Seyyed Hassan Eslami Ardakani

Seyyed Hassan Eslami Ardakani, born 1960 in Karbala, is a researcher in modern theology, philosophy of religion, and applied ethics. He was born into a clerical family and returned to Iran in 1971. In 1977, he entered the Shiraz Seminary, and after completing his preliminary studies, he continued advanced jurisprudence and principles (kharij) in Qom.

Alongside his seminary education, Eslami Ardakani pursued academic studies. He earned a master's degree in Islamic Education Instruction, specializing in Philosophy and Theology, from the University of Qom, and later, in 2005, received his PhD in Theology, specializing in Philosophy of Religion and New Theological Issues, from the same university. He is a full professor and head of the Department of Ethics at the University of Religions and Denominations and editor-in-chief of the journal Religious Studies.

His main focus is on philosophy of religion, modern theology, applied ethics, ethics of criticism, the relationship between religion and politics, bioethics, human cloning, religious criticism, enjoining good and forbidding evil, and re-examining contemporary intellectual movements such as the School of Tafkik. His proficiency in Arabic and English has led him to also engage in translating religious and ethical texts.

Among his honors are: Imam, Ethics, Politics being selected as a top research work and Student Book of the Year; The Ethics of Criticism being selected by the Secretariat of Religious Scholars of the Country; Human Cloning from the Perspective of Catholicism and Islam being chosen as Student Dissertation of the Year, a work worthy of appreciation at the Book of the Year awards, and a top work at the Farabi Festival; being named Top Researcher in the field of Religious Studies and Top Researcher of Qom Province; and being recognized as the Top Critic of the Year at the Book Review Festival.