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 Iran.

Life

After graduating from high school in

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and receiving his BS in Law in

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, he set off for France to continue his legal studies and to take his MS and PhD. Afterwards, he returned to Iran and began teaching Literature and Law at the

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. From 1348 (1969) until two years after the Iran's Revolution in 1978, he taught legal courses and comparative literature at the faculties of Law and Literature of Tehran University. He was founder of Hasti magazine and at the same time he wrote some articles in many of Iranian literary magazines such as Negin, Sokhan and Yaghma. In two last decades of his life, Nodooshan was a journalist of Ettelaat newspaper and International Information newspaper, which were published simultaneously in

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and

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. Nodooshan was one of the most prolific contemporary writers and researchers, who was an author books, translator with more than 70 works, in Iranian literature and culture, and also hundreds of articles in this area.

Work

Nodooshan was the author of about 70 books on culture, society and literature. His versatile writings often reach over themes from "''Morality and Literature''" to "''

Dialogue Among Civilizations Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami introduced the idea of Dialogue Among Civilizations as a response to Samuel P. Huntington's theory of a Clash of Civilizations. The term was initially used by Austrian philosopher Hans Köchler who in 1972 ...

''". His works include: *Don't we forget Iran (ايران را از ياد نبريم) *Good traits of Human Rights in South countries, a reassessment (ذکر مناقب حقوق بشر در جهان سوم) *The Stories’ Story, On

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and Isfandiar in

Shahnameh The ''Shahnameh'' or ''Shahnama'' ( fa, شاهنامه, Šāhnāme, lit=The Book of Kings, ) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,00 ...

(داستان داستان‌ها، رستم و اسفندیار در شاهنامه) *Life, élan and decease of the

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(زندگی و مرگ پهلوانان در شاهنامه) He gave lectures at 40 universities in over 20 countries, including Canada,The Iranian Association at the University of Toronto (IAUT
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Accessed 10 January 2011 all are published in both English and French. He published his autobiography, an unorthodox event in Persian writing. It is also believed that Nadooshan's travel accounts brought this genre back to life in Persian literature, namely his "''Siren of Phoenix"''—logs of journeys to various countries—and "''Liberty of Statue"''—from travels to the United States. He remained active after his retirement from academic life, and founded the

Ferdowsi Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi ( fa, ; 940 – 1019/1025 CE), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (), was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a sin ...

cultural centre (''Farhangsara-ye-Ferdosi'') and the quarterly "''Hasti''" (''Universe, Being'') (1993).

References

External links

Eslami Nodushan Website
(Persian) 1924 births 2022 deaths Iranian male poets Iranian academics Researchers of Persian literature Iranian literary critics Shahnameh Researchers People from Yazd Province University of Paris alumni {{Iran-writer-stub