The Farabi International Award is given annually by the
Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to
humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...
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Farabi Award winners become a member of
Iran's National Elites Foundation
Iran's National Elites Foundation (INEF) ( fa, بنياد ملي نخبگان, '' Benyad-e Mili-ye Nuxebegan'') is an Iranian governmental organization. The main purpose of the foundation is to recognize, organize and support Iran's elite nationa ...
.
Outstanding winners
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Iraj Afshar
Iraj Afshar ( fa, ایرج افشار; 8 October 1925 – 9 March 2011) was a bibliographer, historian, scholar, professor, and an iconic figure in the field of Persian studies. Afshar was a professor emeritus of the University of Tehran. He ...
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Fathollah Mojtabaei
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William Chittick
William C. Chittick (born 29 June 1943) is an American philosopher, writer, translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on th ...
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Carl W. Ernst
Carl W. Ernst (born September 8, 1950, in Los Angeles, California) is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Islamic studies at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was ...
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Hamid Algar
Hamid Algar (born 1940) is a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He writes on Persian and Arabic literature and contemporary history of Iran, Turkey, the ...
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Jafar Shahidi
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Gholamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani
Gholam-hossein Ebrahimi Dinani ( fa, غلامحسین ابراهیمی دینانی, also Romanized as ''Gholām-hossein Ebrāhīmī Dīnānī''; born on 26 December 1934 in Isfahan) is an Iranian philosopher. He is best known for his research an ...
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Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh (born 9 February 1946) is an Iranian political scientist and historian.
He is a prominent Iranologist, geopolitics researcher, historian and political scientist. He teaches geopolitics at the Tarbiat Modares University of Tehr ...
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Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad
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Charles-Henri de Fouchécour
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Michael Cook (historian)
Michael Allan Cook FBA (born in 1940) is a British historian and scholar of Islamic history. Cook is the general editor of ''The New Cambridge History of Islam''.
Biography
Michael Cook developed an early interest in Turkey and Ottoman history ...
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Richard N. Frye
Richard Nelson Frye (January 10, 1920 – March 27, 2014) was an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University. His professional areas of interest were Irania ...
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Abouzar Fattahizadeh
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Gary Legenhausen
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Abdollah Javadi-Amoli
Abdollah Javadi Amoli ( fa, عبدالله جوادی آملی; born ) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative and principlist Iranian politician, philosopher and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza. The official w ...
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Reza Davari Ardakani
Reza Davari Ardakani ( fa, رضا داوری اردکانی; born 6 July 1933, in Ardakan) is an Iranian philosopher who was influenced by Martin Heidegger, and a distinguished emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran. He is ...
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Mehdi Mohaghegh
Mehdi Mohaghegh, sometimes transliterated Mahdi Muhaqqiq, (born 1930, Mashad, Iran) is an Iranian scholar specializing in Persian literature, Islamic studies and philosophy.
He has a Ph.D. in both Ilahiyyat (theology) and Persian language and li ...
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Ahmad Samiei Gilani
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Hamid Ahmadi (historian)
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Mahdi Fadaei Mehrabani
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Murtada Sharif 'Askari
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Herman Landolt
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Sadegh Ayenevand Sadegh, or accented Sādegh (in fa, صادق), is an Iranian name and variant of Sadeq.
Given name
*Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh (born 1932), Iranian boxer
*Sadegh Amirazizi (1905–1992), Iranian army general and politician
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Ezzatollah Fouladvand
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Gholamhossein Mosaheb
Gholamhossein Mosaheb (October 13, 1910 – 1979) was an Iranian mathematician and logic
Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or o ...
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Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan
Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan ( fa, محمدعلی اسلامی ندوشن; 25 August 1924 – 25 April 2022) was an Iranian literary critic, translator and poet, and one of the most celebrated contemporary writers on culture and literature in ...
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Frank Hole
Frank Hole (born 1931) is an American Near Eastern archaeologist known for his work on the prehistory of Iran, the origins of food production, and the archaeology of pastoral nomadism. He is C. J. MacCurdy Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Y ...
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Javad Tabatabai
Seyyed Javad Tabatabai ( fa, سید جواد طباطبایی; born 14 December 1945 in Tabriz, Iran) is an Iranian philosopher and political scientist. He was Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University o ...
References
External links
Official website
Science and technology in Iran
Humanities awards
Iranian awards
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