Iranian Research Institute of Philosophy

About Iranian Research Institute of Philosophy

According to Wikipedia, The Iranian Research Institute of Philosophy is a public research institute in Tehran, Iran. History In September 1974, Farah Pahlavi Empress of Iran commissioned Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Head of the Empress's Private Bureau, to establish and lead the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy. It was the first academic institution to be founded upon the principles of philosophical Traditionalism. Nasr was a Professor of History of Science and Philosophy at University of Tehran who also served for several years as president of Sharif University of Technology in Iran. The main objectives of the institute were to present and promote the Iranian intellectual and philosophical heritage of the Islamic and pre-Islamic ears at national and international levels, to improve the presentation of Eastern and Western intellectual traditions to Iranian and the abroad, and to make the necessary preparations for comparative study of different philosophical traditions.