Iranian Scholar, Dr. Mahmoud Sadri, will be the inaugural speaker of Wagner's Faith & Life Lecture Series which will take place next Wednesday, September 20 at 7:15pm in Spiro 4. The Faith and Life Series is sponsored by the Qualben Fund and its key goal is to foster inter-religious understanding and dialogue.
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Mahmoud Sadri is a full professor of sociology at the Federation of North Texas Area Universities that includes Texas Woman's University, University of North Texas, and A&M University, Commerce. He is stationed at Texas Woman's University. His major interests include Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Culture, and Theoretical Sociology. More specifically, he is interested and involved in "interfaith dialogue" and "Islamic reform".
A partial list of his most recent books and articles include: "Premonitions of Interfaith Dialogue," in: "Interreligious Insight" January, 2006; "Hojjatieh", "Radical Islam", and "Halabi": entries in: Encyclopedia Iranica; in 2005 and 2006; "Migration Dynamics: A Theoretical and Substantive Reader, edited volume, Spring 2003, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Publications, co-editor: Mohsen Mobasher; "Sacral Defense of Secularism" in :Intellectual Trends in 20th Century Iran, 2003. Florida University; "Good News About Modernity" in: The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim, & Weber, Volume II, March, 2000. New York, Gordian Knot Books; Reason, Freedom, and Democracy In Islam: The Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush, Oxford University Press, 2000, with Ahmad Sadri.
In addition, Dr. Sadri regularly contributes to popular journals and newspapers in his native country, Iran, and grants interviews to radio and television programs such as BBC, Radio France, Voice of America, and Radio Australia. Also, he writes op. ed pieces for "Daily Star", the largest circulation newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon, and occasional pieces for Guardian, UK. New York Times, Forth Worth Daily Telegraph, Newsweek, and Time have carried interviews, profiles, and quotations from him in the recent years.
