Summary of the speech of the director of the department of contemporary jurisprudence of the Islamic Seminaries in the unveiling ceremony of the books of advanced jurisprudence of the department of contemporary jurisprudence

Achievements:

• Compilation of the books, “Al-Fāiq fī Al-Usūl”, “Al-Rāid fī Al-Usūl”, “A commentary on Al-Fāiq fī Al-Usūl”, a total of 5 volumes in the subjects which required in the subject of Islamic Legal Theory which has been held in 240 classrooms with the attendance of 5,000 students from all over the country in the last two years.
• Authoring the book entitles “A Legal Entity” and making a start on teaching this book on a trial basis.
• Forming 8 research groups with the cooperation of university professors in the subjects of economics, fundamental rights, human rights, legal procedure, social media, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrencies and cooperating with the jurists of the Islamic Seminary and launching advanced jurisprudential lessons in the subjects of cryptocurrencies, money, stock exchange and capital market, judicial law, legislative jurisprudence, legal entity; Compilation and publication of 9 volumes of books from the lessons of contemporary jurisprudence.
• Creating a platform to facilitate and encourage students and professors to take advanced jurisprudential lessons on contemporary jurisprudence with the cooperation of the management and education departments of the Islamic Seminaries; The result of this synergy was that in the academic year of 2022 - 2023, the subject of contemporary jurisprudence had the largest number of students and the largest number of courses of advanced jurisprudence compared to other areas of jurisprudence; 50 courses where more than 3,400 people (nearly 45% of students of advanced jurisprudence) participated in these courses, which is a rare statistic.
• Announcement of more than 200 topics for level 3 and 4 theses related to the topics that were taught.
• Compilation of 4 books on "SDR, the first international currency", "legal aspects of money" and "ethics of artificial intelligence". These books will be available to seminary teachers, and as the late Kashif al-Ghita wrote Tahrīr al-Majala, they will be introduced along with a published critical review and a suitable book title for teaching in Islamic Seminaries and universities.
• Forming specialized working groups to review international and domestic documents and laws. Compilation of a one volume book cover on the criticism of the draft recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence, which was proposed by the UNESCO organization. This critique was compiled with the help of jurisprudential, ethical, philosophical, and legal experts and provided to the Iranian negotiating team in UNESCO and will be published in the form of two comprehensive volumes of critique in the future.
• Forming and utilizing the "Ijtihād to University" network to transform the educational works of jurists of Islamic Seminaries into comprehensible articles in academic literature and publishing in relevant specialized circles, which came to fruition with the acceptance of the first article on the topic of cryptocurrencies in the monetary and banking journal of the Central Bank Research Institute of this Seminary - University Network.

Future Plans

• Launching 8 introductory courses in contemporary jurisprudence in 19 book titles such as a Bank with Usury, Sovereignty in Islam, etc.
• Compiling 7 volumes of new books of advanced jurisprudence in contemporary topics in the coming year
• Launching the courses entitled "The Legal Entity" as an official course of contemporary jurisprudence which will supplement the book “Makāsib.”
• Publication of at least 5 volumes of specialized books of knowledge along with the critique by seminary teachers on the topics of venture capital, legal aspects of money, ethics of artificial intelligence, separation of powers
• Recording and broadcasting the program “Ijtihad Roundtable” which will be an intellectual discussion by the jurists of the seminaries on jurisprudential and Islamic Legal Theory issues.
• Translation of the educational works of the Islamic Seminary into international languages and entering and influencing the international literature of knowledge.

In continuation, pictures related to the unveiling ceremony of the books of advanced jurisprudence have been uploaded: