Dr Mohammad Mehdi Mojahedi
I hold a Phd in Political theory and MAs in Political Sciences and Islamic Studies from ISU, Tehran, and Human Rights from UCL. In 2003, I received a one-year post-doctoral scholarship for research at the Wissenchaftkolleg zu Berlin where I studied political hermeneutics of religious texts. I have held faculty and administrative positions at research institutes and universities in Iran over the past nine years. As a faculty member of the Mofid University in Iran, and as a guest lecturer in Iran and Europe, I have been teaching BA and MA courses mainly in political thought, human rights, methodology, and Islamic and Iranian studies. I have also published widely, co-authoring and contributing to books and authoring articles in the areas of Islamic Culture and Philosophy, human rights, political theology and mysticism. I have been a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam from October 2009 until January 2011. I am now at the final stage of authoring a book on the enigma of the universality of human rights for the Mofid University’s Centre for Human Rights Studies. I have also made numerous published contributions to international conferences including on the theoretical foundations of educational reform in Iran, Islam and human rights, and human rights and multiculturalism. I am currently working on two research projects. One is about ‘the politics of small things’ as a methodological approach to studying the trends of socio-political movements when they are still ongoing. In the other, I am working on the transformation of the concept of violence in the Islamic law, especially in contemporary Shiite Islam.
