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Ashk Dahlén
Ashk Dahlén is a docent in Iranian Languages at Uppsala University and translator of Persian literature into Swedish. His areas of research are Persian lyric and epic poetry and mirrors for princes, Iranian philosophy and intellectual history, Zoroastrianism, and antinomian Sufism.
Dahlén received his doctorate in Iranian Languages from Uppsala University and has held post-doctoral fellowships at Stockholm University and University of Tehran. His doctoral research was published as Islamic law, epistemology and modernity. Legal philosophy in contemporary Iran (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2003). In 2004, he was recognized with the Beskow Award by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for the best dissertation in humanities.
Dahlén is a member of the Advisory Board of the Encyclopædia Iranica and the Collegium of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. He was the founding president of the Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies (SSIS). He has published widely within Iranian Studies. His most recent book, Zarathustra sånger: den äldsta iranska diktningen (H:ström – Text och kultur, 2023), is a study and translation of Zarathustra’s Gatha from Old Avestan.
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Mānā Āqāyī (Mana Aghaee), Persian poet, translator, and bibliographer (b. Bushehr, 1352/1973). From Bushehr to Stockholm Mānā Āqāyī (Mana Aghaee)…
