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	Topics Said Nafisi Topic Home Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) was an IranIran 'Throughout history, Iran has been of great geostrategic importance because of its central location in Eurasia.... ian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian. Nafisi was born in TehranTehran Tehran , population 7,160,094 , and a land area of 658 square kilometers, is the capital city of Iran and the center of Tehr... , where he conducted numerous research projects on Iranian culture, literature and poetry. He published many seminal articles on Iran, Persian literary texts and SufismSufism Sufism or *Irfan* is a mystic tradition of Islam.... and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. He died in a Russian hospital in TehranTehran Overview Tehran , population 7,160,094 , and a land area of 658 square kilometers, is the capital city of Iran and the center of Tehr... . 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. Nafisi taught in Tehran University, Kabul UniversityKabul University Kabul University is located in Kabul, Afghanistan and was founded 1931, opened 1932 and formally established in 1947.... , Cairo UniversityCairo University Cairo University is an institute of higher education located in Giza, Egypt.... and San José State UniversitySan José State University San Jos State University, commonly shortened to San Jos State and SJSU, is the founding campus of what became th... . External links - (excerpt from Nafisi, S., The Aryan Path, June 1950) republished in Theosophy World June 2004. See also Persian literaturePersian literature Persian literature spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost.... Iranology