Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy
- Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy
Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy (in Persian: انجمن شاهنشاهی فلسفه ایران) was founded in Iran during the Pahlavi era by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a Professor of History of Science and Philosophy at Tehran University who also served for several years as President of Aryamehr University of Technology in Iran. He was also the first president of the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy. The Academy was the first academic institution to be founded upon the principles of philosophical Traditionalism.
William Chittick, who is renowned scholar of Sufi thought, literature and Islamic philosophy, completed his PhD in Persian literature at Tehran University in 1974. He then taught comparative religion at the Humanities Department at Tehran's Aryamehr Technical University and left Iran just before the revolution in 1979. He was also for a short period before the revolution, an assistant professor at the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy.He has also served as assistant editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and is currently professor of Religious Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Dr. Chittick has had collaborations with Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Allameh Tabatabaei on several important projects.
Links
* [http://www.irip.ir/english/default.asp The Iranian Institute of Philosophy (former Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy]
* [http://www.nasrfoundation.org Nasr Foundation]
* [http://www.amiscorbin.com/textes/anglais/Of%20Apophatic%20Theology%20as%20Antidote%20to%20Nihilism.htm Antidote]
* [http://www.mindspring.com/~altafb/sufipers.html Nimatullahi in social perspective]
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