Nasrollah Pourjavady

Nasrollah Pourjavady is an Iranian philosopher, Sufi scholar and a professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran in Tehran, Iran.[1][2][3] He is the founder and former head of the Iran University Press and a permanent member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature.[4]

Nasrollah Pourjavady
BornJuly 19, 1943
Tehran, Iran
Alma materUniversity of California, San Francisco, University of Tehran
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionIslamic philosophy
Main interests
Sufism, Islamic philosophy

Biography

Pourjavady was born in Tehran, Iran. He received his master's degree and doctorate in philosophy from the University of Tehran. Pourjavady held academic positions at various institutions including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Colgate University, and the Gregorian University in Rome. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Research Excellence in 2005.[5]

Awards and honors

Works
In English
  • Kings of Love: The Poetry and History of the Ni'matullahi Sufi Order (1978)
  • Sawānih: Inspirations from the World of Pure Spirits (1986)
  • The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry with Peter Lamborn Wilson (1999)
  • The Light of Sakina in Suhrawardi's Philosophy of Illumination (1999)
  • Splendour of Iran (3 Volumes, 2001)
  • Abu Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulami Collected Works on Early Sufism. 3-Volumes Set. "Majmo'eh Asare Abu Abdurahman Solmi. Set of 3-vols." (ed) (2010)
In Persian
  • Eshrāq va ‛erfān (2001)
  • Zaban-e hal: dar erfan adabiyat-e parsi (Tehran, 1385sh/2006)
  • Do mojadded (2002)
In French
  • La vision de Dieu en theologie et mystique musulmane (1996)

References
  1. "Biography of Dr. Nasrollah Pourjavady". www.studiesincomparativereligion.com.
  2. "Publishing Trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran Webcast - Library of Congress". www.loc.gov.
  3. "Higher Love, and the Other Kind". Asia Society. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
  4. Cornell, Vincent J; The Voices of Islam: Volume 2 (Praeger, 2006) p.283
  5. "Biography of Dr. Nasrollah Pourjavady". Studies in Comparative Religion. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
  6. "The Splendour of Iran". www.iranreview.org. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
  7. "Past Winners of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award | Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) | انجمن ایران‌ پژوهی". associationforiranianstudies.org. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
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