Ali Amiri
| Ali Amiri | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 25, 1974 Shahristan, Daikundi, Afghanistan |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Afghan |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Qom Seminary; University of Qom |
| 💼 Occupation | |
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Ali Amiri (born 25 December 1974) is an Afghan philosopher, Islamic scholar and professor of Islamic thought. He is known for his work on the history of reason and rationality in the Islamic world and for his analysis of what he calls the "crisis of reason" in contemporary Muslim societies. Amiri has taught philosophy and Islamic studies at Ibn Sina University in Kabul and, after the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, sought asylum in Australia.
Early life and education
Ali Amiri was born into a Hazara family in the district of Shahristan in Daikundi Province, central Afghanistan. He received his early education in traditional village schools in rural Afghanistan.
As a young man he moved to Qom, Iran, where he studied in the traditional Shia seminary (hawza) and completed the classical curriculum of Islamic sciences. Amiri then pursued academic studies in philosophy at the University of Qom, where he obtained a master's degree (MA) in philosophy.
Academic career
After the fall of the first Taliban regime in 2001, Amiri returned to Afghanistan. He became one of the founding or early faculty members of Ibn Sina University in Kabul, where he taught philosophy, Islamic studies and the history of ideas. In addition to teaching, he was involved in editing, annotating and publishing classical texts in Islamic philosophy.
Following the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, Amiri left the country and settled in Australia, where he has continued his intellectual and academic work. He is fluent in Persian (Dari), Arabic and English.
Philosophy
Crisis of reason
The central theme of Amiri’s work is what he calls the "crisis of reason" in the Islamic world. In his view, many of the political, social and religious problems in contemporary Muslim societies are rooted in a long-term historical and intellectual crisis of rationality.
Amiri argues that medieval philosophers such as Al-Farabi and Avicenna developed a relatively coherent rational interpretation of faith, in which reason and revelation could be brought into a structured relationship. With the rise of anti-philosophical and anti-rational currents, which he associates in particular with the legacy of Al-Ghazali, this rational project was gradually undermined. As a result, the paradigm through which faith was understood became fragmented and unstable.
For Amiri, the crisis of reason is not merely an abstract philosophical issue. He treats it as a historical, social and political phenomenon that shapes institutions, education, religious discourse and public life in Muslim societies.
Critique of modern Islamic currents
In one of his early works, Amiri reads this crisis through three influential intellectual currents of modern Islamic thought:
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