Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani


Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani was an Iranian scholar and university professor.

Biography

Born in Mashhad, Iran, on 5 September 1926, he held a Ph.D. in Persian Literature and a Ph.D. in Islamic Theology from Tehran University, where he was a professor at the School of Literature and at the School of Theology between 1962 and 1985. Beginning in 1987, he taught Islamic sciences, Islamic literature, advanced Arabic and Persian Sufi texts, and Islamic philosophy at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Mahdavi Damghani also taught at the Autonomous University of Madrid for three years.

Selected works

He is the author of over 300 articles in scholarly journals and of several books including:Kashf al-Haqa'iq Al-Majdi Nasmat al Sahar - A History of Arab Shi`a Poets, Three volumes The Sources of Arabic Poems in the Kalilah wa DimnaThe Garden of Light: An Anthology of Sana`i's HadiqahKashf al-Haqa'iq 2
  • The sources of Arabic Poems in “Marzban-Nameh”, 1970s
  • “Haasele Owqat”, 2002–2003
  • Tarjumaye Ashaar Arabiye “Saadi” beh Farsi, 2004
  • Tchahr Maqaleh dar bareh “Amir-al-mumenin Ali Aleyh-al-salam”, 2004–2005
  • Maqalati “Dar Hadithe Digaran”, 2005
  • Taswib Aghlate Tchapi Tafsir, “Kashf-al-asrar”, 2007
  • Dar babe “Khizr”, 2007
  • “The Noble Princess Shahrbanu” The mother of the Imam Ali b. al-Husain al-Sajjad” Mirror of heritage, 2009
  • “In the Memory of Companions and Rain Drops“, A collection of his various articles, 2011
  • Yad-E-Azizan Dar Bargri-Zan, 2015
  • Divan Khazen, 2015
  • Essays in Islamic Philology, History and Philosophy, 2016