Mohammad-Saeed Hanaei Kashani

Mohammad Saeed Hanai Kashani was born in 1959. He pursued his university studies in philosophy and received his BA in Philosophy from Shahid Beheshti University in 1985. He then completed his MA in Philosophy at the University of Tehran in 1988 with a translation of Thomas Aquinas's treatise 'On Being and Essence'.

Hanai Kashani is a well-known translator of philosophical texts in Iran, and his work primarily concerns the history of philosophy, European philosophy, hermeneutics, and medieval philosophy. Among his important translations are 'Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer' by Richard Palmer, 'Medieval Thought' by David Luscombe, 'Classical Thought' by Terence Irwin, 'European Philosophy in the Modern Age' by Jenny Teichman and Graham White, and 'Greek Thought, Arabic Culture' by Dimitri Gutas.

The importance of Hanai Kashani's work lies above all in the precise and systematic transmission of a body of modern and historical philosophical literature into Persian. His translations have played a role in acquainting philosophy students and enthusiasts with topics such as interpretation, the hermeneutic tradition, Greek philosophy, Islamic-Greek philosophy in the Arab world, and medieval thought.