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Work

He studied at the Faculty of Law, Political Sciences and Economics of the University of Tehran, and has been visiting professor of Persian language and literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, thaught in Oriental Institute of the Oxford University, and lectured on political philosophy and political sociology at the University of Tehran. He was a member of the second Iranian Academy of Language (Farhangestān-e zabān) from 1970 to 1978. Tehran University is the largest university in Iran, with 32,000 students. ... The Yasuda Auditorium on the University of Tokyos Hongo Campus. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

By his prolific publications in several disciplines he is considered an influential and referential figure in contemporary literary and linguistic life of Iran.He has worked extensively as author, essayist, translator, literary critique, encyclopedist, and lexicologist. His intellectual interests cover a wide interdisciplinary range, including political sciences, literature, philosophy and linguistics. His main domain of intellectual focus is the cultural and linguistic matters of his native country, Iran, as a Third World country encountering modernity. The term encyclopedist is usually used for a group of French philosophers who collaborated in the 18th century in the production of the Encyclopédie, under the direction of Denis Diderot. ... Lexicology is a speciality in linguistics dealing with the study of the lexicon. ... Niccolò Machiavelli, ca 1500, became the key figure in realistic political theory, crucial to political science Political Science is the systematic study of the allocation and transfer of power in decision making. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Philosopher in Meditation (detail), by Rembrandt. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. ...

He has made vast contributions to the development of the Persian vocabulary and terminology in the domains of human sciences and philosophy by coining new words and modifying existing ones. His works in this domain are compiled in his Farhang-e 'olum-e ensāni (A Dictionary of Human Sciences). Among his major works stands a hermeneutical, intertextual study of the Divan of Hafez (Erfān o rendi dar she'r-e Hafez) which introduces a new approach to the understanding of the great classical poet. As translator, he has translated numerous classical literary and philosophical works by Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Shakespeare and others into Persian. As a distinguished stylist writer he has elevated modern Persian prose to new standards. at the same time (multilingual terminology, Military terminology Political terminology Scientific terminology Technical terminology // Overview The discipline of terminology is based on its own theoretical principles and consists primarily of the following aspects: analysing the concepts and concept structures used in a field or domain of activity identifying the terms... Hermeneutics (Hermeneutic means interpretive), is a branch of philosophy concerned with human understanding and the interpretation of texts. ... Hafez, detail of an illumination in a Persian manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, 18th century. ... Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher. ... Detail of the portrait of Machiavelli, ca 1500, in the robes of a Florentine public official Niccolò Machiavelli (May 3, 1469—June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher during the Renaissance. ... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ...

Publications

• Articles :

More than 50 long articles in journals of literature and social sciences in the following domains:

• • Historical and socio-cultural problems of Iranian society’s encounter with the Western modern culture.
  • Literary criticism concerning with classical and modern Persian poetry, and hermeneutical insights into the language of the poetry and poetical way of thought.
  • Critical and analytical study of the contemporary Persian language dealing with its handicaps in encounter with lexical and terminological demands of modern sciences and thought, proposing methodological and technical ways for its development.

• Selected Books :
  • Ta’rifhā va mafhum-e farhang (Concept and Definitions of Culture)
  • Erfān o rendi dar she’r-e Hāfez
  • Mā va moderniyat (a collection of articles on the cultural crisis of Iranian society facing with modernity)
  • Farhang-e ‘olum-e ensāni (English-Persian Dictionary for Human Sciences)
  • She’r-o-andisheh (Poetry and Thought)
  • Bāz-andishi-ye zabān-e fārsi (Persian Language, Rethought)
  • Dānesh-nāme-ye siāsi (An Encyclopaedia of Politics)
  • Chenin goft Zartosht, a translation of the Also Sprach Zarathustra by F. Nietzsche

Sources

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See also

• Intellectual movements in Iran
• Persian philosophy

Intellectual Movements in Iran mainly refer to Iranian experience of modernism through which Iranian modernity and its associated art, science, literature, poetry and political structures have been evolving since 19th century. ... Iranian philosophy can be traced back as far as to Old Iranian philosophical traditions and thoughts which originated in ancient Indo-Iranian roots and were considerably influenced by Zarathustras teachings. ...

External links

• Nietzsche and Persia
• Official website (in Persian)