# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mohsen-kadivar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:37:21.419Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mohsen-kadivar"
name: "Mohsen Kadivar"
slug: "mohsen-kadivar"
description: "Mohsen Kadivar is an Iranian mujtahid, Islamic theologian, philosopher, writer, leading intellectual reformist, and research professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. A political Iranian dissident, Kadivar has been a vocal critic of the doctrine of clerical rule, also known as Velayat-e Faqih, and a strong advocate of democratic and liberal reforms in Iran as well as constructional reform in understanding of shari'a and Shi'a theology. Kadivar has served time in prison in Iran for his political activism and beliefs."
tagline: "Iranian philosopher"
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birthDate: "1959-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           9.505084
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump