"The tyrant turns out to have been a religious intellectual in the fullest sense."

The seminary is also frequently at the center of debate among religious and secular intellectuals on issues ranging from politics, religion, science and culture.

Both have their liberals, religious intellectuals, and deeply committed ecumenists.

Iranian religious intellectuals criticize both tradition and modernity.

Secondly, the religious intellectuals are bound to religious morality in public domain and in interaction with the others.

In brief, Iranian religious intellectuals distinguish various kinds of secularism:

Iranian religious intellectuals borrowed the concept of "tolerance" from these Persian thinkers and developed it further.

The current view among religious intellectuals is that the act of homosexuality is "simply immoral".

But Baghi worried that the religious intellectuals were treading on dangerous ground.

Khorasani had a significant role in popularizing the modern concepts introduced by non religious intellectuals of his time.