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Ali-Asghar Hekmat-e Shirazi (Persian: علی‌اصغر حکمت شیرازی; 16 June 1892 – 25 August 1980), or Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan-e Hekmat-e Shirazi (میرزا علی‌اصغر خان حکمت شیرازی), was an Iranian politician, diplomat and author who served as the Iranian minister of foreign affairs, minister of justice, and minister of culture under the government of Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shahs of Iran. Hekmat was an Iranian ambassador to India and wrote multiple books about Indian history and culture. After the Islamic revolution in Iran, his books and works were ignored and he was labelled as a Freemason, but one of his books, Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments, was reprinted and introduced to Iranians.
The majority of Iran's contemporary landmarks, such as the University of Tehran campus, the Ancient Iran Museum (later known as the Iran National Museum), and the revered tombs of Ferdowsi, Hafez, and Saadi, were constructed under his leadership.




See also


History of Iran




References






Sources


Aḥmad Eqtedāri, Kārvān-e ʿomr: ḵāṭerāt-e siāsi-farhangi-e haftād sāl ʿomr, Tehran, 1993, pp. 25–26, 205.
Ḥasan-ʿAli Ḥekmat, "Moḵtaṣar-i dar šarḥ-e zendegi-e ostād ʿAli-Aṣḡar-e Ḥekmat", unpublished pamphlet, Tehran, 1981.
Hormoz Ḥekmat, interviewed by Abbās Milāni, 23 April 2002.
Bāqer Kāẓemi, in Iraj Afšār, ed., Nāma-hā-ye Tehrān, Tehran, 2000, pp. 416–427.
Komision-e melli-e Yunesko (UNESCO) dar Īrān, Īrān-šahr, 2 vols., Tehran, 1963–64. Reżā Moʿini (ed.), Čehra-hā-ye āšenā, Tehran, 1965.
United States Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–60, Washington, D.C., 1993.
Mehdi Walāʾi, "Fehrest-e nosaḵ-e vaqfi-e ʿAli-Aṣḡar Ḥekmat be Āstān-e Qods-e Rażavi", Nosḵa-hā-ye ḵaṭṭi V, 1967, pp. 1–7.




External links



Media related to Ali-Asghar Hekmat at Wikimedia Commons
Iran and India relations span centuries marked by meaningful interactions, according to renowned Iranian Scholar, Dr. Mohammad Ajam.
"History of Persian or Parsi Language" — Iran Chamber Society
soas.ac.uk Archived 23 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
First steps of Hekmat: the diary of Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan Hekmat-e Shirazi
Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India office, Volume 1 (1903)

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