Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (8 June 1896 - November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian.
Nafisi was born in Tehran, where he conducted numerous research projects on Iranian culture, literature and poetry. He published many seminal articles on Iran, Persian literary texts and Sufism and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. He died in a Russian hospital in Tehran.
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, as well as acclaimed author, Azar Nafisi, a niece of his.
Nafisi taught in Tehran University, Kabul University, Cairo University and San José State University.
External links
- The Mystic Poetry of the Sufis - (excerpt from Nafisi, S., The Aryan Path, June 1950) republished in Theosophy World June 2004.
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