Researchers

Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926), Professor of Persian at Cambridge University, displayed a remarkable interest in the metaphysical thought of the Iranians. Browne is best known for his four-volume magnum opus,…

R. A. Nicholson (1868-1945) in all his years of the study of Persian and Arabic never once visited the Middle East and never learned to speak the languages, whose literatures…

“Abd Al-Hossein Zarrinkoub” (1922-1999) is probably the most important literary figure, writer and translator whose wide range of research and works in the fields of Rumi and literary studies are…

Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003), who spent most of her life reading and living with Islamic and particularly Sufi texts from the perspective of a believer and an academic, introduced the thoughts…

Afzal Iqbal (1919-94) was born in Lahore, attended the Government College there and then the University of the Punjab. After the partition of India, he became a Pakistani citizen. Afzal…

Arberry is a public intellectual, well known in the Anglo-American world. Born into a poor and puritanical Christian family, A. J. Arberry (1905-69) lost his faith largely as a result…