Governance from the Perspective of Islam

Ayatullah Aqa Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Na'ini (1860-1936) was born in central Iran and was a leading mujtahid of the first half of twentieth century.

Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmoud Taleqani (1911-79) was born in Iran's northern city of Taleqan and received his higher religious education in Qom, Iran's premier centre of Shi'a learning.

Lotfali Khonji is a writer and freelance translator. His English translations include the Symphony of the Dead (a Persian novel by Abbas Maroufi), Beyond the Horizon (an anthology of Esmail Khoi's Persian poems), and Closed Circuit (an anthology of Shadab Vajdi's Persian poems).

Mohammed Nafissi is Associate Director of London Metropolitan University's Centre for the Study of Religion, Conflict and Cooperation. He is author of Development of Socio-Economic Thought in the Pahlavi Era (1993) and Ancient Athens and Modern Ideology: Value, Theory and Evidence in Historical Sciences (2005).