Mahmoud Khatami (Persian: محمود خاتمی; born 1962 or 1963) is an Iranian

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

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Mahmoud Khatami grew up in

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

. Showing an early interest in humanities, he attended the Seminary of Islamic Studies, which gained him the traditional degree of ''

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'', the highest level in Islamic religious and theological learning. Concurrently, he attended the

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as ...

to pursue his secular education for the BA, MA and MS degrees. He also received two PhD degrees in philosophy from Iranian institutions, one in 1987 and one in 1992. Afterwards, he furthered his education in

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, where he was awarded a further PhD in the field of Philosophical Psychology at the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to ...

in 1996. Returning to Iran, he was appointed to the Department of Philosophy at

in 1997 where he is now a Professor of Contemporary Philosophy. In 2002, he was made a Fellow of Iran's Academy of the Arts. He has served as a visiting professor at other Iranian and Western universities, and has received awards for his academic excellence both inside and outside Iran. In 2014, he was accused of plagiarism. The journal ''Topoi'' retracted one of his articles and the journal editor discussed Khatami's plagiarism in an editorial.

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Faculty of Human sciences, University of Tehran

Mahmoud Khatami
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Mahmoud Khatami

Mahmoud Khatami
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