Daryoush Ashouri ( fa, داریوش آشوری, born August 2, 1938, in

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) is a prominent Iranian thinker, author, translator, researcher, and

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. He lives in Paris, France.

Work

He studied at the Faculty of Law, Political Sciences and Economics of the

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, and has been visiting professor of Persian language and literature at

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. Ashoori taught at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford, and lectured on political philosophy and political sociology at the University of Tehran. From 1970 to 1978, Ashoori was a member of the second Academy of Persian Language. Ashoori has worked extensively as an author, essayist, translator, literary interpreter,

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, and lexicologist. His intellectual interests cover a wide interdisciplinary range, including

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, literature, philosophy and

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. His main domain of intellectual focus is the cultural and linguistic matters of his native country, Iran, as a

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country encountering modernity. He has made vast contributions to the development of the Persian vocabulary and

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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

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, an 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 a translator, he has translated numerous classical literary and philosophical works by

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, Machiavelli,

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and others into Persian.

Publications

* Selected Books: **''Ta’rīf-hā va Mafhūm-e Farhang'' (Concept and Definitions of Culture) **''Erfān-o Rendī dar She’r-e Hāfeż'' **''Mā va Moderniyat'' (a collection of articles on the cultural crisis of Iranian society facing with modernity) **''Farhang-e ‘Olūm-e Ensānī'' (English-Persian Dictionary for Human Sciences) **''She’r-o Andisheh'' (Poetry and Thought) **''Bāz-andīshi-ye Zabān-e Fārsī'' (Persian Language, Rethought) **''Dānesh-nāme-ye Siyāsī'' (An Encyclopaedia of Politics) **''Chenīn Goft Zartosht'', a translation of the '' '' Also Sprach Zarathustra'' by

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Sources

Iran Heritage: The Legacy of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran: A Hundred Years of Struggle For Democracy, Lecture Series by Dariush AshooriAftab article on Dariush Ahouri

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Official weblog
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