Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq)

Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq) teaches for the MA program in Islamic Studies at George Washington University. His courses focus on various aspects of Shi‘ite Islam, including political thought, philosophy, mysticism, and law. His research and teaching areas encompass Islamic studies, philosophy of religion, comparative philosophy, ethics, modernization and critical theory, inter and intra-religious dialogues, and religion and environment.

Akhlaq previously served as a Visiting Scholar at Catholic University of America (2012-2017), George Washington University (2013-2016), Princeton University (2017), and Boston University (2017-2018). Outside of GW, he is a member of the Board of Directors for American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies and teaches Philosophy, Ethics, Business Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, and Critical Thinking at Marymount University and Coppin State University.

A native of Afghanistan, Akhlaq obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Allameh Tabataba'i University (Tehran, Iran) in 2009. He also graduated in Islamic Classical Studies (kharij-i fiqh wa usual) from Hawza Ilmiya Khurasan (Mashhad, Iran, 2009). Before relocating to the USA, he taught various subjects, including Comparative Philosophy and Theology, History of Philosophy, Peripatetic Philosophy, Transcendental Philosophy, Sufism, Comparative Religion, Islamic Theology, and Current Theologies in Islam, at Iranian universities such as Al-Mustafa International University (2006-2010) and Payam-e Noor (2008-2010).