Mostafa Malekian ( fa, مصطفی ملکیان; born 1 June 1956 in
Shahreza
Shahreza ( fa, شهرضا, also Romanized as Shahrezā and Shahriza; formerly Komsheh, then Qomsheh (Persian: ), also Romanized as Kowmsheh, and Qowmsheh) is a city and capital of Shahreza County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its ...
) is a prominent Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editor. He is working on a project called ''Rationality and Spirituality''. His most important book, that is about
spirituality and
wisdom
Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to contemplate and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowle ...
, is ''A Way to Freedom''.
Malekian was formerly a professor of philosophy at
Tehran University and
Tarbiat Modares University.
See also
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Intellectual Movements in Iran
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Iranian philosophy
Iranian philosophy ( Persian: فلسفه ایرانی) or Persian philosophy can be traced back as far as to Old Iranian philosophical traditions and thoughts which originated in ancient Indo-Iranian roots and were considerably influenced by Zar ...
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Abdolkarim Soroush
Abdolkarim Soroush ( ; born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 1945; fa, حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian Islamic thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar, public intellectual, and a former professor of phil ...
External links
Mostafa Malekian: Spirituality, Siyasat-Zadegi and (A)political Self-Improvement, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, pp. 279–311, Fall 2014
Muslim reformers
21st-century Iranian philosophers
Iranian translators
Academic staff of the University of Tehran
Academic staff of Tarbiat Modares University
1956 births
Living people
Hermeneutists
University of Tabriz alumni
Iranian Shia scholars of Islam
Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies of the University of Tehran alumni
20th-century Iranian philosophers
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