Ali-Asghar Hekmat

Ali-Asghar Hekmat
Ali-Asghar Hekmat
Born	16 June 1892; Shiraz, Sublime State of Iran
Died	25 August 1980 (aged 88); Tehran, Iran
Political party	National Front
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Ali-Asghar Hekmat-e Shirazi (Persian: علی‌اصغر حکمت شیرازی; 16 June 1892 – 25 August 1980), or Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan-e Hekmat-e Shirazi (میرزا علی‌اصغر خان حکمت شیرازی), was an Iranian politician, diplomat and author who served as the Iranian minister of foreign affairs, minister of justice, and minister of culture during the reigns of Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah. Hekmat was an Iranian ambassador to India and wrote multiple books about Indian history and culture. Following the 1979 Iranian revolution, his books and works were ignored and he was labelled as a Freemason, but one of his books, Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments, was reprinted and introduced to Iranians.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The majority of Iran's contemporary landmarks, such as the University of Tehran campus, Museum of Ancient Iran (later known as the Iran National Museum), and the revered tombs of Ferdowsi, Hafez, and Saadi, were constructed under his leadership.^[4]

References

^ Ajam, Mohammad (29 April 2013). "Persian Inscriptions on the Indian Monuments". parssea. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
^ "Iran, India relations span centuries marked by meaningful interactions". IRNA English. 22 January 2014.
^ "رایزنی ج.ا.ا در ژاپن (News); Japanese: インドの遺跡におけるペルシア語の碑文". tokyo.icro.ir. Archived from the original on 23 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
^ Sardari, Mohadeseh Salari (2024). "Andre Godard and Maxime Siroux: Disentangling the Narrative of French Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Iran". Iranian Studies. 57 (2): 5. doi:10.1017/irn.2024.10.

Aḥmad Eqtedāri, Kārvān-e ʿomr: ḵāṭerāt-e siāsi-farhangi-e haftād sāl ʿomr, Tehran, 1993, pp. 25–26, 205.
Ḥasan-ʿAli Ḥekmat, "Moḵtaṣar-i dar šarḥ-e zendegi-e ostād ʿAli-Aṣḡar-e Ḥekmat", unpublished pamphlet, Tehran, 1981.
Hormoz Ḥekmat, interviewed by Abbās Milāni, 23 April 2002.
Bāqer Kāẓemi, in Iraj Afšār, ed., Nāma-hā-ye Tehrān, Tehran, 2000, pp. 416–427.
Komision-e melli-e Yunesko (UNESCO) dar Īrān, Īrān-šahr, 2 vols., Tehran, 1963–64. Reżā Moʿini (ed.), Čehra-hā-ye āšenā, Tehran, 1965.
United States Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–60, Washington, D.C., 1993.
Mehdi Walāʾi, "Fehrest-e nosaḵ-e vaqfi-e ʿAli-Aṣḡar Ḥekmat be Āstān-e Qods-e Rażavi", Nosḵa-hā-ye ḵaṭṭi V, 1967, pp. 1–7.

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