Rahim Bagheri, from Iran, has academic interests ranging from the philosophy of religions to history, literature and film. His personal interests include movies, writing scripts and poems, making short films and reading contemporary Persian poems and novels. Rahim also loves playing football.

“As I have been living in the UK for the last 3.5 years, I am quite familiar with environment here. However, regarding AKU-ISMC, I have found it very similar to what I was expecting as a very distinctive and productive environment in terms of its approach to contemporary Islamic and modern thoughts.”