Dariush Shayegan (Persian: داریوش شایگان; 24 January 1935 – 22 March 2018) was one of the most consequential thinkers of contemporary Iran and the Near East.
داریوش شایگان Dariush Shayegan | |
|---|---|
 Shaygan in 2013 | |
| Born | 24 January 1935 |
| Died | 22 March 2018 (aged 83) Tehran, Iran |
| Occupation(s) | Philosopher and former university professor |
Life and career
editHe was born in Tabriz from a Shia Iranian Azeri father and a Georgian Sunni mother; his mother descended from an aristocratic family from Georgia.[2] Shayegan studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris. He was a Professor of Sanskrit and Indian religions at the Tehran University.[3] Besides Persian, Shayegan wrote in French and English, and spoke fluently Georgian, Russian, and Turkish (both Ottoman and Azeri).[citation needed]. Having spent his teens at boarding school in Great Britain, Shayegan subsequently lived, during his formative years, in Geneva, where he read at the Université de Genève French literature, philosophy, Sanskrit, and political science.[4] Shayegan received his doctorate (doctorat de troisième cycle) at the Sorbonne under the tutelage of his Doktorvater Henry Corbin, with a thesis entitled: Les relations de l'hindouisme et du soufisme d'après le "Majma’ al-Baḥrayn" de Dārā Shokūh.
Shayegan has written many pioneering works on the epistemological specificities of eastern and western cultures and the possibility of dialogue between them. He was the founding director of the Iranian Center for the Studies of Civilizations, which launched its work in 1977 with an international symposium on the "dialogue between civilizations," a concept that has been selectively appropriated by the former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. In 2009 Shayegan was awarded the inaugural Global Dialogue Prize,[5] an international award for "outstanding achievements in the advancement and application of intercultural value research", in recognition of his dialogical conception of cultural subjectivity (for a statement of the award committee and a scholarly presentation (including a fairly complete bibliography) of Shayegan's contribution to intercultural dialogue, see the (copyrighted) webpages of this award.)
Personal life
editHis son, M. Rahim Shayegan, is an American historian and expert in history of ancient Iran.[6]
Death
editShayegan died on 22 March 2018, at the age of 83 in Tehran.[7]
Works
editMain works by Shayegan:
- Hindouisme et Soufisme, une lecture du «Confluent des Deux Océans», Éditions de la Différence, Paris 1979, 2nd edition, Albin Michel, Paris
- Qu'est-ce qu'une révolution religieuse? Presses d'aujourd'hui, Paris 1982, deuxième édition, Bibliothèque Albin Michel des idées, Paris,1991.
- Le regard mutilé, Schizophrénie culturelle : pays traditionnels face à la modernité, Albin English Translation : Cultural Schizophrenia, Islamic Societies Confronting the West, Translated from the French by John Howe, Saqi books, London 1992. Also published by Syracuse University Press, 1997.
- Henry Corbin, La topographie spirituelle de l'Islam iranien, Éditions de la Différence, Paris, 1990
- Les illusions de l'identité, Éditions du Félin, Paris, 1992
- Sous les ciels du monde, Entretiens avec Ramin Jahanbegloo, Éditions du Félin,1992
- Au-delà du miroir, Diversité culturelle et unité des valeurs, Editions de l'Aube, 2004
- La lumière vient de l'Occident, Le réenchantement du monde et la pensée nomade, L'aube, essai. Paris, 2001, troisième édition, 2005, quatriéme édition, essai poche, 2008
- Terre de mirages, avec la collaboration de Maryam Askari, La collection Regards croisés, Éditions de l'Aube, Paris, 2004
Works on Shayegan:
- Mehrzad Borujerdi : Iranian Intellectuals and the West, Syracuse University Press, 1996
- Afsaneh Gächter, Daryush Shayegan, interkulturell gelesen, Interkulturelle Bibliothek, Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2005
- Dariush Borbor, the well-known Iranian architect and urban planner has discussed his seventy years of intimate friendship with Shayegan and his family in an interview, 2018[8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Jahanbegloo, Ramin (2021). "Shayegan, Dariush". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.
- ^ Jahanbegloo, Ramin (2021). "Shayegan, Dariush". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.
Dariush Shayegan (Dāryūsh Shāyigān, 1935–2018), an eminent Iranian comparative philosopher and cultural critic, was born in Tabriz on 2 February 1935 to an Iranian Shīʿī Azeri merchant father and a Georgian Sunnī mother, who traced her ancestry back to an aristocratic family in Georgia.
- ^ Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad (2000). "MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI, Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1996). Pp 256. -". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 32 (4): 565–571. doi:10.1017/S0020743800002853. S2CID 163126695 – via Cambridge Core.
- ^ داریوش بوربور از هفتاد سال خاطراتش با داریوش شایگان می‌گوید؛ ژنو، شهری که شایگان در آن دوباره متولد شد»، خبرگزاری ایلنا، 2/13/ 2018 http://www.ilna.ir/بخش-فرهنگ-هنر-6/592847-ژنو-شهری-که-شایگان-در-آن-دوباره-متولد-.
- ^ "www.globaldialogueprize.org". www.globaldialogueprize.org.
- ^ "پسر شایگان رئیس کرسی ایران‌شناسی دانشگاه کالیفرنیا شد" [Son of Dariush Shayegan was appointed to the position of Head of the Department of Iranian Studies]. Asriran (in Persian). April 24, 2014. Archived from the original on April 26, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2024.
- ^ "داریوش شایگان درگذشت". Mehr News Agency (in Persian). March 22, 2018. Archived from the original on March 22, 2018. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
- ^ "داریوش شایگان درگذشت، بازنشر گفت‌وگوی داریوش بوربور از ۷۰ سال خاطراتش با شایگان". news.gooya.com.
External links
edit- Letters to future generations, original texts selected and compiled by Federico Mayor in collaboration with Roger-Pol Droit, Cultures of Peace/UNESCO Publishing, 1999 ISBN 92-3-103641-6.
- The next chapter
- Simon F. O'Li (Oliai), The next chapter. Atypical conversations with Daryush * Shayegan on the impact of ideology in contemporary Iranian history, The Iranian, October 27, 2003.