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Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani

Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (pen name M. Sereshk) is a poet, literary scholar, and distinguished professor at the University of Tehran. Born in 1939 in Kadkan, he works in the fields of contemporary poetry, literary criticism, and the critical edition of mystical texts.

Persian literature, literary criticism, and Sufi studiesb. 19392 articles

Homa Katouzian

Mohammad Ali Homayoun Katouzian (born 1942) is an Iranian economist, historian, historical sociologist, and literary critic. He is known for theories such as the "short-term society" and his analyses of state and society in Iran.

History and Political Scienceb. 19421 article

Mokhtar Nouri

Mokhtar Nouri is an Iranian researcher in political science and political philosophy. In published introductions, he is referred to as holding a PhD in political science, a graduate of political philosophy, and a faculty member at the Middle East Studies Research Institute. His main areas of work are contemporary political philosophy, the liberal-communitarian debate, constitutional thought, and the question of Iranian modernity.

Political Philosophy and Political Thought2 articles1 video

Maghsoud Farasatkhah

Maghsoud Farasatkhah (born 1956) is an Iranian sociologist, higher education researcher, and author. He works in the fields of Iranian sociology, religious studies, and university studies, and has proposed the theory of boundary actors.

Sociology and Higher Educationb. 195626 articles

Mehdi Aminrazavi

Mehdi Aminrazavi is an Iranian scholar of Islamic philosophy, philosophy of religion, and mysticism, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Mary Washington. His research focuses particularly on Iranian and Islamic philosophy, Suhrawardi and Illuminationist philosophy, Omar Khayyam, and interreligious dialogue and tolerance.

Islamic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Mysticismb. 1957

Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Mehrzad Boroujerdi is an Iranian professor of political science and a scholar of Middle Eastern studies, Iranian politics, and modern intellectual history. He earned his PhD in International Relations from American University in Washington, D.C., and has held academic and administrative positions at Syracuse University, Virginia Tech, and Missouri University of Science and Technology. His landmark book Iranian Intellectuals and the West examines Iranian intellectuals’ engagement with the West, nativism, and the formation of modern Iranian political identity.

Political Science and Iranian Studiesb. 19621 video

Nile Green

Nile Green is a British historian and professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), whose research examines the history of Islam, Iran, Afghanistan, and South Asia. He focuses especially on the social and cultural history of Muslim societies and their connections in the modern and contemporary periods.

Islamic history, Iranian studies, and South Asian studies

Nasrollah Pourjavady

Nasrollah Pourjavady (born 1943) is a philosopher, professor at the University of Tehran, and founder of the University Publishing Center. He is considered one of the key figures in the revival of Islamic mysticism studies and the critical editing of Sufi texts in contemporary Iran.

Philosophy and Mysticismb. 19433 articles

Nematollah Fazeli

Nematollah Fazeli (born 1964) is an anthropologist, author, and researcher of contemporary Iranian culture. He is a retired professor at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies and has played a role in the development of cultural anthropology and urban studies in Iran.

Anthropologyb. 19642 articles

Hashem Aghajari

Hashem Aghajari (born 1957) is a historian, researcher of Islamic history, and associate professor in the Department of History at Tarbiat Modares University. He is considered one of the prominent figures of religious intellectualism and a reformist political and social activist in Iran.

Islamic History and Religious Intellectualism1 article

Henry Corbin

Henry Corbin (1903–1978) was a French philosopher, theologian, and Iranologist, recognized as the most important Western interpreter of the spiritual wisdom of Iran and Shiite philosophy. Through his rereading of the works of Suhrawardi, Ibn Arabi, Mulla Sadra, and the Illuminationist tradition, he introduced the concept of the 'mundus imaginalis' and creative imagination to contemporary philosophy. Corbin played an unparalleled role in introducing the philosophical and mystical heritage of Iran to the Western world.

Islamic Philosophy and Iranian Mysticism3 articles

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