Ahmad Vaezi

Ahmad Vaezi, Professor, Baqir al-Olum University

Work Experience

• Member of the Board of Trustees of Imam Sadiq University | Imam Sadiq University (April 1, 2017 – Present)
• Member of the Supreme Council of the Islamic-Iranian Model of Progress Center | Supreme Council of the Islamic-Iranian Model of Progress Center (April 1, 2016 – Present)
• Member of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution | Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution (April 1, 2011 – Present)
• President | Islamic Propagation Office of the Seminary of Qom (February 12, 2011 – Present)
• Deputy for Education and Research of the Judiciary | Judiciary’s Education and Research Department (April 1, 2009 – April 1, 2011)
• President of Baqir al-Olum University | Baqir al-Olum University (April 1, 2007 – April 1, 2009)
• Deputy for Education at the Islamic Propagation Office | Education Department of the Islamic Propagation Office (April 1, 2007 – April 1, 2009)
• Deputy for Research at the Seminary of Qom | Research Department of the Seminary of Qom (April 1, 1999 – April 1, 2001)
• Deputy for Professors’ Affairs at the Supreme Leader’s Representation in Universities | Professors’ Affairs, Supreme Leader’s Representation in Universities (April 1, 1993 – April 1, 1999)
• Deputy for International Affairs at Jami’at al-Zahra (S) | International Affairs, Jami’at al-Zahra (S) (April 1, 1990 – April 1, 2001)

Books

1. John Rawls: From A Theory of Justice to Political Liberalism

   • Author: Ahmad Vaez
   • Publisher: Bustan-e-Ketab (2020)

2. Theory of Text Interpretation

   • Author: Ahmad Vaez, Editor: Saeed Reza Ali Askari, Under the Supervision of Mohammad Baqer Saeedi Roshan
   • Publisher: Research Institute of Hawza and University (2020)

3. Language of Jurisprudence and Law

   • Author: Ahmad Vaez
   • Publisher: Bustan-e-Ketab Institute, Baqir al-Olum University (2020)

4. Legal Hermeneutics

   • Author: Ahmad Vaez
   • Publisher: Bustan-e-Ketab Institute, Baqir al-Olum University (2020)

5. Introduction to Hermeneutics

   • Author: Ahmad Vaez
   • Publisher: Institute for Culture and Islamic Thought (2019)

6. Jurisprudential Approaches: Individual Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence of Social Systems, Governmental Jurisprudence

   • Author: Ahmad Vaez
   • Publisher: Baqir al-Olum University (2019)

7. The Status of Reason in the Geometry of Religious Knowledge

   • Author: Abdullah Jawadi Amoli, Editor: Hossein Shafiei, Compiled by: Ahmad Vaez
   • Publisher: Isra Publication Center (2019)

8. Introduction to the Relationship between Philosophy and Law

   • Author: Ahmad Vaez
   • Publisher: Baqir al-Olum University (2019)

9. Bada’i al-Hikam

   • Authors: Ali ibn Abdullah Zanouzi, Ahmad Vaez
   • Publisher: Supreme Assembly of Islamic Wisdom (2018)

10. Analysis of Interpretive Trends / Volume 1

• Authors: Amir Ahmadnejad, Ali Asghar Nasihian, Seyyed Mahmoud Tayeb Hosseini, Askar Dirbaz, Alireza Azimifar, Ahmad Vaez, Saeed Reza Ali Askari, Mohammad Asadi
• Publisher: Research Institute of Hawza and University (2018)

11. Human Being from the Perspective of Islam

• Authors: Ahmad Vaez, Office of Seminary and University Collaboration
• Publisher: Organization for Research and Compilation of University Humanities Textbooks (SAMT), Center for Research and Development of Humanities (2016)

12. Islamic Thought (2): With Emphasis on Islamic Political Thought

• Author: Ahmad Vaez, Editor: Amir Abbas Rajabi
• Publisher: Ma’aref Publishing Office (2015)

13. Theory of Text Interpretation

• Author: Ahmad Vaez, Editor: Saeed Reza Ali Askari, Under the Supervision of Mohammad Baqer Saeedi Roshan
• Publisher: Research Institute of Hawza and University (2014)

