Ali-Asghar Hekmat

Iranian politician

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Ali-Asghar Hekmat

Born	(1892-06-16)16 June 1892 Shiraz, Iran
Died	25 August 1980(1980-08-25) (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 under the government of Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shahs of Iran. Hekmat was an Iranian ambassador to India and wrote multiple books about Indian history and culture. After the Islamic revolution in Iran, 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, the Ancient Iran Museum (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: 5. doi:10.1017/irn.2024.10.

Sources

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Ḥasan-ʿAli Ḥekmat, "Moḵtaṣar-i dar šarḥ-e zendegi-e ostād ʿAli-Aṣḡar-e Ḥekmat", unpublished pamphlet, Tehran, 1981.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.

External links

Media related to Ali-Asghar Hekmat at Wikimedia Commons
Iran and India relations span centuries marked by meaningful interactions, according to renowned Iranian Scholar, Dr. Mohammad Ajam.
"History of Persian or Parsi Language" — Iran Chamber Society
soas.ac.uk Archived 23 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
First steps of Hekmat: the diary of Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan Hekmat-e Shirazi
Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India office, Volume 1 (1903)

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