Fereshteh Ahmadi is Associate Professor of sociology. She concluded her Ph.D in sociology at Uppsala University in 1995. Her Ph.D thesis, Iranian Islam and the Concept of the Individual, deals with the problem of the non-development of the concept of the individual in the Iranian ways of thinking. This work is written in two distinct parts, one written by her, and the other by Nader Ahmadi. There, Fereshteh Ahmadi tries to explain the cognitive and philosophical obstacles to the development of the concept of the Individual in the Iranian society. To do so she draws on the existing discrepancy between the idea of concern for the individual prevailing in modern Western ways of thinking and the idea of the self-annihilation, prevailing in the ways of thinking of Iranian.

Fereshteh Ahmadi is now working as a researcher, presently specializing in issues related to gerontology and spirituality. Besides, she does research on gerontology and international migration at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University and at the Department of Caring Sciences and Sociology, University of Gävle, where she is a Senior Lecturer. She also does research on Islamic Feminism at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University.

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