14. Introduction to Hermeneutics

• Author: Ahmad Vaez
• Publisher: Institute for Culture and Islamic Thought (2014)

15. Islamic Governance: A Political Thought Curriculum

• Author: Ahmad Vaez
• Publisher: Management Center of Qom Seminary (2014)

16. Religious Democracy: A Collection of Nine Articles on Religious Democracy in Islam

• Authors: Mohammad Baqer Khoramshad, Ahmad Vaez, Mohsen Esmaeili, Bahram Navazani, Ali Larijani, Bahram Akhavan Kazemi
• Publisher: Al-Huda (2012)

17. Critique and Review of Theories of Justice

• Author: Ahmad Vaez
• Publisher: Publishing Center of Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute (2009)

18. Islamic Governance: Ki Bari Min Betis Sabagh

• Author: Ahmad Vaez
• Publisher: Noor Mataf (2005)

19. Civil Society, Religious Society

• Author: Ahmad Vaez
• Publisher: Institute for Culture and Islamic Thought (2002)

20. Islamic Governance: Thirty-Two Lessons on Islamic Political Thought

• Author: Ahmad Vaez
• Publisher: Samir (2001)

21. Religious Government: A Reflection on Islamic Political Thought

• Author: Ahmad Vaez
• Publisher: Mersad (2001)

22. Evolution of Religious Understanding: A Concise Critique of the Theory of Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge

• Author: Ahmad Vaez
• Publisher: Institute for Contemporary Thought (1999)

Theses

1. The Value Model of Communication in the Quran with Emphasis on the Issue of Audience
   Author: Alireza Pouya
   Supervisor: Shamsollah Mareji
   Advisors: Mohsen Araki, Ahmad Vaezi Jozani
   Thesis: Baqir al-Olum (AS) – 2016 – [PhD]

2. The Islamic Theory of Political Progress with Emphasis on the Centrality of Political Justice
   Supervisor: Ahmad Vaezi
   Advisors: Mahmoud Hekmatnia, Najaf Lakzaei
   Student: Masoud Moeini Pour
   Thesis: Governmental – Other Executive Bodies – University of Ma’arif Islami, Qom – 2016 – [PhD Thesis]

3. Communication in the Iranian Utopian City from the Perspective of Civil Science of Farabi, Ibn Miskawayh, and Khwaja Nasir al-Din Tusi
   Supervisor: Ahmad Vaezi
   Advisors: Seyed Hossein Sharaf al-Din, Hamid Parsania
   Student: Asghar Eslami Tanha
   Thesis: Non-Governmental – Non-Governmental Higher Education Institutes – Baqir al-Olum University – Faculty of Law and Political Science – 2015 – [PhD Thesis]

4. Reformulation of the Concept of Organizational Justice Based on a Rights-Based Approach
   Student: Gholamreza Salimi
   Advisors: Ali Rezaian, Ahmad Vaezi
   Supervisor: Ali Asghar Pour Ezzat
   Thesis: Ministry of Science, Research and Technology – Research Institute for Hawzah and University – Institute of Social Sciences – 2014 – [PhD]

5. Critical Analysis of the Epistemological Foundations of Interpretivists in Intercultural Communication from the Perspective of Islamic Wisdom
   Student: Davood Rahimi Sajasi
   Advisors: Ahmad Vaezi, Karim Khan Mohammadi
   Supervisor: Emad Afrough
   Thesis: Non-Governmental – Non-Governmental Higher Education Institutes – Baqir al-Olum University – Faculty of Social Sciences – 2014 – [PhD Thesis]

6. Foundations of Quranic Understanding and Philosophical Hermeneutics: Analysis and Critique of Gadamer’s Thought on the Understanding of the Quran
   Author: Alireza Azad
   Advisors: Mohammad Ali Rezaei Kermani, Jahangir Masoudi
   Supervisor: Ahmad Vaezi, Hassan Naghizadeh
   Thesis: Ministry of Science, Research and Technology – Ferdowsi University of Mashhad – Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies – 2014 – [PhD Thesis]

