Hamid Algar
Hamid Algar (* 1940 in England ) is an Anglo-American Islamic scholar and Professor Emeritus of Persian and Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley , where he taught from 1965 to 2010, and he is a translator from Arabic to Turkish and Persian books, including a biography of Khomeini .
life and work
Hamid Algar studied Islamic Studies at Cambridge University , where he received his doctorate in 1965. Since 1965 he has taught Tafsir , Sufism (Naqshbandi Sufi orders), Shiism , the history of Islam in Iran , Arabic , Persian and Turkish literature at the University of California at Berkeley . His interests extend to the regions of Central Asia , India , Kurdistan , Turkey and the Balkans .
He translated Ali Schariati , Morteza Motahhari , Mahmud Taleghani and the Velayat-e faqih ( Persian ولایت فقیه, DMG welāyat-e faqīh ) or Persian حکومت اسلامی, DMG Ḥokūmat-e eslāmī by Ayatollah Chomeini (1902–1989), the Shiite scholar and political and spiritual leader of the Islamic revolution and the subsequent Islamic Republic of Iran in 1978–1989, under the title Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist into English and annotated it.
He was a contributor to the Cambridge History of Iran and is the author of more than a hundred articles in the Encyclopædia Iranica .
Awards
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Tehran
Works (selection)
- Imam Abu Hamid Ghazali
- Jesus in the Qur'an
- Roots of The Islamic Revolution in Iran
- Sufism: Principles and Practice
- Surat Al-Fatiha: Foundation of the Qur'an
- The Sunna: Its Obligatory and Exemplary Aspects
- Wahhabism: A Critical Essay
- Religion and State in Iran: 1785-1906 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969)
- Mirza Malkum Khan: A Biographical Study in Iranian Modernism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973)
- The Path of God's Bondsmen from Origin to Return by Najm al-Din Razi , known as Daya (Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1982) (translation from Persian with introduction and notes)
- Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini (Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1981) (translation and annotations)
- Imam Khomeini: Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist - English translation with notes by Hamid Algar
literature
- David Horowitz : The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, 2006, ISBN 0-89526-003-4 ( Ebook, 2012 )
Web links
- Hamid Algar - Islamic Heritage at Encyclopædia Iranica
- campus-watch.org: A Conversation with Hamid Algar
- al-islam.org: Dr. Hamid Algar
- al-islam.org: Imam Khomeini: A Short Biography
- Short biography of Algars on the website of the Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi (TDVİA) with a list of the TDVİA articles he wrote (Turkish)
References and comments
- ↑ Cf. Imam Khomeini - Life, Thought, Legacy in the Google Book Search
- ↑ The work is an important source on Islamic fundamentalism in Iran and on theocratic rule in general.
- ↑ cambridge.org
- ↑ campus-watch.org: A Conversation with Hamid Algar
- ^ Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Algar, Hamid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American scholar of Islam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | England |