A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Professor of Religion Mehdi Aminrazavi
Professor of Religion Mehdi Aminrazavi received a mention in an editorial titled “Iran, India, hijabs and the fight for women” in The Free Lance-Star. “A seminar delivered Wednesday at the University of Mary Washington discussed the uprising and where it may ultimately grow,” the editorial says. “Mehdi Aminrazavi … who also spoke on Wednesday, understands the passion on the street.” Read more.
Professor of Philosophy and Religion Mehdi Aminrazavi was quoted in a Free Lance-Star article entitled, “Jefferson descendent to speak at UMW” that ran in advance of Shannon LaNier’s keynote address on Tuesday to open UMW’s Race and Religion Conference, sponsored by the Khatib Program in Religion and Dialogue. A Houston-area news anchor and social media influencer, LaNier is the sixth great-grandson of the third U.S. president, descended through Sally Hemings, one of the founding father’s enslaved workers.
Mehdi Aminrazavi, director of the Khatib Program and professor of philosophy and religion at UMW, said he is excited to have LaNier speak at the event.
“I like what he had to say,” Aminrazavi said. “(There’s a) perception of our founding fathers and the reality of the (lives) they lived and I thought it would be good for our students to learn different understandings and narratives of Thomas Jefferson.”
Mehdi Aminrazavi, Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Co-Director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies
Mehdi Aminrazavi, Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Co-Director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies, published an article in a peer reviewed journal, “Omar Khayyām on Theodicy: Irreconcilability of the Transcendental and the Imminent,” Journal of Islamic Philosophy, 11(2019): 33-44
Mehdi Aminrazavi gave a talk via webinar for students at the Islamic College of London titled “Critical Reasoning in Islamic Studies” in December 2016.
The webinar recording can be accessed here:
Mehdi Aminrazavi presented a lecture titled “The Status of Islamic Philosophy in Academia in the U.S.” to a group of faculty and graduate students at Iran-Mashhad University’s Faculty of Literature and Humanities on Oct. 9, 2016.
Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion, published the article “Religious Tolerance” in The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (279-287), edited by Graham Oppy and released April 2015.
Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of Philosophy and Religion, recently co-edited From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century, the fifth volume of An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia.
The fifth and final volume of An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with some seven centuries of Islamic thought stretching from the era following the Mongol invasion to the end of the Qajar period early in the 20th century.
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