7. Rational Analysis of the Meaning of Life with Emphasis on the Holy Quran
   Author: Mohammad Mahdi Ghaemi Amiri
   Advisors: Ali Shirvani Herandi, Ahmad Vaezi
   Supervisor: Askari Soleimani Amiri
   Thesis: Ministry of Science, Research and Technology – Baqir al-Olum University – Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies – 2014 – [PhD Thesis]

8. The Theory of Fitrah and Its Reflections in the Fields of Ethics and Politics
   Author: Fatemeh Rajabi
   Supervisor: Ahmad Vaezi Jozi
   Advisors: Mohsen Javadi, Abbas Izadpanah
   Thesis: Baqir al-Olum (AS) – 2014 – [PhD]

9. Examination of Richard Dawkins’ Disputes on the Existence of God
   Student: Nafiseh Samouei
   Advisors: Ahmad Vaezi, Seyed Hassan Islami
   Supervisor: Seyed Mahmoud Mousavi
   Thesis: Ministry of Science, Research and Technology – Baqir al-Olum University – Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies – 2013 – [PhD Thesis]

10. The Role of Conformity of Existential Worlds in the Epistemology of Sadr al-Muta’allehin
    Author: Seyed Ahmad Ghaffari Ghareh Bagh
    Supervisor: Ahmad Vaezi Jozi
    Advisors: Seyed Mahmoud Mousavi, Hassan Abdi
    Thesis: Baqir al-Olum (AS) – 2013 – [PhD]

11. The Attachment of Knowledge to Material Affairs from the Perspective of Islamic Philosophy
    Author: Reza Ghasemian Mazar
    Supervisor: Ahmad Vaezi Jozi
    Advisors: Askari Soleimani, Mohammad Mahdi Gorjian
    Thesis: Baqir al-Olum (AS) – 2013 – [PhD]

12. Critical Analysis of the Policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Field of Religious Propagation
    Author: Seyed Ali Mirmatlabi Sohi
    Supervisor: Seyed Mohammad Hossein Hashemian
    Advisor: Ahmad Vaezi Jozi
    Thesis: Baqir al-Olum (AS) – 2013 – [Master’s Thesis]

13. The Model of Ideal Governance in Peripatetic Political Philosophy and Its Capabilities in the Present Era
    Student: Morteza Yousifi Rad
    Advisors: Ahmad Vaezi, Yara Ali Kord Firoozjayi
    Supervisor: Gholamreza Behrouzlak
    Thesis: Ministry of Science, Research and Technology – Baqir al-Olum University – Faculty of Political and Social Sciences – 2012 – [PhD]

14. The Criteria of Quranic Interpretation
    Student: Ali Fathi
    Advisors: Mahmoud Rajabi, Ahmad Vaezi
    Supervisor: Mohammad Baqer Saeedi Roshan
    Thesis: Ministry of Science, Research and Technology – Research Institute for Hawzah and University – Institute of Islamic Sciences – 2012 – [PhD Thesis]

15. The Role of Systemic Thinking in the Efficiency of the Islamic System Based on the Theory of Velayat-e Faqih
    Author: Seyed Gholamreza Mousavi
    Supervisor: Ahmad Vaezi Jozi
    Advisor: Seyed Mohammad Hossein Hashemian
    Thesis: Baqir al-Olum (AS) – 2012 – [PhD]

16. Analysis and Critique of Richard Dawkins’ Disputes on the Existence of God
    Author: Nafiseh Samouei
    Supervisor: Seyed Mahmoud Mousavi
    Advisors: Ahmad Vaezi Jozi, Seyed Hassan Islami
    Thesis: Baqir al-Olum (AS) – 2012 – [PhD]

Journal Articles

1. Digitalization and the Future of Government Oversight: The Impact of Digitalization on Government Supervisory Performance in the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Perspective of Elites

   • Authors: Mohammad Babaei*, Ahmad Vaezi
   • Journal: Iranian Futures Studies, Year 1402, Volume 8, Issue 1 (Spring & Summer 1402)

