Blake Archer Williams

Blake Archer Williams is a Shi’a scholar, writer and translator whose work focuses on the nexus of the two domains of religion and state and their innate integrality. Williams studied Islamic history with Professor Hāmid Algar at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author and translator of over 50 books on Islam generally, and on Shi’a Islam in particular, 32 of which are available on Amazon.com. Williams’ works are centered around the dogmatics and fundamental theology (or "apologetics" as the Protestants like to think of it) of the Shi’a creed, with a focus on how the creed acts as a basis for and gives rise to Walīyic Islam or that particular interpretation of Shi’a Islam which was championed by Imam Khomeini and which is the basis of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Williams is a Senior Research Fellow affiliated with the University of Tehran, as well as with the Seminary at Qom and the Cultural Front of the Islamic Revolution.