Upcoming Events February 4, 2007 Dr. Nasrollah Pourjavady    Dr. Nasrollah Pourjavady, over the last thirty years, has written some 20 books as well as over a hundred essays and articles in the fields of Islamic mysticism, philosophy, and Persian literature.    As the founding-director of Iran University Press, the largest academic publishing house in Iran, he supervised the publication of some 1,200 academic books and 11 periodicals in Persian, English, French, and German for 24 years, until the spring of 2004. He personally edited two of these journals, Nashr-e Danesh and Ma'aref.   Date: Sunday February 4, 2007 Time: 2 to 5 PM Gathering address: St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church 11 Ogden Court Huntington Station, NY 11746 Tel: 631-793-9928 Click for direction.

Upcoming Events

Please join us to welcome our guest speaker:

          Dr. Nasrollah Pourjavady

      Dr. Nasrollah Pourjavady was born in Tehran and received his early education there. He went to the United States in 1963 to study Western philosophy, and having obtained his BA in 1967, returned to Iran and earned his MA and PhD degrees from the University of Tehran. Subsequently he taught philosophy and mysticism at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, and then at the University of Tehran, where he still teaches as a full professor. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Colgate University (2002) and at the Gregorian University in Rome (2005).

    Over the last thirty years, Dr Pourjavady has written some 20 books as well as over a hundred essays and articles in the fields of Islamic mysticism, philosophy, and Persian literature. These include: a critical edition of Ahmad Ghazzali's Sawanih (1980) and its English translation (1986); Ru'yat-e mah dar asman (La vision de Dieu en theologie et mystique musulmane) (1996); Eshraq va erfan (2001) and Do mojadded (2002), which is a study of two key figures in the development of Islamic thought, Abu Hamid Ghazzali and Fakhruddin Razi. He was also the general editor of a monumental three-volume book on Iranian art and culture, The Splendour of Iran (2001). He has edited and introduced the works of several lesser known classical Iranian mystics and Persian poets, such as Abu'l-Hasan Busti, Abu Mansur Esfahani, Mobarakshah Marvirudi, Yar-Ali Tabrizi, and Awhad al-Din Razi.

    As the founding-director of Iran University Press, the largest academic publishing house in Iran, he supervised the publication of some 1,200 academic books and 11 periodicals in Persian, English, French, and German for 24 years, until the spring of 2004. He personally edited two of these journals, Nashr-e Danesh and Ma'aref. He is a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, which awarded him the Academy's Persian Literature Award in 2004. He received an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2005, and will spend the year 2006 as a research scholar at the Free University of Berlin.

                                              
 Some of the Dr. Pourjavdy's books:
                                                  
Kings of Love: The Poetry and History of the Ni'Matullahi Sufi Order by Nasrollah Pourjavady and Peter Lamborn Wilson (Textbook Binding - Jun 1985)

The Light of Sakina in Suhrawardi's Philosophy of Illumination by Nasrollah Pourjavady (Mass Market Paperback - Jun 1999)

The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady (Paperback - Jan 1988)

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