Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Iranian Islamic scholar
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Place of Birth: Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
About Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
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- Ahmad Mahdavi-Damghani is an Iranian scholar and university professor. Born in Mashad, Iran on September 4, 1926, he holds 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 1962-1985.
- He has been teaching at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania since 1987.
- He teaches Islamic Sciences, Islamic Literature, Advanced Arabic and Persian Sufi texts, and Islamic Philosophy.
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- Mahdavi Damghani also taught in Spain at Autonomada University of Madrid for three years.
- In 2016 a collection of essays (Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy) with contributions from some of the greatest names in Islamic Studies was dedicated to him as a Festschrift—one of many but the first in the English language.
- Professor Mahdavi Damghani is perhaps one of the greatest scholars of Arabic and Persian poetry, poetics, philology, logic, and jurisprudence in the 20th century as his many publications are a testament.
- Professor Damghani's photographic memory is well-cited and heralded in the fields he has touched so deeply—and is a like of which the world rarely comes across cross-referencing French, Persian, and Arabic simultaneously, page numbers and all.
- The late Wolfhart P.
- Heinrichs, himself an incontrovertible giant in the field of Arabic philology once commented: "when we have a question we go to the Ustad al-Asatid (expert for the experts)." His youngest daughter is Dr.
- Farideh Mahdavi Damghani who is a multi-lingual translator, publisher and lecturer (Order of Merit of the Italian Republic [Commander] in 2006), (Honorary Citizen of the cities of Florence 2004 and Ravenna 2005 - Italy).
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