Personal Information
Name:             Majid Dehqan
Date of Birth:         1981
Email:             Dehghan@wrc.ir
Employment:     Academic member at Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudent) and law Academic Dept.

Education
•    PhD in Philosophy of Religion, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies.
Dissertation Title: The Preference of Epistemic Universalism to Epistemic Egoism in the realm of religious beliefs.
Dissertation advisor: Dr. Muhammad Saiedimehr
Dissertation consultant:
•    MA in Islamic Philosophy and Theology (Kalaam), 2012.
Thesis Title: Mutual influence of Kalam (Islamic Theology) and Osul al-Fiqh (the principles of jurisprudence)
•    BA in Fiqh and Osul (Islamic Jurisprudence and its principles) at Hawza Ilmiyyah, Qom, 2010.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH PROJECTS
•    Inference of laws regarding women from the legal male lexicon, 2013.
•    A report on the scope and the criterion of the wife’s alimony in Shia law (Fiqh), 2010.
•    The scope of husband’s maintainership, 2011.
•    Recommendation of demanding son in jurisprudential contexts, an instance of negligence in legal review of recommended legal acts, 2012.
•    Historical review of the impact of Shaikh Tusi’s al-Mabsut on the issue of wife’s alimony, 2016.
•    Semantic review of covering (Hijab) in religious contexts, is being written.

ARTICLES
•    The Nature of husband’s maintainorship, Sayed Hamid Jazayeri, Majid Dehqan, Bi-quarterly journal of Gender and Family studies, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2013.
•    Gender and Quranic lexicon, Fatimi Culture Encyclopedia, Research institute of Islamic Culture and Thought, 2014.
•    The realm of husband’s maintainorship; Family or Society, Bi-quarterly journal of Gender and Family studies, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2015.
•    Historical review of the impact of Shaikh Tusi’s al-Mabsut on the issue of wife’s alimony, quarterly of comparative Fiqh (Fiqh -e- Muqaran), is being printed.

BOOKS
•    Study of the origin of Feminism, Woman and Family research center, 2009.
•    Gender and Quranic lexicon, Woman and Family research center, 2015.

DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (papers and presentations):

•     A Comparison of religious tradition between epistemic egoism and epistemic universalism. International conference on the philosophy of religion, Tarbiat Modares University, 2018.

TEACHING
ACADEMIC
•    Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudent), Osul al-Fiqh (the principles of Jurisprudent), Philosophy of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudent), Methodology of research at Hawza ilmiyya (both for men and women), Qom
•    Gender and religious contexts, University of Religions and Denominations.

WORKSHOPS
•    Women’s clothing in pre-Islamic period (period of ignorance or Jahiliyyah) and early Islam, Woman and Family research center, 2015.
•    Subject and methodology studies of Islamic studies of woman, Women and Family research center, 2015.
•    Critique of the book “woman and Quran” written by Amina Wadud, Women and Family research center, 2015.
•    Woman in the perspective of contemporary scholars: Amina Wadud, Women and Family research center, 2015.
•    Woman in the perspective of contemporary scholars: Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid, Women and Family research center, 2015.
•    Subject and methodology studies of woman researches in the early Islam, Women and Family research center, 2015.
•    Lexical research with emphasis on the gender lexicons, Women and Family research center, 2015.
•    Believing in God, Dualism and review of Feminism, Hatef Policy institute, 2017.

ACADEMIC CONFERENCES (Symposiums)
•    Coverage of male lexicon in the Holy Quran over women issues, Women and Family research center, 2008.
•    Women in the view if Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid, Women and Family research center, 2009.
•    Gender and Quranic dialect, Women and Family research center, 2011.
•    The impacts of Walter J.Ong’s oral culture on the verbal and gender studies, Women and Family research center, 2014.
•    Criticism of Fatema Mernissi’s thoughts, Women and Family research center, 2015.
•    Gender and Quranic dialect, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2016.
•    Gender and Quranic dialect, University of Religions and Denominations, 2016.