Early Life
Mahmoud Khatami grew up in Tehran. Showing an early interest in humanities, he attended the Seminary of Islamic Studies which gained him the traditional degree of Ijtihad, the highest level in Islamic religious and theological learning. Concurrently, he attended the University of Tehran to pursue his secular education for both a BA and MA in philosophy, a MTh in Islamic theology, and finally a PhD in philosophy. Afterwards, he continued his post-graduate studies in University of Durham, England, where he was awarded his second PhD and post- doc.
Returning to Iran, he was appointed to the Department of Philosophy at University of Tehran in 1997 where he is now a Professor of Contemporary Philosophy. In 2002, he was appointed as Fellow of Iran’s Academy of the Arts. In the meantime, Khatami has been invited, and visiting professor at Iranian as well as Western universities, and has been rewarded and awarded for his academic excellence both inside and outside Iran.
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