2. An Analysis of Contemporary Seminary Research

   • Author: Ahmad Vaezi
   • Journal: Ayeneh-ye Pajouhesh, Year 1402, Issue 200

3. The Relationship Between Different Approaches to the Mind and the Possibility of Strong Artificial Intelligence

   • Authors: Ahmad Vaezi, Seyed Mohammad Qazavi
   • Journal: Naqd va Nazar, Year 1402, Issue 111

4. Legal Positivism in the Iranian Judicial System: The Interactive Outcome of Legal Formalism and Textualism

   • Authors: Masoud Almasi*, Ahmad Vaezi
   • Journal: Judiciary Law, Year 1401, Volume 86, Issue 117 (Spring 1401)

5. Explaining the Nature of Revelation According to Mulla Sadra and Addressing Related Objections

   • Authors: Mehdi Mansouri*, Ahmad Vaezi
   • Journal: Islamic Wisdom, Year 1401, Volume 9, Issue 33 (Summer 1401)

6. Foundations and Consequences of Legal Textualism in Contemporary Judicial Systems

   • Authors: Masoud Almasi*, Ahmad Vaezi
   • Journal: Public Law Studies, Year 1401, Volume 11, Issue 1 (Spring 1401)

7. An Analysis of Sadra’s Theory of Social Justice from the Perspective of Political Philosophy

   • Authors: Seyed Ali Akbar Hashemi Karoui*, Ahmad Vaezi
   • Journal: Sadrian Wisdom, Year 1400, Volume 10, Issue 1 (Fall & Winter 1400)

8. Review and Critique of Ibn Sina’s Arguments on the Materialism of Perceptual Experiences, with an Emphasis on the ‘Explanatory Gap’ Issue

   • Authors: Ahmad Vaezi, Mehdi Karimi*
   • Journal: Kheradnameh Sadra, Year 1400, Volume 27, Issue 106 (Winter 1400)

9. Social Justice and Its Relationship with Distributive Justice

   • Author: Ahmad Vaezi
   • Journal: Political Science, Year 1400, Issue 95 (Fall 1400)

10. Explaining Sadra’s Response to Joseph Levine’s Explanatory Gap Puzzle Based on the Doctrine of the Immateriality of Perception

    • Authors: Mehdi Karimi Nodehi*, Ahmad Vaezi
    • Journal: Teachings of Islamic Philosophy, Year 1400, Volume 16, Issue 1 (Spring & Summer 1400)

11. The Role of ‘Intuition’ in Solving the Problem of Consciousness Based on the Illuminationist Perspective

    • Authors: Mehdi Karimi*, Ahmad Vaezi
    • Journal: Philosophy Research Journal, Year 1400, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring & Summer 1400)

12. The Origins and Arguments of Justice in the Views of Rawls and Allameh Tabatabai

    • Authors: Mohammad Ali Mohsenzadeh, Ahmad Vaezi*, Mostafa Jafartayari
    • Journal: Political Knowledge, Year 1400, Volume 13, Issue 1 (Spring & Summer 1400)

13. The Function of Political Jurisprudence in Theorizing Social Justice

    • Author: Ahmad Vaezi*
    • Journal: Jurisprudence and Politics Journal, Year 1400, Volume 2, Issue 1 (Spring & Summer 1400)

14. The Relationship Between Divine Sovereignty and Human Sovereignty in Accepting or Rejecting God’s Legislative Will

    • Authors: Ahmad Vaezi, Abdullah Asareh
    • Journal: Political Science, Year 1399, Summer 1399, Issue 90

15. Epistemological Reflections on Cultural Justice

    • Authors: Ahmad Oliyayi, Ahmad Vaezi
    • Journal: Islam and Social Studies, Year 1399, Issue 3 (Consecutive 31)

16. Epistemological Reflections on Cultural Justice
    Authors: Ahmad Oliyaei*, Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Islam and Social Studies » 2019, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Winter 2019)

17. The Relationship Between Divine Sovereignty and Human Right to Sovereignty in Accepting or Rejecting God’s Legislative Will
    Authors: Ahmad Vaezi, Abdollah Asareh*
    Journal Article: Political Science » 2019, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 2019)

