Hamid Algar (born 1940) is a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He writes on Persian and Arabic literature and contemporary history of Iran, Turkey, the Balkans and Afghanistan. He served on the UC Berkeley faculty for 45 years (from 1965 to 2010). Algar remains an active scholar and his research has concentrated on the Islamic history of the Perso-Turkish world, with particular emphasis on Iranian Shi'ism during the past two centuries and the Naqshbandi Sufi order.[1][2] Algar is a Shia Muslim.[3][4]
Algar, who was born in England, first converted to Sunni Islam and later chose to follow Shia Islam. He has also translated books written by contemporary political Shiite theologians, like Ruhollah Khomeini's book Velayat-e Faqih and books written by Ali Shariati, Murteza Mutahhari and Mahmoud Taleqani.[5] For his enthusiastic promotion of Khomeinism as well as his heroic admiration for Ayatollah Khomeini, National Review dubbed him as "Khomeini’s Favorite American".[6][7][8][9]
^"Professor Hamid Algar, the Distinguished Shia Muslim Scholar in USA". Imam Reza Network. Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
^Behnegarsoft.com (2010-11-22). "دکتر حامد الگار كيست". جهان نيوز (in Persian). Retrieved 2019-05-18.
^Caschetta, A.J (6 June 2020). "'Happy Birthday, Hamid Algar' — Khomeini's Favorite American Turns 80". National Review. Archived from the original on 7 February 2021.
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of Muhammad bin ‘Abd al-Wahhab and other Islamic schools of thought". HamidAlgar and Khaled Abou El Fadl believe, during the 1960s and 70s, Wahhabism...
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one source—Hamid Dabashi) to be the "only reliable" translation", and that is approved by the Iranian government, is that of HamidAlgar, an English-born...
HamidAlgar from his introduction to Social Justice in Islam by Sayyid Qutb, translated by John Hardie, translation revised and introduction by Hamid...
that all forms of Islam except Wahhabism were deviation. Shia critic HamidAlgar argued in 2002 that Saudi government had "discreetly concealed" this...
Safawid Era "Iran ix. Religions in Iran (2) Islam in Iran (2.3) Shiʿism in Iran Since the Safavids: Safavid Period", Encyclopædia Iranica by HamidAlgar...
List of Persian poets and authors Persian literature Persian mysticism HamidAlgar Rahim Arbab William Chittick Badiozzaman Forouzanfar Hossein Elahi Ghomshei...
ghazals. Ruhollah Khomeini's brother was known by name Nureddin Hindi. Algar, Hamid (2010). "A short biography". In Koya, Abdar Rahman (ed.). Imam Khomeini:...
Islamic radicalism and socialism.[clarification needed] According to HamidAlgar, Shariati was the number one ideologue of the Islamic revolution. Despite...
Ruhollah (1981). Algar, Hamid (ed.). Islam and Revolution : Writing and Declarations of Imam Khomeini. Translated by Algar, Hamid. Berkeley, CA: Mizan...
Becker, Miriam Cooke, Maxime Rodinson, Annemarie Schimmel, Bernard Lewis, HamidAlgar, and Muhammad Hamidullah. Raja Adal (2006). "Constructing transnational...
Divān of Hafez. According to Professor of Persian and Islamic studies HamidAlgar, Sudi is "perhaps the most prominent of all Ottoman Persianists". Sudi...
Safawid Era "Iran ix. Religions in Iran (2) Islam in Iran (2.3) Shiʿism in Iran Since the Safavids: Safavid Period", Encyclopædia Iranica by HamidAlgar...
"Introduction". Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Translated by HamidAlgar. Berkeley: Mizan Press. 1980. "Constitution. Iran (Islamic Republic of)...
"slaughtering not less than 15,000 people" according to Khomeini translator HamidAlgar. However, in 1971 a guerrilla attack on a gendarmerie post (where three...
questioned the fundamental tendencies of the revolution," according to HamidAlgar, a supporter of Khomeini. The prestige of Khomeini and the hostage taking...
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