SMA: Northwestern Univ. Shia Muslim Association

Northwestern SMA Lecture Series Friday, September 11 7:15 Arrival 7:30 Prayer 7:50 Lecture and Q&A 9:00 Clean up Title: “Faith and Secularism” (Lecture 2) by Dr. Seyed Nasir Mousavian, Loyola University Chicago Seyed Nasir Mousavian joined the department of philosophy at LUC in Sep 2021. Before that, he completed a six-year research project (Representation and Reality: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Aristotelian Tradition) in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and held the associate professorship of philosophy in the School of Analytic Philosophy at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran. He obtained his PhD in philosophy from the University of Alberta, Canada and received traditional Islamic education (including Philosophy, Theology, and Legal Theory) at Marwī Seminary, Tehran. He specializes in philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, metaphysics, and medieval Islamic/Arabic philosophy. Mousavian has published in Mind and Language, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, and History and Philosophy of Logic, among other places. Location: 2122 Sheridan Road, TGS Commons, Room 140, Evanston, Illinois 60201 Northwestern University Shia Muslim Association (SMA) @NorthwesternSMA