The Imam Sadegh University or Imam Sadiq University is an Iranian university in Tehran, located off of Chamran Expressway and was headed by Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani.Established in 1982, the goal of the university is to bridge the gap between Islamic researches and modern studies, especially humanities.This university is also known as a conservative center which train political officials of Iran's Islamic state, however, it has invited prominent reformist thinkers such as Abdolkarim Soroush, Hossein Bashiriyeh, Javad Tabatabaei and popular western theoreticians to propound their own ideas in different sorts of humanities.