The Center’s Foundation:

The Tajdid Center for Thought and Culture is an independent non-governmental civil society organization holding an official registration certificate issued by the General Secretariat of the Iraqi Council of Ministers / Department of Non-Governmental Organizations under number (1BE2201024), dated 2022-01-26. Under this certificate, the Center acquired legal personality and the legal capacity to conduct its various intellectual and cultural activities in accordance with the Iraqi Constitution and applicable laws.

Mission:

The Tajdid Center for Thought and Culture seeks to establish a rigorous knowledge project concerned with intellectual foundations and the production of specialized knowledge in the humanities and religious fields through critical scholarly approaches that engage with heritage and reread it in light of contemporary transformations. The Center works to connect academic knowledge with reality and build a profound intellectual discourse grounded in scientific research and disciplined methodology, contributing to the development of theory and practice, strengthening awareness, and establishing thought as a tool for understanding and reshaping reality on firm rational foundations.

Vision:

We believe that human and religious heritages are living and generative traditions capable of producing new, dynamic, and progressive readings, and of creating genuine and flexible approaches between the revealed religions—with all the history, legacy, and authentic heritage they carry—and people today, with their heritage and promising human achievements. From these premises, the Tajdid Center advances a new and promising reading of human, religious, and Islamic heritage: a dynamic reading capable of keeping pace with time, contributing meaningfully to this endeavor, and advancing the cause of intellectual foundations and religious and human renewal.

📋 Goals:

1. Attending to intellectual, cultural, and societal affairs.
2. Promoting and supporting intellectual, cultural, and social activities founded on scientific and rational principles.
3. Fostering collaboration with professors, experts, researchers, institutions, and scientific centers whose objectives align with the Center’s mission and goals.
4. Creating an enabling environment and empowering young people by supporting their causes and development initiatives.
5. Engaging leading figures and young talent and investing in capacities and abilities aligned with the Center’s projects and goals, including artistic, media, educational, and other talents.
6. Identifying the most significant intellectual, cultural, and religious problems and challenges affecting society and seeking to provide the best solutions.
7. Preparing scientific studies of intellectual, cultural, religious, and societal realities to develop detailed plans for intellectually and culturally valuable activities with scholarly and practical benefit.
8. Engaging qualified women and identifying scholarly capacities able to contribute in intellectual and cultural fields, particularly those related to women’s affairs, rights, and social development.
9. Identifying, discovering, and nurturing creativity and creative individuals and supporting them across the arts, humanities, and religious sciences.
10. Creating a suitable environment for dialogue to present and promote the best mature intellectual, cultural, and social options and solutions.

📋 Means:

1. Organizing educational and training courses.
2. Holding seminars, evening events, and intellectual and cultural conferences.
3. Activating all visual, audio, and social media fields.
4. Participating actively in various scholarly and cultural forums.
5. Contributing to the establishment and development of scholarly and cultural institutions and forums inside and outside Iraq.
6. Commissioning professors and researchers and encouraging them to write research and articles for the Center’s projects, including journals, conferences, and other scholarly activities.
7. Publishing specialized and cultural books and periodicals.
8. Establishing a printing group for printing, publishing, and distribution.
9. Forming specialized scientific committees from outside the Center to serve as a scholarly body supporting intellectual and cultural work and assigning them intellectual and cultural tasks such as writing, presenting research and lectures, or participating in preparatory committees for conferences and seminars.
10. Developing field and documentary studies.

💼 Funding Sources:

1. Revenue generated by the Center’s activities and projects, such as peer-reviewed journals and others.
2. Domestic and international unconditional donations, grants, bequests, gifts, and contributions.
3. Unconditional government support as permitted under civil society organization regulations.
4. Membership fees.

✨ Values System:

The Center’s work proceeds from a value system that establishes its intellectual identity and institutional path, based on:

1. Scholarship and rationality: Commitment to rigorous scientific methodology and critical rationality in producing and evaluating knowledge.
2. Disciplined renewal: Pursuing intellectual and epistemic renewal according to scholarly standards that preserve authenticity and engage with modernity.
3. Dialogue and openness: Embracing constructive dialogue, openness to intellectual diversity, and respect for differences.
4. Intellectual responsibility: A profound sense of responsibility for intellectual production and its impact on individuals and society.
5. Human empowerment: Developing human capacities and empowering individuals intellectually and cognitively.

📰 Achievements:

Since its establishment in 2022, the Center has built an active presence in the intellectual and cultural fields through a range of distinctive projects and activities, most notably:

1. Launching three specialized scholarly and intellectual journals—Akhlaq Journal, Quraniyat Journal, and Semiramis Journal—and attracting distinguished researchers and academics from the Arab and Islamic worlds.
2. Publishing and authoring high-quality specialized Arabic books, translating rigorous works, and concluding scholarly agreements with major international publishing houses in publishing and translation.
3. Beginning the establishment of a comprehensive academic project concerned with the humanities, religious studies, and social sciences.
4. Establishing Dar Tajdid for Printing and Publishing and contributing to the publication of books and scholarly periodicals.
5. Concluding partnerships and cooperation agreements with Arab and international universities and scholarly institutions.
6. Organizing seminars, conferences, and workshops addressing issues of thought, religion, and society.
7. Strengthening the Center’s scholarly and media presence through research projects and sustained knowledge activities.