Arash Najaf-Zadeh is a Shi'a scholar, and writer whose work focuses on the intergrality of religion and state. His works are centered around the interpretation of Shi'a Islam which was championed by Ayatollah Khomeini and which is the basis of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Arash is a Senior Research Fellow with the University of Tehran, as well as with the Seminary at Qom and the Cultural Front of the Islamic Revolution.