Ali-Asghar Hekmat Explained

Ali-Asghar Hekmat
Birth Date:	16 June 1892
Birth Place:	Shiraz, Iran
Death Place:	Tehran, Iran
Party:	National Front
Signature:	Ali-Asghar Hekmat Signature.svg
Signature Size:	120

Ali-Asghar Hekmat-e Shirazi (Persian: علی‌اصغر حکمت شیرازی; 16 June 1892 – 25 August 1980), or Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan-e Hekmat-e Shirazi (Persian: 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]

See also

• History of Iran

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• Ḥasan-ʿAli Ḥekmat, "Moḵtaṣar-i dar šarḥ-e zendegi-e ostād ʿAli-Aṣḡar-e Ḥekmat", unpublished pamphlet, Tehran, 1981.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

• • 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
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ajam . Mohammad . Persian Inscriptions on the Indian Monuments . parssea . 15 June 2020 . 29 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20201112200433/http://parssea.org/?p=3848 . 12 November 2020. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
2. Web site: Iran, India relations span centuries marked by meaningful interactions. 22 January 2014. IRNA English.
3. Web site: 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. 23 June 2020. 23 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200623144154/http://www.tokyo.icro.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=417&pageid=35234&newsview=752828. dead.
4. Sardari . Mohadeseh Salari . Andre Godard and Maxime Siroux: Disentangling the Narrative of French Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Iran . Iranian Studies . 2024 . 10.1017/irn.2024.10. 5. free .