18. The Reciprocal Identity of Islamic Legal Philosophy and Modern Legal Philosophy
    Authors: Reza Azarian*, Ahmad Vaezi, Hamid Parsania
    Journal Article: Islamic Wisdom » 2018, Winter 2018, No. 23

19. The Capacities of Alawi Spiritualism in Achieving Social Justice
    Author: Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Political Science » 2018, No. 85 – Spring 2018

20. Components and Characteristics of the Social Text: Emphasizing the Theory of I’tibariyat and Its Implications in Interpreting Social Phenomena
    Authors: Seyed Mohammad Moallemi*, Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Cultural and Social Knowledge » 2018, Summer 2018, No. 39

21. The Impact of Modernity on the Foundations of Iranian Political Thought During the Qajar Period
    Authors: Ahmad Vaezi, Mohammad Dashti Marvili*
    Journal Article: Political Science » 2018, Winter 2018, No. 4

22. The Human Status of Women from Mulla Sadra’s Perspective
    Authors: Mehdi Shojaryan*, Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Modern Rational Studies » 2018, Fall and Winter 2018, No. 8

23. The Origin of Being in Feminist Theology and Sadrian Philosophy
    Authors: Mehdi Shojaryan*, Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Gender and Family Studies » 2018, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring and Summer 2018)

24. Examining the Issue of Truth in I’tibariyat: An Approach to Legal Propositions from the Perspective of Western Philosophers and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli
    Authors: Mohammad Hadi Hazeri*, Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Hikmat Asra » 2017, Spring and Summer 2017, No. 1

25. Formulation and Analysis of Key Hermeneutic Situational Constructs in Cultural Policy-Making of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Family Domain
    Authors: Ahmad Vaezi, Ne’matollah Karamollahi, Seyed Mohammad Hossein Hashemian, Hossein Porkan*
    Journal Article: Islam and Social Studies » 2017, Winter 2017, No. 3

26. The Authority of Single Narrations in Principles of Jurisprudence
    Authors: Ahmad Vaezi, Saleh Javad
    Journal Article: Comparative Hadith Sciences Journal » 2016, Spring and Summer 2016, No. 6

27. Three Steps of Transformation in the Seminary for Defining an Ideal Seminary
    Author: Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Hawza » 2016 (No. 176), Winter 2016, No. 1

28. Problem-Oriented vs. Non-Problem-Oriented Approaches: Analyzing Strategic Approaches in Managing Cultural Organizations; Case Study: The Islamic Propagation Office of Qom Seminary
    Authors: Ahmad Vaezi, Karim Ebrahimi, Ali Abdollahi*
    Journal Article: Religion and Cultural Politics » 2016, Fall and Winter 2016, No. 2

29. The Relationship Between Transcendental Wisdom and Islamic Political Philosophy
    Author: Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Political Science » 2015, No. 70 – Summer 2015

30. The Truthfulness of Quranic News Propositions: Methods of Proof and Evidence
    Authors: Mohammad Reza Amin*, Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Quranic Studies » 2015 (No. 17), Fall and Winter 2015, No. 2

31. “Critique of Methodology” from the Perspective of Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics
    Authors: Alireza Azad, Ahmad Vaezi, Hassan Naghizadeh
    Journal Article: Philosophy and Kalam » 2015, Spring and Summer 2015, No. 96

32. A Report on the Book Review Session of “The Theory of Text Interpretation”
    Authors: Ahmad Abedi, Ahmad Vaezi, Kazem Mesbah
    Journal Article: Quranic Research » 2014, No. 77

33. Examining and Critiquing the Foundations of Legitimacy Theory in Ibn Taymiyyah’s Political Thought
    Authors: Mehdi Torabpour, Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Theological Knowledge » 2014 (No. 15), Fall and Winter 2014, No. 2

34. A Critical Review of Mojtahed Shabestari’s Quranic Studies
    Author: Ahmad Vaezi
    Journal Article: Book Review » 2014, Spring and Summer 2014, No. 74-75

35. Analysis and Examination of Value-Presuppositions in Organizational Justice
    Authors: Ali Asghar Pourazat, Ahmad Vaezi, Gholamreza Salimi*
    Journal Article: Islam and Management » 2013, Spring and Summer 2013, No. 5