Tributes

Tributes

The impassioned eulogies that Hossein Ziai’s friends, colleagues, and graduate students delivered at his memorial service echoed the sentiments of the nearly seven-hundred people in attendance at Forest Lawn on 3 September 2011.

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Memories of Abdullahabad

Memories of Abdullahabad

In 1970, British theater director Peter Brook traveled with Arby Ovanessian and Anthony Page to a village in Khorasan to watch Ta’ziyeh Moslem—a Shi’ite ritualistic tragedy—the year before he presented Orghast I & II, “a work in progress” at the Shiraz Arts Festival جشن هنر شیراز.

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Yale Literary Magazine

Yale Literary Magazine

As an undergraduate at Yale, Hossein Ziai was the art editor and an associate of the prestigious Yale Literary Magazine, the oldest literary review in the U.S. (founded 1836).

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Memorial Volume

Memorial Volume

The late Professor Hossein Ziai’s interests focused on the Illuminationist (Ishrāqī) tradition. Dedicated to his memory, this volume deals with the post-Avicennan philosophical tradition in Iran, and in particular the Illuminationist school and later philosophers, such as those associated with the School of Isfahan, who were fundamentally influenced by it.

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