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Profil
| Derzeitige Stellung | Professor W-3 und Äquivalente |
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| Fachgebiet | Geschichte der Philosophie,Islamwissenschaft, Arabistik, Semitistik |
| Keywords | Sufism, philosophy, Persian literature |
Aktuelle Kontaktadresse
| Land | Iran |
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| Ort | Tehran |
| Universität/Institution | University of Tehran |
| Institut/Abteilung | Faculty of Literature and Human Science |
Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung
| Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidtke | Institut für Islamwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin |
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| Beginn der ersten Förderung | 01.07.2005 |
Programm(e)
| 2005 | Humboldt-Forschungspreis-Programm für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen |
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Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden
| Professor Nasrollah Pourjavady is one of today's leading experts on Islamic philosophy and mysticism. Over the last thirty years Pourjavady has maintained a prodigious output of scholarly articles and books in the fields of Islamic mysticism, philosophy and Persian literature. These include in-depth studies, comprehensive surveys, close comparative textual analyses, anthologies, translations from Persian into English, and critical editions of both Arabic and Persian texts. Many of these studies represent original and ground-breaking work in their respective fields. Pourjavady's comprehensive and in-depth surveys have made it possible to view the doctrines of Sufism within the wider context of the development of Islamic thought. One of his greatest contributions to scholarship worldwide in the field of Islamic studies has been his discovery of hitherto unknown but significant manuscripts, which he has made available through publication in either critical or facsimile editions. Professor Pourjavady started his academic education as student of Western and Islamic philosophy in San Francisco and Tehran, and his profound acquaintance with these different philosophical traditions left a very original imprint on his subsequent major field of research on Islamic mysticism and Persian Sufi literature. Among the various schools of Western philosophy, Pourjavady was mostly influenced by the modern German philosophers and their phenomenological approach. In his research on Sufism and Persian poetry, he applies this method to the objects of his investigation. Among different scholars who are in Iran, Nasrollah Pourjavady is representative of the thinkers who revitalize the heritage of Persian poetical literature. Although Pourjavady has a particular interest in love mysticism, the most dynamic and influential movement in the Persian mysticism and its literature, he has contributed more generally to the field of classical Sufism with his studies of lesser known mystics and publication of their works. In addition to his merits as a scholar, his reputation is also due to his contribution as a scholarly publisher in his capacity of founding director of Iran University Press (IUP). Having served in this position for almost 24 years, he was removed from it by elements within the Iranian government earlier this year, to the outrage of a great number of intellectuals and academics in Iran and abroad. Following the Iranian Revolution in 1978/79, the Iranian universities were closed and it was not until four years later that most universities were reopened. Pourjavady took the initiative of founding Iran University Press and invited the now unemployed professors and scholars to join him in the enterprise of composing and translating much needed textbooks for university students in their respective fields. IUP soon developed into an intellectual center for Iranian professors in virtually all academic fields who were accomodated in this newly founded institution. In this way Nasrollah Pourjavady was able to prevent a major brain drain from Iran during the years following the Iranian Revolution. In the last 24 years, Pourjavady has been able to publish over 1200 academic titles, most of which have became the textbooks of universities throughout Iran. More than ten academic journals in different fields (in humanities as well as basic sciences) have been published under his close supervision. |