Musa Najafi

Musa Najafi (, born 1962 in Isfahan) is an Iranian professor, historian, and author. He is the director of the Department of Political Thought and Philosophy at Islamic Azad University and directs the Ph.D. group in political science at Imam Khomeini Educational Research Institute, with a focus on issues in Iran. Najafi also heads the Research Institute of Culture and Islamic Civilization and Revolution, where he is head of the Department of Islamic Revolution Theory. Najafi is a former faculty member of the Department of the Political science at Tehran University.

He presented and debated with a committee a theory of the evolution and the formation of the national identity of Iran, considering the period from pre-Islamic times until today. Najafi won an Iranian Book of the Year Award for Levels of Political Philosophy in Islamic Civilization, which was recognized by Iran's Secretariat of Islamic Scholars in 2003.

Education
Najafi holds a bachelor's and master's degree in political science from Tehran University and a Ph.D. in political science from Iran's Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. His Ph.D. thesis was titled "Levels of Political Philosophy in the Context of the Rise of Islamic Culture and Civilization", advised by Reza Davari Ardakani.