Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (Persian: سعید نفیسی; June 8, 1895 – November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian.
Nafisi was born in Tehran, where he conducted numerous research projects on Iranian culture, literature and poetry. He first emerged as a serious thinker when he joined Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani, Gholamreza Rashid-Yasemi and Abdolhossein Teymourtash to found one of the first literary magazines to be published in Iran, called Daneshkade, in 1918. He subsequently published many articles on Iran, Persian literary texts and Sufism and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. He died in a Russian hospital in Tehran.
Saeed Nafisi's relatives include Moadeb Naficy, the guardian and doctor of the Shah of Iran (Reza Pahlavi); and Moadeb's son Habib Nafisi (Naficy), a senior statesman, founder of Iran's labor laws, U.S.-Iran Attache, and founder of multiple technical universities in Tehran, Hamid Naficy, a noted scholar of Media and Cultural Studies, Siamak Naficy, an anthropologist, as well as acclaimed author, Azar Nafisi, a niece of his.
Nafisi taught in Tehran University, Kabul University, Cairo University and San José State University.
SaeedNafisi (also Naficy) (Persian: سعید نفیسی; June 8, 1895 – November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer...
the niece of a famous Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet SaeedNafisi. Azar Nafisi is best known for her 2003 book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir...
argued for the correctness of the variant yek peykar. Among these was SaeedNafisi, himself the author of an edition of the Gulistan (1962), who pointed...
Habib Nafisi (December 1908 – 1984) was the founder of Tehran Polytechnic (Amirkabir University of Technology) and Khaje nassir toosi University of technology...
Zoroaster to the Present Day Penguin UK, 6 nov. 2008 ISBN 0141903414 SaeedNafisi, Social and political history of Iran in the contemporary period p. 71...
Reza Shah Pahlavi: Policies as Shah, Britannica Online Encyclopedia. SaeedNafisi, Iran in the epoch of Pahlavi the first. Barry Rubin, Paved with Good...
him in more recent collections varies from about 1,200 (according to SaeedNafisi) to more than 2,000. Sceptical scholars point out that the entire tradition...
Hekmat, Mahmoud Hessabi, Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Ahmad Matin-Daftari, SaeedNafisi, Ebrahim Pourdavoud, Isa Sadiq, Zabihollah Safa, Ali Akbar Siassi, and...
"Muslih al-Din Abu Muhammad Abd-Allah ibn Musharrif." The Iranian scholar SaeedNafisi favoured this version of his full name. However, the majority of other...
and the State, 1870-1940, Published by University of Washington Press Nafisi, Saeed (1949), Derafsh-e Iran va Shir-o-Khoshid (The Banner of Iran and the...
Indian subcontinent. During intermediate studies, Shamim translated SaeedNafisi's Aākhri Yādgār-i-Nādir Shah into Urdu. He wrote his first play, Ākhri...
was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1944. He is related to Azar Nafisi, SaeedNafisi, and Habib Nafisi. His childhood interest was in photography and new technologies...
Saeed Jalili (Persian: سعید جلیلی; born 1 September 1965) is an Iranian conservative politician and diplomat who was secretary of the Supreme National...
Naficy (Persian: مجید نفیسی; born February 22, 1952), also spelled "Majid Nafisi" and "Madjid Nafissi," is an Iranian-American poet. He was the youngest...
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