Sayed Hassan Akhlaq

He has managed the first Afghan intellectuals magazine, Rayehey-e-azadi:the smell of freedom by international co-editorial staff for more than two years. He, also has published five books showing the author's intellectual trend. His dozens of articles have been published in scholarly and scientific journals (such as: Ayeneh Marefat: Beheshti University, Islam Pizuhi: IHCS, Zehn: Islamic Research Institute for culture and thought, Human Rights: Mofid University, Nebras: Nebras Research Institute in Kabul). Akhlaq is the first Afghan philosopher that presented papers in The XXII World Congress of Philosophy (2008 Seoul) and Catholic University of America (Washington DC: 2009). He, also, has published several papers on several profound websites like openDemocracy and HuffingtonPost. Prof. Akhlaq is a professional member of American Academy of Religion and American Philosophical Association.

Akhlaq was born in 1976 in Sayghan city in the province of Bamyan, Afghanistan. He immigrated to Iran when he was four years old. Finishing primary and secondary schools in Mashhad he started to study classical religious seminaries (In Qum and Mashhad). Afterward he studied Islamic traditional courses and educated in the field of Islamic Theology and Philosophy in Razavi University of Islamic Sciences. He obtained his Master of Art degree in the field of Western philosophy from the Imam Khomeini International University and a doctorate (PhD) in Western philosophy from Allameh Tabatabai University. He has taught at some universities in Iran and Afghanistan Such as Payame Noor University, Al-Mustafa International University and Gharjistan Institute of Higher Education. He acted as the adviser of Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan and Chancellor of Gharjistan University (Farah Branch). He works as the adviser for the Center for the Study of Islam and the Middle East in Washington D.C. Akhlaq, also, was affiliated with the George Washington University, the Catholic University of America, Princeton University and Boston University. He used to give lectures at the Catholic University of America. and Boston University.