Ashk Dahlén

Ashk Dahlén

Ashk Peter Dahlén (b. 1972 in Tehran) is a researcher in Iranian Studies and translator of Persian literature into Swedish. He received his doctoral degree from Uppsala University in 2002 and his thesis "Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity" has been published by Routledge. He is the author of several articles on Sufism and Persian literature and has translated classical Sufi authors such as Rumi, Hafez and Fakhruddin 'Iraqi into Swedish.

Ashk Dahlén is at the present a researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. He is a member of the Swedish Society for Religious Studies, The Swedish Writers’ Union and The Iranian Academy of Philosophy.

Writings (in English)

* "Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity: Legal Philosophy in Contemporary Iran", New York, 2003.
* Transcendent Hermeneutics of Supreme Love : Rumi's Concept of Mystical "Appropriation", "Orientalia Suecana", Uppsala, 2003.
* The Holy Fool in Medieval Islam: The Qalandariyat of Fakhr al-din Araqi, "Orientalia Suecana", Uppsala, 2004.
* Sirat al-mustaqim: One or Many? Religious Pluralism Among Muslim Intellectuals in Iran, "The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought", ed. Ibrahim Abu-Rabi, Oxford, 2006.
* The Hermeneutics of Post-modern Islam: The Case of ‘Abdol-Karim Sorush, "Religious Texts in Iranian Languages", red. Fereydun Vahman och Claus V. Pedersen, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, 2007.

Writings (in French)

* Droit(s) chemin(s). Le pluralisme religieux chez les intellectuels iraniens, "Les mondes chiites et l'Iran", dir. Sabrina Mervin, Paris, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.ashkdahlen.com/index.php?id=15 Ashk Dahlén's personal website]

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NAME = Dahlén, Ashk
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Philosopher and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH = 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH = Tehran, Iran
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