Amir Hossein Zekrgoo

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Amir Hossein Zekrgoo
Born1957 (age 6667)
Tehran, Iran
Occupation(s)Indologist, art historian, artist
RegionIndian mythology and iconography
Main interests
Aesthetics, mysticism

Amir Hossein Zekrgoo (born 1957 in Tehran) is an Iranian artist, art historian and Indologist. He has been professor of Islamic and Oriental arts at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) from 2001 to 2016. [1] [2] [3] He was awarded Ikuo Hirayama Silk Roads Fellowship by UNESCO.

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Zekrgoo is an art historian of Islamic and Oriental arts, researcher of Persian mystical art and literature, and a scholar of comparative religion. He has studied fine arts in the University of Kansas, Indian art in the University of Delhi, and Islamic manuscript and monumental inscriptions at the National Museum Institute of Art History, Conservation and Museology. Besides English, he has studied Classical Persian, Arabic, Turkic, Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit and Malay languages.

Zekrgoo is an associate member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts and of the Academy of Sciences of Iran, member of the Islamic Manuscript Association (TIMA) and honorary member of All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society(IFACS).

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Books and book chapters



'Treasures of Sciences in the Lovely Realm of Sights': An Investigation into Āmulī's Manuscript of Nafāis al-Funῡn fī 'Arā'is al-'Uyῡn, Al-Shajarah, Journal of the International Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilization (ISTAC), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), 2020 Volume 25, Number 1, IIUM Press, pp. 163-189. ISSN: 1394-6870

ISBN   978-983-9379-50-1

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References

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