Seyyed Zia Movahed

Seyyed Zia Movahed, born January 2, 1943, in Isfahan, is an Iranian philosopher, logician, poet, and literary researcher. He completed his primary and secondary education in Isfahan, then studied physics at the University of Tehran and subsequently pursued philosophy at University College London. His doctoral dissertation was on Frege's concept of 'thought'.

Movahed is one of the key figures in modern logic and analytic philosophy in Iran and has held positions at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, including heading the Logic Department and serving on the board of trustees. Alongside philosophy and logic, he is also a serious poet and literary critic, having written on Persian poetry, Saadi, and the relationship between poetry and knowledge.

Movahed's main focus in philosophy is on modern logic, modal logic, philosophy of language, the logic of Avicenna and Suhrawardi, and the analytic tradition. In literature, he attends to contemporary poetry, literary criticism, Saadi, literary theory, and the relationship between poetry and epistemology. His poems typically feature a compressed, reflective, and philosophical language.