Siavash Saffari

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Siavash Saffari
سیاوش صفاری
Education University of Alberta (PhD), McMaster University (MA), Simon Fraser University (BA)
Awards Best First Book Award
Scientific career
Institutions Seoul National University
Thesis Reclaiming Islam and Modernity: A Neo-Shariati Revisiting of Ali Shariati's Intellectual Discourse in Post-revolutionary Iran  (2013)
Doctoral advisor Mojtaba Mahdavi
Website siavashsaffari.com

Siavash Saffari is an Iranian political scientist and associate professor of West Asian Studies at Seoul National University. He is known for his works on Iranian intellectual history. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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