Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
Dr. Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani is an Iranian scholar and university professor.
Born in Mashad, Iran on September 4, 1927, he holds a Ph.D. in Persian Literature and a Ph.D. in Islamic Theology from Tehran University where he was a Professor at the School of Literature and at the School of Theology between 1962-1985. He has been teaching at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania since 1987. He teaches Islamic Sciences, Islamic Literature, Advanced Arabic and Persian Sufi texts, and Islamic Philosophy. Dr. Mahdavi Damghani also taught in Spain at Autonomada University of Madrid for three years.Selected works
He is the author over 300 articles in scholarly journals and of several books including:
- Kashf al-Haqa'iq
- Al-Majdi
- Nasmat al Sahar - A History of Arab Shi`a Poets, Three volumes
- The Sources of Arabic Poems in the Kalilah wa Dimna
- The Garden of Light: An Anthology of Sana`i's Hadiqah
- Kashf al-Haqa'iq 2
- The sources of Arabic Poems in “Marzban-Nameh”, 1970’s
- “Haasele Owqat”, 2002-2003
- Tarjumaye Ashaar Arabiye “Saadi” beh Farsi, 2004
- Tchahr Maqaleh dar bareh “Amir-al-mumenin Ali Aleyh-al-salam”, 2004-2005
- Maqalati “Dar Hadithe Digaran”, 2005
- Taswib Aghlate Tchapi Tafsir, “Kashf-al-asrar”, 2007
- Dar babe “Khizr”, 2007
- “The Noble Princess Shahrbanu” The mother of the Imam Ali b. al-Husain al-Sajjad” Mirror of heritage, 2009
- “In the Memory of Companions and Rain Drops“, A collection of his various articles, 2011
- Yad-E-Azizan Dar Bargri-Zan, 2015
- Divan Khazen, 2015
- Essays in Islamic Philology, History and Philosophy, 2016
