About Us

Alireza Asghari studied at the Universities of Tehran and Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch and received his MA in Islamic Philosophy from Islamic Azad university, Science and Research Branch( 2008).

My research interests are in the areas of Islamic-Arabic philosophy, philosophical theology, Shiʿism and the studies of Islamic and Persian manuscripts.
My current research focuses on Avecinna’s work (c. 980 – June 1037), who was the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era.

I have also prepared critical editions of philosophical writings on metaphysics and the philosophy of cosmology by looking at the unpublished works of Mullā Muḥsin Fayd Kāshānī and Mullā Shamsā Giīlānī. I also have worked with manuscripts in qur’anic studies especially in the field of exegesis.
Curriculum vitae
1.Taḥqiqāt dar Aḥwāl al-Mawjūdāt (The Treatise of Investigations Explicating the States of Existents), Mullā Shamsā Gīlānī, edited with Persian introduction by Alireza Asghari, English introduction by Sajjad Rizvi, (to be published by California: Mazda Publishers, 2017)
2.Ḥudūth al-ʻᾹlam (The Incipience of the Cosmos), Mullā Shamsā Gīlānī, edited with Persian introduction by Alireza Asghari and Gholamreza Dadkhah, English introduction by Sajjad Rizvi (California: Mazda Publishers, 2015).
3.Masālik al-Yaqīn fī Bayān ῾Umdat Uṣul al-Dīn (Paths to the Certainty), Mullā Shamsā, edited with Persian introduction by Alireza Asghari and Tuba Kermani (Tehran: Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, 2014).
4.Al-Kalimāt al-maknunah, Mullā Muḥsin Feyz Kāshāni, edited with Persian introduction by Alireza Asghari (Tehran: Mutahhari University, 2008).
5.Al-La’ali, Mullā Muḥsin Feyz Kashani, edited with Persian introduction by Alireza Asghari, (Tehran: Mutahhari University, 2008).
6.Al-Kalimāt al-makhzunah, Mullā Muḥsin Feyz Kashani, edited with Persian introduction by Alireza Asghari (Tehran: Mutahhari University, 2008).