Seyed Fatemi

Seyed Mohammad Ghari S. Fatemi is a Professor of Comparative Human Rights Law and Islamic Legal Theories at the Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, where he has taught Islamic legal theory since 1995 and serves as Research Lead for Islamic Legal Studies. He also holds professorships at Mofid University (Qom) and Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran) and is an Associate Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham. He completed his PhD in Law at the University of Manchester (1999), alongside advanced seminary training in the Ḥawza ʿIlmiyya of Qom. His research addresses human rights, Islamic law, and legal hermeneutics. His books include Human Rights in the Contemporary World: Analytical Essays on Rights and Freedoms (8th print 2025) and An Introduction to Human Rights in the Contemporary World: Concepts, Foundations and Sources (9th print 2025); he is co-editor of Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan: From Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories (2025).