EDUCATION:

·         2000-present: PhD candidate of philosophy at University of California Santa Barbara.
·         1991:  Doctorate degree in Pharmacology (Pharma-D) from Tehran University of Medical Science
·         Research in the field of Philosophy (focused on Philosophy of religion, Ethics ,and Epistemology), Theology and Mysticism.

PUBLICATIONS

A.      Writings:

A-1.  Books:

·         A Treatise Concerning the Understanding of Religion: An Introduction to the Analysis of  Abrahamidae Faith (Terh-e No, 1999)

A-2.  Articles:

Note: These articles have been published in Iranian journals, mainly "Kiyan" and "Rah-e No: ( 1991-1999):

1.        Patterns of God's relation to human being.
2.        On foundations of religious pluralism.
3.        Faith and religious pluralism.
4.        On religious pluralism.
5.        Faith and epistemological skepticism.
6.        Faith situations .
7.        Three conceptions of the nature of faith.
8.        Earthy love and divine love in the context of Islamic mysticism.
9.        Revelation and holy texts: On foundations of critique of holy texts.
10.     The relation between religion and faith.
11.     On linguistic revelation.
12.     On ontological argument( from Anselm to Plantinga)
13.     Critical rationalism and religious commitment.
14.     Rationality of religious beliefs: a new version of Fetrat ( human nature) theory in Shi'i theology.
15.     Human being and theistic God.
16.     Theistic theology and human sciences.
17.     Objectivity in science and its relation to religious doctrines: a critical debate on Islamization of knowledge.
18.     Liberty in the realm of religion.
19.     Islam and two conceptions of liberty.
20.     Primacy of liberty to religion.
21.     On religious liberalism.
22.     A critical study of histographical method in Shi'i tradition.
23.     A critical study of guru-devotee in Islamic mysticism.
24.     The logic of reconstruction of Islamic thought.
25.     Reconstruction of Islamic thought : a comparative study of Al-Ghazali and Iqbal
26.     On the nature of religious intellectualism .
27.     Bazargan and his conception of the problem of religion and modern science: a critical study.
28.     Shari'tie  and the problem of historicism in his thought: a critical study.
29.     Motahari and Fetrat (human nature) theory: a critical study.
30.     Development of religious knowledge and the problem of Verisimilitude : a critique to Abulkarim Soroush's theory of Evolution and Devolution of Religious Knowledge.
31.     Concise summery of Abdul Karim Soroush's  "evolution and devolution of religious knowledge"
32.     Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism (Written in English)

B.      Translations ( From English to Farsi)

B-1.  Books:

1.Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.  Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, David Basinger ( Oxford University Press, 1991)
2. An Introduction to Epistemology . Charles Landesman ( Blackwell Publishers, 1997).

B-2.  Articles:

1.        Is belief in God rational? ( By Alvin Plantinga)
2.        God , Freedom and Evil, 3 chapters. ( By Alvin Plantinga)
3.        Pluralism: a defense of religious exclusivism ( By Alvin Plantinga)
4.        AD HICK ( By Alvin Plantinga)
5.        Theology and falsification ( By A. Flew, B. Mitchel, R.M. Hare)
6.        Philosophy and religion : a conversation with Ninian Smart by Bryan Magee.
7.        Indeterminism is not enough ( By Karl R. Popper)
8.        The logic of social science ( By Karl R. Popper)
9.        Reason or revolution ( By Karl R. Popper)
10.     Religious experience and religious belief ( By William Alston)
11.     Perception of God ( By W. Alston)
12.     Text in context ( By Abdul Karim Soroush)