Hasan Javadi

Hasan Javadi, born and educated in Tabriz, Iran, received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965, where he had been the Persian lector since 1963. He assisted Professor Arberry in the translation of Rumi’s “Mystical Poems” and later edited its second volume after Arberry’s death. Javadi served as chairman of the English department and taught English and Persian literature at the University of Tehran from 1966 until he went to U.C. Berkeley in 1977. There he taught Persian literature and history until moving to the Washington, D.C., area in 1990, where he has taught Middle Eastern literature and politics at George Washington and Catholic Universities. Among his published works are “Letters from Tabriz” by E. G. Browne (1971), “Persian Literary Influence on English Literature” (Mazda Publishers, 2005), “Satire in Persian Literature” (1985), “European Travelers in Iran” (2000), and translations (both in English and Persian) of the works of Forugh Farrokhzad, Simin Danishvar, Ghulam-Husain Sa’edi, ‘Obeyd-e Zakani, E. M. Forster, A. J. Arberry, Evliya Chelebi, Bakikhanov and many others. Javadi has written numerous articles on Iranian and Azerbaijani history, literature, Islamic thought and Persian art. Two of his recent works are “Edward Browne ve Iran” (Tehran 2017) and an extended version of “The Persian Literary Influence on English Literature” (in Persian) to include works from the sixteenth century to the present (Tehran, 2018).