Reza Davari Ardakani ( fa, رضا داوری اردکانی; born 6 July 1933, in Ardakan) is an Iranian philosopher who was influenced by

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, and a distinguished emeritus professor of philosophy at the

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. He is also the current president of the

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. He is known for his works on criticism of the

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and thought. Davari4

Life

Davari received primary and secondary education in Arkadan, and after leaving school became a teacher in 1951. In 1954, he entered the

as an undergraduate, gaining a BA and in 1967 a PhD in philosophy there.Şerif Mardi, ''Cultural transitions in the Middle East'', 1994, BRILL, p. 238. He is currently a

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of philosophy at Tehran University. From 1979 to 1981, he was

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at the faculty of

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and

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, University of Tehran, and the head of Iranian National Commission for

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from 1979 to 1982. Davari was the

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of '' Farhang Journal''. Davari and

Abdolkarim Soroush Abdolkarim Soroush ( ; born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 1945; fa, حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian Islamic thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar, public intellectual, and a former professor of phil ...

have engaged in a series of philosophical debates in post-revolutionary Iran.Jacques Waardenburg, ''Muslims and others'', 2003, Walter de Gruyter, pp. 491–2

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Reza Davari Ardakani's official website
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Life

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