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Mohammad Soroush Mahallati, born in 1961 in Mahallat, is an Iranian Shiite jurist and contemporary religious scholar. His main areas of activity are political jurisprudence, civil rights, and the relationship between Islam and democracy.
Mohammad Soroush Mahallati, born in 1961 in Mahallat, is a Shiite jurist, seminary instructor, and contemporary religious scholar. He entered the Qom Seminary in 1976 and completed advanced-level and advanced independent research courses (dars-e kharij) in jurisprudence and legal theory under teachers such as Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, Alipanah Eshtehardi, Seyyed Ali Mohaghegh Damad, Morteza Haeri Yazdi, and Musa Shobeiri Zanjani. He also benefited from the philosophy and mysticism classes of Hassanzadeh Amoli, Abdollah Javadi Amoli, and Yahya Ansari Shirazi.
Soroush Mahallati began teaching in the 1980s and has taught works such as Nihayat al-Hikma, Asfar, Al-Shifa, Makasib, Rasail, and Kifaya at the Qom Seminary, followed by advanced independent research courses in jurisprudence and legal theory. His primary research focus is political jurisprudence and the relationship between jurisprudence and civil rights, freedom, democracy, religious government, and judicial justice.
Soroush Mahallati's main focus is on political jurisprudence, the rights of the people in a religious government, the relationship between Islam and democracy, the critique of state enforcement of Sharia, privacy, elections, the Guardianship of the Jurist (Velayat-e Faqih), the rights of opponents, judicial justice, and a political re-reading of Ashura. In his works, he examines and critiques various interpretations of the Guardianship of the Jurist and the possibility of reconciling Islam with democracy.
Bibliography
Writings and transcribed lectures16 titles
The Political Reflections of Allameh Tabatabai
Religion and State in Islamic Thought
Freedom, Reason and Faith
Thought and Faith in Freedom
Feasibility Study of Elections in the Islamic System
City of the Dead: Ten Essays on the Constitutional Rights of Dissidents
Foundations of Privacy in Islamic Thought
The State and the Implementation of Sharia
The State and the Instruments of Compelling Citizens to Sharia
Supervision of the Experts, Counsel of the Elites
Guardianship, in Fallacy and Confiscation
Islam and the Requirements of the Time
Rationality in Ashura
Jurisprudence in Ashura
The Black Leaves of Oppression
Impartiality as a Condition for Judgment: Is Jurisprudence the Accused or the Accuser?
