title: Ahmad Vaezi
text: # Ahmad Vaezi
  
  Ahmad Vaezi (Persian: احمد واعظی; born 1963) is an Iranian philosopher, scholar and clergyman. As of 2023, he is the chief of Islamic propagation office of the Center for the Islamic Iranian Model of Progress in Qom.
  
  ## Early life and education
  
  Ahmad Vaezi was born in Rey, Iran, in 1963. He entered Qom seminary in 1982 and studied preliminary courses in religious sciences in 1986. He then took courses in Islamic jurisprudence, including the classes of scholars such as Ayatollah Hossein Vahid Khorasani, Shiekh Jawad Tabrizi, Seyed Kazem Haeri, and Sadeq Larijani. Mastering Philosophy under Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi and H. Fayazi, he then started his professional studies in Western Philosophy and Modern Transmitted Sciences.
  
  ## Career
  
  He has been a university lecturer since 1987 and has taught in many Iranian and International universities. In 2001 he moved to the United Kingdom to teach at Cambridge University, and at the Islamic College and London Seminary. His major research interests are Modern Transmitted Sciences and Western Philosophy and, since 2006, he has focused on Hermeneutics and Political Thought. According to Radio Farda, as of 17 April 2020, Ahmad Vaezi was the director of the Islamic Propaganda Office of Qom Seminary (which according to Radio Fardo had a 2020-2021 Approved Budget of $35,714,285 and is one of the religious organizations that assist in spreading the Islamic Republic’s message at home and abroad).
  
  