Hossein Masoumi Hamedani Information

Hossein Masoumi Hamedani (born November 27, 1948, in Hamedan) is an Iranian scholar, specializing in Persian literature, the history of mathematics, the history of science, and the philosophy of science. He serves as a faculty member at the Institute for Research in Philosophy (Hekmat and Philosophy) of Iran and at Sharif University of Technology. Additionally, he is a permanent member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. He has previously held the position of head of the Language and Computing Department at the Academy.

Masoumi Hamedani earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Aryamehr University of Technology (now Sharif University of Technology) in 1972. In 2006, he completed his Ph.D. in the history of science from Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), where his doctoral thesis focused on the work of Ibn al-Haytham, under the supervision of the renowned scholar Roshdi Rashed.

Throughout his career, Masoumi Hamedani has worked at the University Publishing Center, but later parted ways with the organization. Ahmed Samiei, editor-in-chief of the “Nashr Danesh” journal, praised him as possessing remarkable genius across multiple scientific, literary, and cultural fields.

Masoumi Hamedani has made notable contributions to Iranian academia. In 2009, he was one of 125 professors at Sharif University who called for reason and active participation in the national elections, issuing a statement criticizing the exclusion of experienced specialists from decision-making processes and the manipulation of public sentiments in the name of justice.

Selected Works:

• “Master of Humanity” (co-authored with Mohammad Javad Anvari)
• “The History and Philosophy of Science: Essays on and by Roshdi Rashed”
• “The History of Science in the Last Four Centuries in Iran” (published in Aspects of Islamic Civilization by UNESCO)
• “Scientific Biography of Islamic Scholars” (editor)
• “Manthiat al-Idrak fi Taqasim al-Aflak” (co-edited with Hanif Qalandari)

Translations:

• “The Part and the Whole” by Werner Heisenberg (Awarded the Iran Book of the Year)
• “Quantum Theory” by John Polkinghorne
• “What Do the Iranians Dream About?” by Michel Foucault
• “Thermodynamics of Equilibrium” by Clement John Adkins
• “Relativity: Special, General, Cosmological” by Wolfgang Rindler
• “Anthropology and Art: A Dialogue with Claude Lévi-Strauss” by Georges Charbonnier
• “The Philosophy of Natural Science” by Carl Gustav Hempel
• “The Status of Science” by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
• “Incomplete Ashes” (Selected Poems of René Char)
• “From Aristotle to Newton: The Emergence of Modern Physics” by I. Bernard Cohen
• “Novecento (The Legend of 1900)” by Alessandro Baricco