Mehdi Mohaghegh

  • A ceremony was held at Vahdat Hall on Sunday to tribute Iranian prominent University Professor Mehdi Mohaghegh. He is the founder and director of the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Tehran Branch since 1968, where he has collaborated with Toshihiko Izutsu and Herman Landolt on several important projects. Professor Mohaghegh is the author and editor of more than fifty books and over two hundred and ten articles on Persian language and literature, Islamic philosophy and mysticism, and history of Islamic medicine in Persian, Arabic, and English.