21 Mordad 1404 – Contemporary Jurisprudence

Hojjat al-Islam Mustafa Dorri, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Jurisprudential Studies:

We Must Distinguish Between Academic Credentials and Seminary’s Value-Based Titles / If We Are to Emulate Universities, It Should Be the World’s Top Universities, Not Those Ranked 300 or 400! / Certification of Ijtihad Should Follow Traditional Methods

The leading and outstanding Seminary/1

Several weeks have passed since the historic message of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution to the conference marking the centennial of the re-establishment of the Qom Seminary, a message that can be regarded as the second “Charter of the Clergy.” One of the key themes of this message was the necessity for the seminary to issue its own independent credentials. In this regard, we spoke with Hojjat al-Islam Mustafa Dorri, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Jurisprudential Studies. In addition to teaching and research, he has been actively involved in curriculum planning for many years and has participated in numerous meetings of the Supreme Council of Seminaries for this purpose. He firmly believes that the need for independent seminary credentials is evident. He argues that those who designed the current four-level credential system for seminaries have essentially imitated universities, whereas it would have been preferable either to avoid such imitation entirely or to model the system after the world’s top universities. According to this Qom Seminary professor and researcher, the pursuit of credentials within the seminary is a product of the market created by seminary management. If no practical significance were attached to seminary credentials internally, students would not pursue them. Below is the detailed and insightful interview conducted by Contemporary Jurisprudence with this professor of both seminary and university:🔻

Exposition of Imam Khomeini’s School of Thought on the Eve of His Passing Anniversary

Ayatullah Nur Mufidi: The Efficacy of Jurisprudence Is Not Possible Without Considering Time and Place in Ijtihad and Without Governance

The leading and outstanding Seminary/2

Coinciding with the approaching anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s passing, the twenty-second session of the “Series of Sessions on the Exposition of Imam Khomeini’s School of Thought” was held on 6 Khordad 1404 (May 27, 2025) at the Imam Khomeini Memorial Complex in Qom, with a lecture by Ayatullah Sayyid Mujtaba Nur Mufidi. In this session, he elucidated the perspectives of the late Imam Khomeini and the Supreme Leader, addressing the fundamental and impactful requirements for achieving effective jurisprudence and a progressive seminary, while stressing the necessity of transforming seminary approaches to meet the contemporary needs of society and its governance.

President of Baqir al-Olum University, in an Exclusive Interview with Contemporary Jurisprudence:

Fiqh Can Contribute to Natural Resource Policy-Making in Both Its Objectives and Processes

Governance in the Preservation and Protection of Natural Resources from the Perspective of Imami Jurisprudence/2

Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimin Dr. Seyyed Ehsan Rafiei Alavi, before being appointed as Vice President of Education and later President of Baqir al-Ulum University, spent years researching the fiqh of natural resources, including the fiqh of oil and gas. In this interview, we discussed fiqh and its role in policy-making for the preservation of natural resources. He believes that the discipline of fiqh can assist policy-making both in defining obligations and prohibitions and in the implementation of rulings. The full text of the exclusive interview with Contemporary Jurisprudence and the President of Baqir al-Ulum University follows: 🔻