Ilgar was born in 1973 in an Azerbaijani family. He grew up in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. He was born into a family where science, intelligence, and honesty were not just values, but the foundation of life. But this did not mean that his childhood was perfect or devoid of difficulties.

A house full of books, discussions, strict rules, but also a lot of family warmth. His grandfather is a teacher and mathematician, his father was a scientist, an oil engineer, my mother is an engineer and a trade union worker. There was no place for idle entertainment in this world: everyone was reading, discussing, arguing, and searching.

The elder brother was three years older and seemed almost unattainable – well-read, logical, strict towards himself and others. Everything his brother read – physics, mathematics, the magazine "Quantum", "Young Technician", classical literature – the younger Ilgar read next. Sometimes not understanding, sometimes abandoning, but always coming back.

But his elder sister gave him his first victory – she taught him how to play chess. It was a challenge that was difficult to refuse. Later, he began studying at the Gagarin Pioneer Palace in Baku. It was there that he first encountered the need to lose. There were no accidental successes in chess: only patience, analysis, logic. Nevertheless, patience was hard. He wanted to win right away, without long strategies, and often got upset when he lost to more experienced opponents.

But the biggest challenge was Perestroika.

As one of the best students, he was called to a meeting. The authorities, through the school administration, checked whether the children believed in God. There was tension in the classroom. "Yes, I do," he said, not knowing why he answered sincerely and honestly, and went with his visor open. It was the first conscious choice. He didn't know then that this particular moment would become an important point in his life. They promised him problems, and they fulfilled their promise - they messed up as best they could. It was unpleasant, it hurt to the point of tears, but it tempered everything.

However, everything really changed on January 20, 1990. The troops of the Allied Center entered Baku - why, no one could explain either then or after. The streets of the city were flooded with blood. What he believed in collapsed in an instant. The Soviet system, the school, and the ideals – everything suddenly became fake. He felt cheated and lost.

That's when the main question arose: if not so, then how? Where is the truth? Where is the lie? Where is man in this chaos?

After school, Ilgar entered the Baku Institute of Futurology. An experimental university combined economics, management and law. Everything was new, incomprehensible, but free.

He began to explore halal behavior in business – not as a philosophical category, but as a system of honest management. It was something completely incomprehensible at the time, but it was intuitively felt that it was important.

But it soon became clear that economics alone was not enough. It explains "how," but it didn't explain "why." Then Murtadha Mutahhari's book on moral philosophy got in his way. It was a new shift, the concept of dignity as the foundation of all virtues.

So he decides to delve into philosophy and theology. He passes the exam, passes the selection process and left for the University of Tehran.

It was not just a new stage, but a completely different world.

The first months in Tehran were difficult. A new language, new people, a completely different culture. He felt like an outsider who was forced to adapt to conditions that were not always comfortable.

But it was here that the real intellectual breakthrough began.

He studies Mullah Sadra, his concept of substantial movement, where man is a process, not a static being.
He learns Avicenna, his reflections on the nature of the mind.
He learns Allama Tabatabai, his balance of reason and faith.

Later, during the years of academic research at the Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, he began to study Western philosophy in parallel: Kant, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. At first, everything seems contradictory, but then understanding comes.

However, the main thing remained the concept of dignity.

He began to understand that without inner dignity, there was no real choice, no real freedom, and no real morality.

The next step was the International School of Human Rights in Warsaw. A completely different environment, where values were formulated differently, but he found points of intersection. Then there was Strasbourg, where he studied social skills.

But the most powerful stage was postgraduate studies at Moscow University for the Humanities (2017-2021).

Here, for the first time, he began to formulate his concept of "Dignity" not as an abstraction, but as a practical philosophy.

Nevertheless, something was still missing.

He understands that a person was not only an intellect, but also a psyche, emotions, crises, doubts. Therefore, he decided to study psychotherapy at the Viktor Frankl Institute in Vienna (2022-2024), where he studied and researched the third Vienna school of Psychotherapy - existential analysis and logotherapy (semantic therapy).

Over the years, he has developed three key ideas:

Human is a divine omen. He is given dignity.
Dignity is the filter of all decisions.
There is no freedom, responsibility, or moral choice without dignity.

Based on this, he developed the anthropological theory of "Dignity".

Subsequently, that interdisciplinary experience lead to practical results:
HuzurTherapy (Presence Therapy) -- a psychotherapeutic concept based on the divine paradigm, where spirituality and conscious presence become the keys to healing.
✔️ MHA (Master of Humanity Administration) is an educational management system based on humanity.
✔️ MHT (Master of Humanity Transformation) is a program of personal transformation through working with meaning.

He implements these concepts in:

✔️ Strategic coaching,
✔️ Psychotherapy,
✔️ Educational platforms, creating models of meaningful learning.

Ilgar Ali does not consider himself a man who undestands everything. He keeps looking.

Mistakes, doubts, and new questions are all part of the journey.