Hekmat-e Shirazi حکمت شیرازی or Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan Hekmat-e Shirazi (16 June 1892 – 25 August 1980) was an Iranian politician, diplomat and author who served as the Iranian
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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,
Minister of Justice
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, and
Minister of Culture
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under the government of Reza Shah and
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the
Shahs of Iran. Hekmat was an
Iranian ambassador to India and wrote multiple books about Indian history and culture. After the Islamic revolution in
Iran
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, his books and works were ignored and he was labelled as a
Freemason, but one of his books, ''
Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments'', was recently reprinted and introduced to Iranians.
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See also
* History of Iran
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* History of India
* Academy of Persian Language and Literature
The Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL) ( fa, فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی, ''Farhangestân-e Zabân-o Adab-e Fârsi'') is the regulatory body for the Persian language, headquartered in Tehran, Iran. Formerly know ...
* List of English words of Persian origin
This article will be concerned with loanwords, that is, words in English that derive from Persian, either directly, or more often, from one or more intermediary languages.
Many words of Persian origin have made their way into the English lang ...
* ArchNet
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, MIT/UT Austin's archive of Iranian architectural documents
* Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran
Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicraft Organization ( fa, وزارت میراث فرهنگی، گردشگری و صنایع دستی ایران, ''Vâzart-e Miras-e Ferhengi-ye, Gârdâshigâri-ye vâ Sânai'-ye Dâsti-ye Iran'') is ...
* Indian architecture
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* Mughal architecture
* Persian language in South Asia The Persian language in the Indian subcontinent ( fa, ), before the British colonisation, was the region's lingua franca and a widely used official language in North India. The language was brought into South Asia by various Turkic and Afghan d ...
* Persian name
A Persian name or Iranian name consists of a given name (Persian: نام ''Nâm''), sometimes more than one, and a surname (نام خانوادگی).
Given names
Since the Muslim conquest of Persia, some names in Iran have been derived from A ...
* Persian phonology
* Persianate
A Persianate society is a society that is based on or strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art and/or identity.
The term "Persianate" is a neologism credited to Marshall Hodgson. In his 1974 book, ''The Venture of I ...
* Persian Romanization schemes
* Kanoun-e-Banovan
References
Sources
*Aḥmad Eqtedāri, Kārvān-e ʿomr: ḵāṭerāt-e siāsi-farhangi-ehaftād sāl ʿomr, Tehran, 1993, pp. 25–26, 205.
*Ḥasan-ʿAli Ḥekmat, "Moḵtaṣari dar šarḥ-e zendegi-e ostād ʿAli-Aṣḡar Ḥekmat", unpublished pamphlet, Tehran, 1981.
*Hormoz Ḥekmat, interviewed by A. Milani, 23 April 2002.
*Bāqer Kāẓemi, in Iraj Afšār, ed., Nāmahā-ye Tehrān, Tehran, 2000, pp. 416–27.
*Komisiun-e melli-e Yunesko (UNESCO) dar Īrān, Īrān-šahr, 2 vols., Tehran, 1963–64. Reżā Moʿini, ed., Čehrahā-yeāšnā, Tehran, 1965.
*United States Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Washington, D.C., 1993.
*Mehdi Walāʾi, "Fehrest-e nosaḵ-e vaqfi-e ʿAli-Aṣḡar Ḥekmat be Āstān-e qods-e rażavi,"ṟ Nosḵahā-ye ḵaṭṭi V, 1967, pp. 1–7.
External links
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Iran and India relations span centuries marked by meaningful interactions, according to renowned Iranian Scholar, Dr. Mohammad Ajam.
"History of Persian or Parsi Language"
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*[https://books.google.com/books?id=p9YPAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India office, Volume 1'' (1903)]
1892 births
1980 deaths
Government ministers of Iran
History of India
Iranian democracy activists
Iranian governors
University of Paris alumni
Ambassadors of Iran to India
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