Dr. Hossein Ziai (1944-2011) was a professor of Islamic and Iranian Studies, the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies, and Director of Iranian Studies at UCLA where he had taught since 1988. He received his Ph.D. in Islamic Philosophy from Harvard University in 1976 and had previously taught at Tehran and Sharif universities, Harvard, Brown and Oberlin College. Dr. Ziai published widely on Illuminationist philosophy and the “Persian Poetic Wisdom. He served as Chair of the 2010 Biennial Conference of the International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS).
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