Heshmat Moayyad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Heshmat Moayyad

Persian writer and scholar (d. 2018)

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1927

Place of Birth: Hamadan, Hamadan Province, Iran

Date of Death: 25-Jun-2018

Profession: writer, translator, academic

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Heshmat Moayyad (Persian: ???? ????) was a Persian writer, translator and the founder of University of Chicago's Persian program.Moayyad was the professor at the Chicago University for more than 40 years.
He also translated modern Persian literature into English and German.
Moayyad organized major conferences at UChicago on the Indo-Persian poet Amir Khosrow (died 1325) and on the poet Parvin Etesâmi (died 1941), as well as the first academic conference about “The Baha'i Faith and Islam” in 1984 at McGill University in Montreal.