Participation of Shahid Motahhari University in the 13th International Conference on the Philosophy of Religion

Topics include, but are not restricted to the following:

• Revelation and Divine Disclosure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
• Revelation and Prophethood in Abrahamic and Non-Abrahamic Religions
• Epistemology of Testimony and the Justification of Revelatory Doctrines
• Interpretation and Hermeneutics of Revelatory Doctrines
• Revelatory Doctrines and Modern Science: Compatibility or Conflict?
• The Authority of Prophets
• Prophethood, Religious Experiences, and Mystical Experiences
• Diverse Interpretation of Prophetic Experiences
• The Afterlife in the Perspective of the Prophets
• The Mission of the Prophets
• Deism and the Necessity of Revelation in Prophethood
• Revelatory Doctrines and Ethical Systems
• Criteria for Distinguishing True and False Prophets
• The Role of Miracles in Prophethood
• Evaluating the Quran’s Challenge (Taḥaddi) as a Miracle
• The Relationship Between Revelation and Other Sources of Knowledge

Academic Board

1. Rahim Acar (Marmara Üniversitesi)
2. Halil Rahman Acar (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey)
3. Mahdi Abbaszadeh (Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought, Iran)
4. Muhammad Akram (International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan)
5. Ebrahim Azadegan (Sharif University)
6. Amir Abbas Alizamani (University of Tehran, Iran)
7. Reza Akbari (Imam Sadiq University, Iran)
8. Mahdi Akhavan (Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran)
9. Hamidreza Ayatollahy (Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran)
10. Ahab Bdaiwi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
11. Reza Berenjkar (College of Farabi, University of Tehran, Iran)
12. Abdurrazzaq Hesamifar (Imam Khomeini International University, Iran)
13. Hossein Hoshangi (Imam Sadiq University, Iran)
14. Seyed Ahmad Hosseini (Shahid Madani University, Iran)
15. Joshua Hollmann (Concordia University, St. Paul, USA)
16. Mohsen Javadi (Qom University, Iran)
17. Abbad Karbasizadeh Isfehani (University of Isfahan, Iran)
18. Ramazan Mahdavi Azad Bani (Mazandaran University, Iran)
19. Jahangir Masoudi (Ferdowsi University, Iran)
20. Qodratullah Qorbani (Kharazmi University, Iran)
21. Azza Ramadan (Al-Azhar University, Egypt)
22. Rasoul Rasoulipour (Kharazmi University, Iran)
23. Sajjad Rizvi (University of Exeter, UK)
24. Mahdi Sa’atchi (Shahid Motahari University, Iran)
25. Mohammad Saeedimehr (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)
26. Ali Sanaee (Semnan University, Iran)
27. Thomas D. Senor (University of Arkansas, USA)
28. Rostam Shahmohammadi (Semnan University, Iran)
29. Klaus von Stosch (University of Bonn, Germany)
30. Liyakat Takim (McMaster University, Canada)
31. Edward R. Wierenga (University of Rochester)

The Date of the Conference: October 21 and 22, 2025