Professor Ali Fanaei is a moral philosopher and prominent Iranian public intellectual. He studied at the ¿awza ¿Ilmiyya of Qom for seventeen years, including seven years of advanced studies under leading scholars. He went on to complete an MA in Islamic Theology under Ahmad Ahmadi and Mostafa Malekian at the University of Qom before undertaking an MPhil and PhD at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Robert Stern and Richard Joyce. His doctoral thesis was entitled "The Methods of Moral Inquiry: An Inquiry into the Problem of Justification in Moral Epistemology." He has taught at Al-Mahdi Institute for many years as a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies and is also a Professor of Philosophy and the Head of the Department of Philosophy at Mofid University in Qom, Iran.