WHO WE ARE

Risalat's President

FOUNDING DIRECTOR, RISALAT INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
FOUNDING DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL INSTITUE FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF TWO JOURNALS: THE MESSAGE OF THAQALAYN: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES AND THE SPIRITUAL QUEST: A BIANNUAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SPIRITUALITY.

Hujjat al-Islam Dr Mohammad Ali Shomali is a graduate of the Islamic Seminaries of Qum and has also both a BA and an MA in Western Philosophy from the University of Tehran. He has earned his Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Manchester. His doctoral thesis was on ethical relativism. He did his postdoctoral research on ethical issues related to life and death. He is currently the Founding Director of the International Institute for Islamic Studies and the Risalat International Institute in Qum, IRAN and the Former Director of Islamic Centre of England, London. Dr Shomali is editor-in-chief of two journals: the Message of Thaqalayn: A Quarterly Journal of Islamic Studies and the Spiritual Quest: A Biannual Journal of Ethics and Spirituality. Dr Shomali is very interested and involved in interreligious dialogue and has organised or attended and presented papers in UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Austria, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Philippines, Sweden, etc.

Profile  Dr Mohammad Ali Shomali