On May 1, 2019, the policy-making committee of the International Congress on Islamic Humanities decided that it be transformed into a more inclusive organization named the “Supreme Council of Islamic Humanities”. The decision was made in light of the board range of responsibilities assumed by the permanent secretariat of the International Congress on Islamic Humanities. For this purpose, members of the policy-making committee explored ways of crafting necessary mechanisms to establish the new organization. At the end, they agreed on the “Supreme Council of Islamic Humanities”.

According to the secretariat, from now on, the congress’s policy-making committee will be the Supreme Council of Islamic Humanities’ policy-making committee. The titles of the “head” and the “secretary” of the congress’s policy-making committee also changed. And from now on, they will continue working as the head and the secretary of the Supreme Council of Islamic Humanities’ policy-making committee.

Meanwhile, the scientific council of the congress and the scientific committee of the commissions will keep performing their tasks as laid out by the constitution of the International Congress on Islamic Humanities.

As per the new organization structure, the Permanent Secretariat of the International Congress on Islamic Humanities; the Secretariat of the Global Award of Islamic Humanities; the quarterlies “Basic Research on Humanities”, “Applied Research on Islamic Humanities” and “Sadra”; the “Scientific Week of the New Islamic Civilization”; “the Innovation Center of Islamic Humanities”; “the meetings of selected lecturers of Islamic humanities”; and “the Board for Support of Theorization, Critique and Debate” of the Permanent Secretariat of the International Congress on Islamic Humanities will all work under the Supreme Council of Islamic Humanities.  

It is worth mentioning that in the summer of 2011, the policy-making committee of the International Congress on Islamic Humanities started efforts to come up with common definition of Islamizing sciences, participating in  major policy-making for humanities, producing knowledge, building discourses, identifying and educating human capacities, etc. The committee has continued on the path since 2011 as a permanent secretariat and in cooperation with 30 universities and seminaries.

The secretariat has so far held five international congresses in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 in Tehran and Qom. It has also been in contact with 2,000 humanities researchers. Other achievements of the secretariat are:

-Holding three editions of the Global Award of Islamic Humanities concurrently with the International Congress on Islamic Humanities

-Publishing over 40 books

-Arranging speeches by the heads of the branches of the government, Shia religious authorities and prominent Muslim scholars (including Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, Javadi Amoli, Mesbah Yazdi…)

-Linking over 2,000 seminary and university scholars and lecturers on a network

-Publishing theorization books under the general title of “Theory Book”

-Publishing two scientific-research magazines entitled “Basic Research on Humanities” and “Applied Research on Islamic Humanities” quarterlies

-Publishing the popular discourse-making magazine “Sadra” on Islamic humanities

-Holding specialized meetings of prominent lecturers of Islamic humanities in the holy city of Mashhad (four meetings, namely, “Nature of Religious Science”, “Islamic Philosophy”, Islamic Economics” and “Islamic Psychology” have been held so far)

-Holding international conferences abroad (including in Afghanistan and Lebanon)

-Having subsidiaries like the Innovation Center of Islamic Humanities for supporting young innovators and intellectuals and holding theorization seminars under the supervision of the Board for Support of Theorization, Critique and Debate.