Education
Shayegan studied at Sorbonne University in Paris.
Shayegan studied at Sorbonne University in Paris.
He was a Professor of Sanskrit and Indian religions at Tehran University. He was a founding director of the Iranian Center for the Studies of Civilizations. In 1977, Shayegan initiated an international symposium on the "dialogue between civilizations," a concept that has been selectively appropriated by the former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
He wrote a novel "Land of Mirage" in French which won the ADELF award presented by the Association of French Authors on December 26, 2004. Among Iranians who won the ADELF award prior to him Ahmad Kamyabi Mask and Javad Hadidi are notable. In 2009 Shayegan was awarded the inaugural Global Dialogue Prize, an international award for "outstanding achievements in the advancement and application of intercultural value research", in recognition of his dialogical conception of cultural subjectivity (for a statement of the award committee and a scholarly presentation (including a fairly complete bibliography) of Shayegan"s contribution to intercultural dialogue, see the (copyrighted) webpages of this award.).
