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
Born	July 19, 1943 Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	University of California, San Francisco, University of Tehran
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Islamic philosophy
Main interests	Sufism, Islamic philosophy

Awards and Honors

• Persian Literature Award (2004)
• Alexander von Humboldt Award (2005) [5]
• Sai'di Sirjani Book Award (2008)[6]

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. "The Splendour of Iran". www.iranreview.org. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
6. "Past Winners of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award | Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) | انجمن ایران‌ پژوهی". associationforiranianstudies.org. Retrieved 2019-06-21.