Hossein Ziai, Ph.D.
Professor of Iranian

Office: Kinsey Hall 393B
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
310.206.1382 - phone
310.206.6456 - fax
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Harvard 1976.
B.S. Yale 1967.

BIOGRAPHY
Hossein Ziai, Tenured Full Professor of Islamic and Iranian Studies, and Director of Iranian Studies at UCLA, where he has taught since 1988. He received his B.S. in 1967 in Mathematics & Physics from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Islamic Philosophy from Harvard University in 1976. Prior to his position at UCLA, Ziai has taught at Tehran University, Sharif University, Harvard University, Brown University, and Oberlin College. Dr. Ziai has published several volumes and numerous articles on Islamic philosophy, especially the Iranian/Islamic Illuminationist tradition. His books include: (1) Philosophy of Mathematics (in Persian); (2) Anvariyya (The Realm of Lights); (3) Knowledge and Illumination; (4) Shahrazur’s Commentary on Hikmat al-Ishraq; (5) The Book of Radiance; (6) The Philosophy of Illumination; (7) The Ball and Polo Stick, or the Book of Ecstasy; (8) Ibn Kammuna’s Text on Illuminationist Physics. He has also contributed many chapters to edited volumes including: “Beyond Philosophy” in Myth and Philosophy, edited by Frank Reynolds and David Tracy. “The Source and Nature of Authority” in The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy, edited by Charles Butterworth; and three chapters in The Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman. He is also the author of numerous articles on Islamic philosophy and on Iranian/Islamic intellectual traditions. Ziai has offered numerous papers at national and international conferences.

From: http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Ziai.htm