Mohammad Mansour Hashemi

Mohammad Mansour Hashemi, born on 23 October 1975, is an Iranian writer, fiction author, and scholar of philosophy, literature, religion, and the intellectual history of modern Iran. He earned a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Tehran and is a faculty member at the Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation.

Hashemi began writing in the early 1990s, and his work started appearing in periodicals in the middle of that decade. Since the 2000s, he has published independent works on intellectual history, religious thought, philosophy, and literature. He is particularly known for his studies of religious intellectualism, the intellectual legacies of Ahmad Fardid and Dariush Shayegan, Sadegh Hedayat, and the relationship between philosophy and religion.

His work encompasses several main areas: the intellectual history of modern Iran, religious intellectualism, philosophy of religion, the relationship between tradition and modernity, modern fiction, and literary criticism. Alongside his scholarship, he also writes fiction, often bringing philosophical, literary, and historical concerns together in his work.