Biography

Soheila Jalali Kondori is Associate Professor of Quranic studies and Hadith at Alzahra university. Her interests include women's studies, content analysis of Islamic studies, semantic fields of the words in the holy Quran, modern linguistic studies of Quran, and Quran and Hadith studies.
She is the author of Understanding Jews (2001) and Muslim Women, Seculation or Social Participation (2004).
She joined the faculty of theology and Islamic studies of Alzahra university in 2000. Since then she has been the advisor of more than 60 master students. Since offering of Ph.D. programs in Quranic studies and Hadith faculty at Alzahra university, in 2014, she has been an active member and is the advisor of several Ph.D. students.
She was the editor-in-chief of journal of Quran and Hadith Sciences Research of Alzahra university from 2004 to 2010. Furthermore, she has been the editor of several journals called Studies of Understanding Hadith, Interpretation and language of Quran, Comparative Theology, Hadith Mysticism Studies, Nahjolbalagheh Research, Quranic Doctrine, and Researches of Quran and Hadith Sciences.

Educational experiences:
Ph.D. in Quranic Science and Hadith, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, 2000.
- Title of Thesis: The social participation of women according to Quran and Hadith (مشارکت اجتماعي زنان از ديدگاه قرآن و حديث) . Later published under the name Muslim Women, Seclusion or Social Participation ,زن مسلمان، پرده نشيني يا حضور اجتماعي), 2001 )
M.A. in Quranic Science and Hadith, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, 1994
- Title of thesis: Understanding the Thoughts and Actions of Bani-Israel in Moses Era (بازشناسي انديشه و عمل بني اسرائيل در زمان موسي(ع)). Later published under the name Understanding Jews (يهود شناخت), reprinted three times.
B.A. in Quranic sciences and Hadith, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, 1990

Honors & Awards:
- Best Ph.D. thesis of the year, 6th festival of the student thesis (2001)
- Incentive research award, 6th festival of cultural research (2001)