Ali-Asghar Hekmat

Hekmat E Shirazi حکمت شیرازی or Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan Hekmat Shirazi (16 June 1892 – 5 March 1980) 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 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Shirazi was the first 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 recently reprinted and introduced to Iranians.^[1]

References

Aḥmad Eqtedāri, Kārvān-e ʿomr: ḵāṭerāt-e siāsi-farhangi-ehaftād sāl ʿomr, Tehran, 1993, pp. 25–26, 205.
Ḥasan-ʿAli Ḥekmat, “Moḵtaṣari dar šarḥ-e zendagi-e ostād ʿAli-Aṣḡar Ḥekmat,” unpublished pamphlet, Tehran, 1981.
Hormoz Ḥekmat, interviewed by A. Milani, April 23, 2002.
Bāqer Kāẓemi, in Iraj Afšār, ed., Nāmahā-ye Tehrān, Tehran, 2000, pp. 416–27.
Komisiun-e melli-e Yunesko (UNESCO) dar Īrān, Īrān-šahr, 2 vols., Tehran, 1963-64. Reżā Moʿini, ed., Čehrahā-yeāšnā, Tehran, 1965.
United States Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960, Washington, D.C., 1993.
Mehdi Walāʾi, “Fehrest-e nosaḵ-e waqfi-e ʿAli-Aṣḡar Ḥekmat be Āstān-e qods-e rażawi,”ṟ Nosḵahā-ye ḵaṭṭi V, 1967, pp. 1–7.

Iran and India relations span centuries marked by meaningful interactions, according to renowned Iranian Scholar,Dr. Mohammad Ajam.
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"History of Persian or Parsi Language" — Iran Chamber Society
[3] — soas.ac.uk
First steps of Hekmat: the diary of Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan Hekmat Shirazi [4]
Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India office, Volume 1 (1903)

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