad Reza Majidi, Iran's Permanent Ambassador to the UNESCO * Mostafa Dolatyar, Legal Advisor and Senior Diplomat in UN, Former Head of the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), and nuclear negotiator * Hossein Ghazavi, president of ECO Trade and Development Bank, former deputy of Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance * Abbas Moghtadaei, MP * Seyed Ali Mohammad Mousavi, senior diplomat, Secretary General of D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation * Hesamodin Ashna, cultural and press advisor to President

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, ambassador to Lebanon *Ali Elahi, Reference in

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* Peyman Jebelli, ambassador to Tunisia * Alireza Enayati, ambassador to Kuwait * Ali Akbar Rezaei, ambassador to Cyprus * Samad ali Lakizadeh, ambassador to Poland and

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* Mohammad Rahim Aghieepour , ambassador to Slovenia *

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, former head of the Central Bank of Iran. He was also the first chairman of the Stock Exchange and Securities Organization, and after that, he was the CEO of

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for a while.

Islamic Knowledge and Management Faculty

Th
Islamic Knowledge
and Management(IKM) is the fifth Faculty of Imam Sadiq University which was established in 1989 with the aim of leading Islamic studies in the field of management and educating executive directors in the administration of Islamic countries. The faculty consists of four departments with activities in the fields of public administration and policymaking, business administration, financial management, and industrial management. Over the years, the faculty has sought to create suitable ground for the growth of interdisciplinary studies in Islamic management through the gathering of specialist professors in Islamic knowledge and management from across the country. The students simultaneously study the fields of Islamic knowledge and management. By integrating these two fields innovatively, the background for exploiting religious principles in management is provided. Consequently, several groups of students who have graduated from this college are now active in theorizing on Islamic management, and in providing training in and implementing Islamic management patterns. So far, 700 students have graduated from this department and are providing services in important executive and academic jobs. The Faculty o
Islamic Knowledge
and Management of Imam Sadiq University is a suitable center for the development of Islamic management studies. Imam Sadiq University hopes to create an effective network of Islamic management scholars by building relations with other scholars in this field around the world, so that opportunities are provided for the development of integrated and interdisciplinary activities in this important field of science.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Imam Sadiq University 1982 establishments in Iran Educational institutions established in 1982 Universities in Iran

Notable alumni

Islamic Knowledge and Management Faculty

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