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Dr. Ali Amininejad (b. 1971, Amol, Iran) is a distinguished faculty member at the Qom Seminary Schools, where he teaches Arabic Literature, Jurisprudence (Fiqh), Principles of Jurisprudence (Usul), and Islamic Philosophy—including Bidayat al-Hikmah, Nihayat al-Hikmah, Al-Isharat wa al-Tanbihat, and Al-Asfar al-Arba‘ah—alongside select topics in Islamic Mysticism. He pursued advanced studies in Fiqh and Usul under Grand Ayatollahs Mirza Javad Tabrizi, Wahid Khorasani, Moddadi, and Sadegh Larijani, and studied mysticism under Professor Yazdanpanah. His publications include Introduction to the Corpus of Islamic Mysticism, Wisdom of Mysticism, and ‘Ara’is al-Hadith (an edition of Ruzbihan Baqli Shirazi's work), as well as numerous articles on Sufism, mystical criteria, Hallaj, and the identity of Islamic philosophy.
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Dr Ali Rastbeen is a geopolitical scientist specializing in Iran and strategic and energy issues in the Middle East. He is founder and president of the Academy of Geopolitics of Paris and director of publications of the journal Géostratégiques. He is also President of Horizons University, a higher education institution. He is the author of numerous books and articles on geopolitics and geostrategy and regularly gives and organizes conferences on the most burning geopolitical events of the contemporary world.
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Fida Hussain is a political researcher and lives in Kashmir/India.
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The author is based in Germany and writes on media, geopolitics, and the Iranian community.
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Iqbal Akhtar is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Politics & International Relations at Florida International University's Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs, where he serves as Founding Director of both the Western Indian Ocean Studies Program. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (New College, School of Divinity) and is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, with fieldwork in Tanzania and Pakistan. His first monograph, The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity (Brill, 2016), examines postcolonial religious identity in the Western Indian Ocean. His most recent book, Covenantal Pluralism: The Geopolitics of Interfaith Religious Freedom (Springer, 2026), develops a comparative framework synthesizing the Hebrew brit, the Medinan mīthāq, and Jain anekāntavāda. He works across Arabic, Swahili, Gujarati, Urdu, Persian, and Sanskrit. He is Executive Director of The East-West Foundation.
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Legal Scholar, Universität Hamburg
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Reza Ramezannejad is a strategic entrepreneur and international trade specialist operating in the energy, industrial commodities, and infrastructure sectors.
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Seyed Alireza Mostafavi is Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Arak University. He has got his PhD in Energy Conversion from Iran University of Science and Thechnology.From 2014 to 2019, he served as the President of the Thechnical and Vocational University, the Deputy director of Industry, Mine and Trade organization, and the Secretary of the Higher Education Management Council in Markazi Province. He has been the principal investigator for research projects in the oil, gas, refinery, petrochemical, and power plant industries, specializing in heat and fluid dynamics, energy systems, and renewable energy. Since 2020, he has been the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors for several technology companies.
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