Seyed Abbas Hosseini Ghammaghami

Ayatollah Abbas Hosseini Ghaemmaghami (born 1965 ) is an Islamic theologian and jurist and philosopher and social scientist.

He was born the son of the Seyyed Mehdi, a descendant of the famous political family of Ghaem Magham Farahani from Tehran, a former prime minister under Shah Mohammed. This in turn derives its pedigree over 34 generations of Imam Zain -ul- Abedin.

Education and Professional Career

Ghaemmaghami has simultaneously studied in addition to the official school religious education at the Theological College in Tehran. At the universities of Tehran and Qom, he was trained in Islamic law, philosophy and mysticism and gained the ability to perform independent legal discovery as a mujtahid. At the theological college in Tehran Ghaemmaghami lectured for several years in Islamic law and philosophy, as well as at several universities of Tehran about the basics of mysticism and philosophy, on political thought and comparative scholastic theology.

In the works Ghaemmaghamis several theories have been designed and investigated. The most important here is the explanation and clarification of the legitimate methodological role of human reason in the process of evidence the Islamic rules, the separation between the subjective legitimacy and the objective legitimacy, and with the emphasis on the need of objective legitimacy of political rule, the to mention analysis of the methodology of ijtihad based on the foundations of belief.

Published in 1988 Ghaemmaghami multiple items. With these studies in the free area of Islamic Law, for the first time a pattern for a minimum of Sharia law on the basis of accepted principles ( axioms ) in ijtihad and technical basis of Islamic law is provided. 1998 has been chosen by the theological college in the areas of " Islamic law " and " Usul " the collection of Islamic legal theories in the tape Islamic legal research on the book of the year.

From Ghaemmaghami more than 100 articles and books on the subjects of philosophy, mysticism, law, and especially Islamic law have been published until now. 1998 Ghaemmaghami was the youngest candidate to the elections to the expert.

1994 invited the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University Ghaemmaghami a Berkeley as a lecturer in higher teaching in the subjects of mysticism and theology.

Work in Europe

From 2004-2008 Ayatollah Ghaemmaghami worked as an imam and leader of the Islamic Centre Hamburg. So Ghaemmaghami condemned in the wake of the cartoon controversy, the violent protests and declared in a fatwa after the attacks in London in 2005, the incompatibility of Islam and terror.

Also, as chairman of the Islamic- European Union of the Shia scholars and theologians ( IEUS ), whose chairman he was elected in 2006 by members from 16 European countries, he represents moderate positions. The main objectives of this union are made by his own admission in efforts to create more understanding with the European societies and representation of Islam, which is based on reason and extremist behavior and actions of fundamentalists reject. At the EU Interfaith meeting he expressed his willingness to cooperate with Jewish scholars in certain questions.

Ghaemmaghani published in the newspaper in November 2010, an opinion entitled: Allows the Koran, the stoning of adulterers? It notes Ghaemmaghani that there was no confirmation of this criminal method in the Koran. The punishment for fornication was prescribed with a hundred lashes, but could - according to Koranic point of view - be reduced to half. Similarly, represents Ghaemmaghani the question of what the " half of a stoning " is and comes to the conclusion that "the stoning of Koranic view can not be acceptable. "