Saeed Nafisi
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… more
Though Nafisi was full time busy in studying the history and literature of Iran, he also had a criticizing view over the social developments of his time. His book “Midway to Heavan” (1331) was in fact a political revealing of the lives of the aristocrats and political class of those days. By giving nicknames (which can be made out with a little attention) he showed the hidden faces of many men of his time and criticized their policies. In this way, he became the initiator of social criticism, in his period…. more
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After the occupation of Iran by the Allies in 1941, the Shāh of Iran was forced to renounce the crown in favor of his young son, and from then until the CIA-backed Coup of August 1953, the Iranian society experienced a period of relative cultural freedom… more