“Lineamenti di diritto pubblico islamico” written by Dr. Ali Reza Jalali, faculty member of the School of Humanities, Damghan University, was published by Irfan Edizioni, a distinguished publisher in Italy.

The book which is written in Italian language analyzes the peculiarities that characterize the phenomenon of the relationship between Public Law and Islam, mainly within the Islamic world, with a historical evolution of legal, constitutional and political thought from the Islamic State of Medina to the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. The aim of the book is to evaluate the legal duality of Islamic Public Law, between democratic principles and divine law and the compatibility of Islam within constitutionalism and modernity. The issue is analyzed in regard to the exercise of power as well as the recognition and protection of rights. The knowledge of an order and the set of specificities that characterize it is the main way to start a future dialogue between cultures, such as to identify the way for the convergence of the models, which, in case, it is argued through an approach due to the constitutional relativism, able to ensure the protection of pluralism, human rights and equality of the individual, without sacrificing the ethical and religious reference of Islamic Law.

The research week of the Iranian academic institutes is held on December 15- 19 annually. DU Research Week is an event that celebrates the excellence of research, innovation and creative inquiry performed by faculty members in every discipline. This event is designed to promote opportunities for faculty members as well as students to discover and engage in research and scholarship. In support of this weeklong effort, schools and departments are encouraged to coordinate activities such as research interest group meetings; workshops for faculty and students; symposia highlighting faculty and student research and scholarship; competitions; oral and poster presentations; award ceremonies and tours of laboratories and libraries.

The first Startup Weekend will be held at Damghan University on 20-22 October. The event starts on Wednesday evening when participants pitch ideas. They then form teams around the top ideas and spend the rest of the weekend validating and building their ideas, aided by mentors. On Friday evening, teams come together and pitch their newly-launched company to a panel of judges. The event is aided by Damghan University.

According to the latest list released by Iran Science Elites Federation (ISEF), the following faculty members from Damghan University are among the top 50 pioneers of science in Iran in 2018.

• Behnam Pourhassan, Assistant Professor of Physics
• Hadi Shafaei Moghaddam, Assistant Professor of Geology

The list including 70 faculty members from Iranian universities nationwide is published annually.