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Hossein Ziai (July 6, 1944 – August 24, 2011) was a professor of Islamic philosophy and Iranian Studies and held the inaugural Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies at UCLA until his passing. He received his B.S. in Intensive Physics and Mathematics from Yale University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Islamic Philosophy from Harvard University in 1976. Prior to his position at UCLA, Hossein Ziai taught at Tehran University, Sharif University, Harvard University, Brown University, and Oberlin College. As Director of Iranian Studies at UCLA where he taught since 1988, Hossein Ziai established an undergraduate major in Iranian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures--the first such degree in North America--and developed the strongest and most rigorous Iranian Studies program in the U.S. Ziai published eleven books on Islamic philosophy, numerous articles and encyclopedia entries, and as founding editor of Bibliotheca Iranica: Intellectual Traditions Series, published fourteen titles on a variety of subjects related to Iranian thought, literature and civilization. Beginning with his Ph.D. dissertation under the direction of Professor Muhsin Mahdi (d. 2007) in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Harvard, he focused his research and publications on elucidating the rationalist principle in Iranian Illuminationist philosophy and its founder, Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhravardi (1154-1191,) otherwise known as Sheikh al-Ishraq (Master of Illumination). In December 2010, Professor Hossein Ziai was elected President of Société Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabes et Islamiques (SIHSPAI), an international academic society for the study of Persian and Arabic Islamic philosophical and scientific heritages. ==Education== * Ph.D., Islamic Philosophy, Harvard University 1976. * B.S., Intensive Math and Physics, Yale University 1967. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hossein Ziai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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