Approaches to Iranian Philosophy with Dr. Javad Tabatabai
Department: Center for Persian Studies and Culture
Date and Time: May 12, 2021 - May 18, 2021 | 5:00 PM-5:00 PMEvent Location: Zoom/YouTube
Event Details
Please join us for five sessions with Dr. Javad Tabatabai about different approaches to Iranian philosophy and thought. These sessions will be uploaded into UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture's YouTube page.
Here are the five sessions and their dates:
Session I: Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 5:00 pm PST
Session II: Thursday, May 13, 2021, 5:00 pm PST
Session III: Friday, May 14, 2021, 5:00 pm PST
Session IV: Monday, May 17, 2021, 5:00 pm PST
Session V: Tuesday, May 18, 2021, 5:00 pm PST
He was Professor Emeritus and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Tehran. After pursuing studies in theology, law and philosophy, he earned his PhD (Doctorat d’État) in political philosophy from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, with a dissertation on Hegel’s political philosophy. He has been a guest fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, as well as at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University. Dr Tabatabai has published a dozen books on the history of political ideas in Europe and Iran. On 14 July 1995, he was decorated as a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
This project aims to collect information, from the earliest textual and archaeological evidence, including the Avesta and the Old Persian inscription, to numismatics about the birth and formation of Iranian identity. How the idea of Iran and the notion of Iranian people came to be formed is the first part of this research project. The second part discusses the cultural implications of Iranian identity and its reflection in medieval Persian, Arabic textual and numismatic evidence. By this time not only the idea of Iran, but Iranianess and it cultural attributes became visible. Furthermore, a specific Iranian political philosophical idea of the state had developed which historians, men of state and religious clerics discussed in their work.
These events are presented by UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture.