Mohammad Faghfoory
Mohammad Faghfoory
Professor and Director of Graduate Program in Islamic Studies
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Mohammad H. Faghfoory is professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University and the director of the MA Program in Islamic Studies. In addition to advising graduate students' research and theses, he teaches courses on Qur'an and Hadith, Islamic Political Thought, Sufism, Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Shi‘ite Islam, Islamic Art and Spirituality, Islam, and other related courses.
He received his Master’s degrees in history and Middle East studies from the University of Illinois, and a Master’s degree and a PhD in political science and Middle East studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught at the University of Tehran and has been a visiting scholar at the University of California-Los Angeles, Islamic Manuscripts Specialist at Princeton University, and at the Library of Congress, and adjunct professor of Middle East History at Mary-Washington University in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dr. Faghfoory has written, translated, and edited twelve books, numerous book chapters, articles, and book reviews (see Publications section for details). He has lectured extensively in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, and participated in interfaith dialogue organized by American media.
Islam, Shi'ism, Islamic Political Thought, Sufism, Islamic Intellectual History
Muhammad H. Faghfoory is professor and Director of Graduate Program in Islamic Studies at the George Washington University where he teaches courses on Islam, Sufism, Islamic Art and Spirituality, Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Islamic Political thought, and Shi‘ite Islam and other related courses.
He received his Master’s degrees in history and Middle East studies from the University of Illinois, and a Master’s degree and a PhD in political science and Middle East studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught at the University of Tehran and has been a visiting scholar at the University of California-Los Angeles, Islamic Manuscripts Specialist at Princeton University, and at the Library of Congress, and adjunct professor of Middle East History at Mary-Washington University in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dr. Faghfoory has written, translated, and edited nine books, numerous book chapters, articles, and book reviews. His works have been published by the State University of New York Press, University Press of America, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Muslim World, International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Journal, and the International Journal of Shi@‘i Studies. He has lectured extensively in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, and participated in interfaith dialogue organized by American media. His most recent work is a long monograph on “War and Peace in Shi‘ite Islam,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, and a two volume on Life After death: Introduction to Islamic Eschatology, Chicago: Kazi Publishers, 2014-2016
Dr. Faghfoory has written, translated, and edited twelve books, numerous book chapters, articles, and book reviews. His works have been published by the Cambridge University Press, Kazi Publishers, State University of New York Press, University Press of America, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Muslim World, International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Journal, and the International Journal of Shi‘i Studies. His most recent work is a translation and annotation with commentary on a two-volume study on Eschatology, published by Kazi Publishers in Chicago, 2017. Dr. Faghfoory also published two books both by Kazi Press in Chicago: Ethics of War and Peace in Islam: A Shi‘a view; and Voices of Three Generations: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His 86th Birthday.
In Progress:
- A book entitled Knowing God
- A project on Clergy-State Relations in Iran: 1979-present
- A textbook on Shi‘ite Islam: Religion, Culture, and Politics
- Tao te-Ching: The Way and Its Virtu, Lao-tzū, Translated from Chinese to English by Tashihiko Izutsu & Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Persian Commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Translated and annotated by Mohammad H. Faghfoory
- Dr. Faghfoory is also a member of editorial board and referee for several scholarly journal
- International Society for Iranian Studies
- Foundation for Traditional Studies
- Foundation for Iranian Studies
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Shi‘i Studies
- Editorial Board, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies
- Council Member, International Association of Manuscript Specialist-Tehran
- Member of Translation Committee, Institute of Translation and Dissemination of Islamic
- Sciences and Mystical Tradition-Mashhad, Iran
- Editorial Board Member, Tehran University Press, 1979-1982
- Book reviewer for Iran Nameh: Journal of the Foundation for Iranian Studies (in
- Persian)
- American Journal of Muslim Social Sciences, Iranian Studies,
- Member of Editorial Board and Peer reviewers, The International Journal of Cultural
- Policy, London, England.
- Editorial Board, Journal of Education & Social Sciences, Karachi-Pakistan-London-UK, 2019 Jan-2025
- Member of Editorial Board: TEOSOFI: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam: A peer reviewed Journal.
- journal of Islamic Studies published in Jawa Timur Jakarta, Indonesia.