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Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (8 June, 1896 - November 13, 1966) was an Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
ian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian.

Nafisi was born in Tehran
Tehran

Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran, and the administrative center of Tehran Province. Tehran is a sprawling city at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with an immense network of highways unparalleled in Western Asia....
, where he conducted numerous research projects on Iranian culture, literature and poetry. He published many seminal articles on Iran, Persian literary texts and Sufism
Sufism

Sufi is generally understood to be the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a ufi , though some adherents of the tradition reserve this term only for those practitioners who have attained the goals of the Sufi tradition....
 and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide.






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Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (8 June, 1896 - November 13, 1966) was an Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
ian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian.

Nafisi was born in Tehran
Tehran

Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran, and the administrative center of Tehran Province. Tehran is a sprawling city at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with an immense network of highways unparalleled in Western Asia....
, where he conducted numerous research projects on Iranian culture, literature and poetry. He published many seminal articles on Iran, Persian literary texts and Sufism
Sufism

Sufi is generally understood to be the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a ufi , though some adherents of the tradition reserve this term only for those practitioners who have attained the goals of the Sufi tradition....
 and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. He died in a Russian hospital in Tehran
Tehran

Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran, and the administrative center of Tehran Province. Tehran is a sprawling city at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with an immense network of highways unparalleled in Western Asia....
.

Saeed Nafisi's relatives include Moadeb Naficy, the guardian and doctor of the Shah of Iran (Reza Pahlavi); and Moadeb's son Habib Naficy, a senior statesman, founder of Iran's labor laws, U.S.-Iran Attache, and founder of multiple technical universities in Tehran, as well as acclaimed author, Azar Nafisi, a neice of his.

Nafisi taught in Tehran University, Kabul University
Kabul University

The Kabul University is located in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. It was founded in 1931 but officially opened for classes in 1932. Kabul University is currently attended by approximately 7,000 students, of which 1,700 are females....
, Cairo University
Cairo University

Cairo University is an institute of higher education located in Giza, Egypt. The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought....
 and San José State University
San José State University

San Jos? State University is the founding campus of what became the California State University system. The sprawling 154-acre campus in the center of Silicon Valley has an enrollment of about 30,000 students and provides more graduates working in the high tech region than any other college or university....
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External links

  • - (excerpt from Nafisi, S., The Aryan Path, June 1950) republished in Theosophy World June 2004.


See also

  • Persian literature
    Persian literature

    Persian literature spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources has been within historical greater Iran including present-day Iran as well as reigions of Central Asia where the Persian language has been the national language through history....
  • Iranology