Laleh Bakhtiar

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Laleh Bakhtiar ( Persian لاله بختیار; born July 29, 1938 in Tehran ) is an Iranian - American Muslim writer, translator, and psychologist.

biography

Laleh Bakhtiar was born in Tehran to Abolghassem Bakhtiar and Helen Jeffreys. She grew up as a Catholic in the USA, but converted after meeting the Persian philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr (born in Tehran in 1933, later Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University ), whom she met as an adult in Tehran , to Islam . It was also Nasr who influenced her view of Islamic mysticism and philosophy . She received her PhD from Chatham College , Pennsylvania . She is the author of more than 25 books on Islam and its mysticism , Sufism . She is the first woman to translate the Koran into English . Her work aims to create understanding and tolerance between Muslims and non-Muslims. Bakhtiar has lived in Chicago for several years. She offers courses in Sufi psychology for the general public and advocates the rights of Muslim women. Among other things, she translated the text Fatima is Fatima by Ali Schariati into English.

Publications (selection)

  • Sufi : Expressions of the Mystical Quest , 1976/2004.
  • A glance at the life of Ayatullah Montazeri , 1984
  • Traditional Psychoethics and Personality Paradigm , 1993.
  • The Moral Healer's Handbook , 1994.
  • Moral Healing through the Most Beautiful Names , 1994.
  • Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools , 1996.
  • Encyclopedia of Muhammad's Women Companions , 1998.
  • Helen of Tus: Her Oddessy from Idaho to Iran , 2002.
  • ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrī ; Rabia Harris; Laleh Bakhtiar: The Risalah: principles of Sufism. [Chicago], Distributed by KAZI Publications 2002 ( worldcat.org )
  • Al-Ghazzali : His Psychology of the Greater Struggle , 2003.
  • Sufi Women: Angels in the Making , 1997.
  • Nader Ardalan, Laleh Bakhtiar: Sense of Unity. The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture . Kazi Publications, Chicago 2000, ISBN 978-1871031782
  • The Sublime Quran , transl. L. Bakhtiar, 2007.
  • The Sublime Quran: The misinterpretation of Chapter 4 Verse 34 , in: European Journal of Women's Studies , 18, 2011, pp. 431-439.

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Helen Jeffreys Bakhtiar (1905–1973), cf. Helen of Tus by Laleh Bakhtiar and Bakhtiari Rose
  2. ↑ Fatima is Fatima . Dr. Ali Shariati . Translated by: Laleh Bakhtiar, Ph.D. (iranchamber.com). - Cf. the German edition Ali Schariati: Fatima is Fatima. Islamic Renaissance No. 6. Bonn: Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran , 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Bakhtiar, Laleh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bahtijār, Lāla; Bahtiyār, Lāla; Bakhtiar, Laleh Mehree
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian-American writer, translator and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran