Mohammad Jafar Mahallati

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati is an Iranian scholar of Islamic studies and a former diplomat. He is currently serving as the Nancy Schrom Dye Chair in Middle East and North African Studies at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. During 1987-89, he served as the Iran's ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.[1][2]

Jafar Mahallati at TEDxTehran

Life

Born in Tehran, Mahallati initially studied economics at the National University of Iran and civil engineering at the University of Kansas in the US. Later, he obtained a master's in political economy from the University of Oregon and earned his PhD in Islamic studies from McGill University in Canada. Serving as the chair of the department of economics in Kerman University for a year, Mahallati became a diplomat and spent a decade working with the United Nations. He played a major role in adopting the Security Council Resolution 598 which brought the Iran-Iraq war to an end. Returning to his academic career, Mahallati taught at various institutions including Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Georgetown. In 2007, he joined the Oberlin College and is still serving as the Presidential Scholar in Islamic Studies and the Nancy Schrom Dye Chair in Middle East and North African Studies.[3]

Works
  • Ethics of War and Peace in Iran and Shi'i Islam (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, Nov 14, 2016)
  • Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics (the University of Michigan Press, 2019)
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gollark: What now?
gollark: Paying them a lot is actually somewhat good in that it hopefully attracts better people, and makes them less likely to take money from others.
gollark: > If they're fit to rule they will survive.I mean, kind of? If you randomly remove governments *somehow* when they run into some kind of issue, I figure you would introduce far more problems.
gollark: That would probably be bad. Governments do important things. Sometimes.

References
  1. Boustany, Nora (1988-07-05). "ARAB STATES HOPE TRAGEDY CAN LEAD TO PEACE IN GULF". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  2. "UN CONFIRMS IRAN'S EFFORTS TO END CRISIS - CSMonitor.com". www.csmonitor.com. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  3. "Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Religion Professor". The Oberlin Review. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
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