Saadi's Non-Violent Discourse in His Violent Era

*LECTURE IN PERSIAN

Mohammad Navid Bazargan is an Assistant Professor of Persian Literature in Azad University and a member of the academic board of the Great Encyclopedia of Islam since 2004. He has contributed entries for Encyclopedia of Persian language and Literature and is the senior editor of Journal of Culture and Literature in Azad University. His most recent responsibilities as Academic Secretary of two International Conference for Mowlana and Ferdowsi have enriched and broadened his perspective about Persian literature in contemporary world.

During the 2003-2004 academic year, he was at Harvard University thanks to a research fellowship granted to him at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Bazargan came to the US in 2013 as a visiting scholar of California State University of Northridge to do his studies along with the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program.

Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Program of Iranian Studies, With the Support of the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies