Introducing the Book *The Ethics of Religious Studies* by Dr. Abolghasem Fanaei

The product of several decades of work and research by this scholarly author, particularly in the disciplines of jurisprudence (fiqh), principles of jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh), theology (kalam), philosophy of religion, and especially moral philosophy, has rightfully resulted in a work that is very strong, mature, and free of any stylistic complexity or ambiguity, presented in a thoroughly scientific manner, on one of the most important and fateful topics in the field of contemporary thought.

This book is the second part of an extensive research project on the relationship between religion and ethics. The first part is the book *Religion in the Scales of Ethics*, in which all forms of ethics' dependence on religion are negated and argued against. In the second part, namely *The Ethics of Religious Studies*, which complements the first part, a new and precise picture of the rule of