Katayun (name)
Katayun (also Katayoun and Katajun) is a given name. People *Katajun Amirpur (born 1971), German-Iranian professor *Katayoun Copeland, American lawyer and politician *Katayoun Khosrowyar (born 1987), Iranian-American football coach * Katayun Mazdapour (born 1943), Iranian linguist * Katayun Pracher-Hilander (born 1971), Austrian politician * Katayoun Riahi (born 1961), Iranian actress * Katayoon Shahabi (born 1968), Iranian film producer * Katayun Virkar (1918–2011), Indian medical researcher Other uses * Katāyoun, in Persian mythology, the wife of Vishtaspa, Goshtāsb and the mother of Esfandiār References

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Katajun Amirpur
Katajun Amirpur (; ; born 1971) is a German-Iranian professor of Islamic studies, Islamic Studies at the University of Cologne. Biography Amirpur graduated in Iranian Studies at the University of Bonn. She subsequently taught at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Bamberg and the University of Bonn. In 2000, she was awarded her doctorate by the University of Bamberg on the Shia Islam, Shiite exegesis of the Quran, Qur'an with a thesis on the "Thought and Influence of Abdolkarim Soroush in the Islamic Republic of Iran". In February 2010, she was appointed Assistant Professor for Modern Islamic World with a focus on Iran by the university board of the University of Zurich. In June 2011, she was appointed Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg. She is one of the editors of the magazine ''Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik''. Her father, Manutschehr Amirpur, was an Iranian cultural attaché under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Her mother i ...
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