Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
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Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani (Template:Lang-fa; 5 September 1926 – 17 June 2022)[1] was an Iranian scholar and university professor.
Biography
Born in Mashhad, Iran, on 5 September 1926 he held a Ph.D. in Persian Literature and a Ph.D. in Islamic Theology from Tehran University where he was a Professor at the School of Literature and at the School of Theology between 1962 and 1985. He had been teaching at Harvard University[2] and the University of Pennsylvania[3] since 1987. He taught Islamic Sciences, Islamic Literature, Advanced Arabic and Persian Sufi texts, and Islamic Philosophy. Mahdavi Damghani also taught in Spain at Autónoma University of Madrid for three years.
Selected works
He is the author of over 300 articles in scholarly journals[4] and of several books including:
- Kashf al-Haqa'iq (Unveiling the Truths)
- Al-Majdi (On the Genealogy of the Prophet Muhammad's Family)
- Nasmat al Sahar - A History of Arab Shi`a Poets, Three volumes
- The Sources of Arabic Poems in the Kalilah wa Dimna
- The Garden of Light: An Anthology of Sana`i's Hadiqah
- Kashf al-Haqa'iq 2 (Return of the Kashf)
- The sources of Arabic Poems in “Marzban-Nameh”, 1970s
- “Haasele Owqat” (A collection of assays and articles -1007 pages), 2002–2003
- Tarjumaye Ashaar Arabiye “Saadi” beh Farsi (Translation of “Saadi’s” Arabic poems into Persian), 2004
- Tchahr Maqaleh dar bareh “Amir-al-mumenin Ali Aleyh-al-salam” (Four articles regarding “Amir-al-mumenin Ali Aleyh-al-salam”), 2004–2005
- Maqalati “Dar Hadithe Digaran” (Articles in memory of his professors, friends, and others), 2005
- Taswib Aghlate Tchapi Tafsir, “Kashf-al-asrar” (Correction of erratum in the printed book of “Tafsir Kashf-al-asrar”), 2007
- Dar babe “Khizr” (Regarding “Khizr“), 2007
- “The Noble Princess Shahrbanu” The mother of the Imam Ali b. al-Husain al-Sajjad” Mirror of heritage (Ayene-ye Miras), 2009
- “In the Memory of Companions and Rain Drops“, (Yadeh Yaran va Qatreh hayeh Baran) A collection of his various articles, 2011
- Yad-E-Azizan Dar Bargri-Zan (21 Articles Ettelaat Presse), 2015
- Divan Khazen (Distinguished poet 4th century Hegir Miras-E-Maktoub), 2015
- Essays in Islamic Philology, History and Philosophy, 2016
References
- ^ "احمد مهدوی دامغانی درگذشت". 17 June 2022.
- ^ "Archived copy". en.nabacultural.org. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ [1] Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "CSWR". Fore.research.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 14 March 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
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