Hamid Algar
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Professor Hamid Algar, PhD, born in England in 1940, is a well known scholar and convert to Shia Islam. Since 1965 he has served on the faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches Persian and Islamic history and philosophy.
He translated Imamate and Leadership.
[edit] External links
- UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies page
- "Q&A: A conversation with Hamid Algar", Russell Schoch, California magazine, June 2003