Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (8 June 1896 - November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. Events 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St Silverius becomes Pope (probable Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. He was a prolific writer in Persian.
Nafisi was born in Tehran, where he conducted numerous research projects on Iranian culture, literature and poetry. Tehran (or Teheran) ( Persian: تهران Tehrān) is the capital and largest City of Iran, and the administrative center of He published many seminal articles on Iran, Persian literary texts and Sufism and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. Sufism ( تصوّف - taṣawwuf, Persian: صوفیگری sufigari, Turkish: tasavvuf, Urdu: تصوف He died in a Russian hospital in Tehran. Tehran (or Teheran) ( Persian: تهران Tehrān) is the capital and largest City of Iran, and the administrative center of
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 University, Cairo University and San José State University. The University of Tehran ( also known as Tehran University and UT, is the oldest and largest university of Iran. Kabul University ( - Dāneshgāh-e Kābul; Pashto: دکابل پوهنتون Cairo University ( جامعة القاهرة, previously Egyptian University and later Fuʾād I University) is an institute of Higher education San José State University, commonly shortened to San José State and SJSU, is the founding campus of what became the California State University system
External links
- The Mystic Poetry of the Sufis - (excerpt from Nafisi, S. , The Aryan Path, June 1950) republished in Theosophy World June 2004.
See also
Persian literature ( spans two and a half millennia though much of the pre- Islamic material has been lost Iranian Studies ( ايران شناسیis an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the Iranian cultural region (or the Iranian "cultural continent"Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic