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Mohsen Kadivar

Mohsen Kadivar

Research Professor in the Department of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
mohsen.kadivar@duke.edu
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Scholarly Works - Books

The Punishment of Apostasy and the Freedom of Thought: Criticism of the punishment for apostasy and blasphemy according to the standards of demonstrative jurisprudence (Hadd al-Ridda wa Hurriyya al-‘Aqida: Naqd uqubat al-irtidad wa sabb al-nabi tibqan li-mawazn al-fiqh al-istidlali)

Book · October 15, 2023 After the assassination of the Azerbaijani journalist Rafiq Taqi in 2011 under the fatwa of the Iranian jurist Muhammad Fadil Lankarani, who condemned him to death for a blasphemous news article in 2006, Mohsen Kadivar criticized this fatwa, condemned the ... Link to item Cite

The Rights of Mankind: Human Rights and Reformist Islam (Haqq al-Nas: Islam-e nowandish va hoquq-e bashar)

Book · 2023 The book contains fourteen chapters in five sections: The Bases for Discussions on Islam and Human Rights; Islam and Human Rights; Freedoms of Belief, Religion, and Politics; Women’s Rights; and Other Debates in Human Rights. Its first edition was publishe ... Link to item Cite

Merci Islam: Religious Knowledge in the Modern Era (Al-Islam al-Rahmani: al-Maarrifa al-diniyyia fi al-asr al-hadith)

Book · 2022 The book contains the Arabic translation of four of Kadivar’s articles: Merci Islam; Muhammadan Ethics: Eight Steps Towards Noble Morals; Moderate Religious Knowledge, an intellectual and doctrinal review of issues about religion, Islam, and the Qur’an; Mo ... Link to item Cite

The Era of Cooperation and Assistance

Book · October 19, 2021 KHOMEINI-MONTAZERI RELATIONS (UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1986) ... Link to item Cite

Blasphemy and Apostasy in Islam

Book · 2021 Debates in Shi'a Jurisprudence ... Link to item Cite

The Guardianship of the Jurist: The Criticism of Governance Theory in Shi’ite Political Thought, the selected articles of Mohsen Kadivar (Wilayat al-Faqih: Naqd nazaariyya al-hukm fi al-fikr al-siyasi al-Shi’i, Maqalat mukhtara li-Mohsen Kadivar)

Book · 2021 This book is the collection of Arabic translations of ten research articles by Mohsen Kadivar on the theory of guardianship of the jurist and the issue of governance in the light of Shi’ite jurisprudence and the Islamic doctrine: jurisprudence and politics ... Link to item Cite

ANIMOSITY TOWARDS WISDOM AND MORALITY

Book · 2020 A Critique of The Collected Works of Āqā ‘Ali Modarres-e Zonouzi: The Philosopher of Tehran [1818-1889], (edited by Majma’-e ‘Āli-e Hekmat-e Eslami, Qom: Entesharat-e Hekmat-e Eslami, 2018) ... Link to item Cite

Shedding Light on the Covert Assembly of Experts

Book · 2020 The Abortive Supervision of the Assembly of Experts upon the Leader and the Catastrophe of Separating the Religious Authority from Political Leadership! (1982-1989) ... Link to item Cite

A Tribute to the Virtuous Theologian Ayatollah Montazeri

Book · August 2015 A collection of the author's papers, speeches, and interviews in the first four years after death of Ayatollah Montazeri ... Link to item Cite

In the Presence of a Noble Theologian Ayatollah Montazeri

Book · July 2015 A Collection of Exchanges between the Mentor and the Disciple ... Link to item Cite

Impeaching Iran’s Supreme Leader’s Claim to Religious Authority

Book · May 2015 The Trivialization of Shi’i Marja’iyyat ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Examining the last years of Ayatollah S. Kazim Shari’atmadari’s life

Book · May 2015 Evidence of Dishonoring the Revolution ... Link to item Cite

Testing the Revolution and Regime with Ethical Criticism

Book · 2015 Ayatollah S. Muhammad Rouhan, Slander and Authority ... Link to item Cite

Al-Hukumat al-Wila’iyyah

Book · 2015 Shi'i Theocracy ... Link to item Cite

The Green Call

Book · November 2014 A Narrative of the Iranian Green Movement ... Link to item Cite

Apostasy, Blasphemy, & Religious Freedom in Islam

Book · July 2014 A Critique Based on Demonstrative Jurisprudence ... Open Access Cite

The Rise and Fall of Azari Qomi

Book · February 2014 The Evolution of Ayatollah Ahmad Azari Qomi's Thought ... Link to item Cite

The State of the Guardian Jurist

Book · 2008 Hukumat-i Wila'i ... Cite

Shari’a and Politics: Religion in Public Sphere

Book · 2008 A Case Study of Contemporary Iran ... Cite

The Rights of Mankind in Islam

Book · 2008 Haqq al-nas ... Cite

Khurasani's Political Philosophy

Book · 2008 Political Statements in Works of Akhound Mulla Mohammad Kazim Khurasani, The Author of Kifayat al-Usul ... Cite

The Book of Intellect

Book · 2008 Daftar-i Aql ... Cite

Nazariat al-Dawlah fi al-Fiqh al-Shi’i (The Theories of State in Shi’ite Law)

Book · 2004 It is the second Arabic translation of this Persian book. It classified the theories of the governance in Shi’ite Islam, and argued that the official theory of Ayatollah Khomeini on Shi’ite theocracy, “the absolute appointive guardianship of the jurist,” i ... Cite

The Concerns of a Religious State

Book · 2000 Daghdagheh-haye Hokumat-e Dini ... Cite

The Theories of State in Shi’ite Law

Book · 2000 Nazariyyat al-Hukm fi al-Fiqh al-Shi’i, Buhuth fi Wilayat al-Faqih ... Cite

The Price of Freedom

Book · 1999 Kadivar’s Defense in the Special Clerical Court ... Cite

The Compilation of the Works of the Sage & Originator Agha Ali Mudarris Tehrani, volume 1

Book · 1999 Commentaries on the Asfaar of Mullah Sadra, ... Cite

The Compilation of the Works of the Sage & Originator Agha Ali Mudarris Tehrani, volume 2

Book · 1999 Arabic philosophical Treaties and Commentaries ... Cite

The Compilation of the Works of the Sage & Originator Agha Ali Muddaris Tehrani, volume 3

Book · 1999 Persian Treaties, Forewords, Pieces, Narratives, Commentaries, Discourses, and Debates ... Cite

Governance by Guardianship

Book Rule and Government in the Islamic Republic of Iran ... Cite