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| birth_name = Ashk Barjesteh Nia |
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|6|3|df=y}} |
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| birth_place = [[Tafresh]], [[Iran]] |
| birth_place = [[Tafresh]], [[Pahlavi Iran|Imperial State of Iran]] |
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| citizenship = [[Swedes|Swedish]] |
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| nationality = Swedish |
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| spouse = [[Mana Aghaee]] |
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| fields = *[[Persian language]] |
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*[[Persian literature]] |
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*[[Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities]] |
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| alma_mater = [[Uppsala University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] 1997, [[PhD]] 2002) |
| alma_mater = [[Uppsala University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] 1997, [[PhD]] 2002) |
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| awards = *[[Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities|Beskow Award]] |
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*Children of Abraham Award |
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'''Ashk Peter Dahlén''' (born 3 June 1972 in [[Tafresh]], [[Iran]]) is a [[Swedish People|Swedish]] |
'''Ashk Peter Dahlén''' (born 3 June 1972 in [[Tafresh]], [[Iran]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Axelsson |first1=Pelle |title=The Persian Empire |url=https://intellectinterviews.com/2019/04/the-persian-empire/ |website=Intellect Interviews |date=April 2019 |access-date=23 April 2023}}</ref> is a [[Swedish People|Swedish]] [[scholar]], [[linguist]], [[Iranologist]], [[translator]], and [[associate professor]] ([[docent]]) in [[Persian language]] at [[Uppsala University]]. He is quadrilingual in [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[English language|English]], and [[French language|French]]. He has published extensively in journals, and has written several books. |
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== Background == |
== Background == |
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Ashk Dahlén was [[Adoption|adopted]] at 7 months of age by a [[Swedish People|Swedish]] couple after having been living at an [[orphanage]] in [[Narmak]], north-east [[Tehran]], Iran. His life story provided inspiration, though fictional, for the [[IRIB3]] [[drama series|Television drama series]] ''[[The Green Journey]]'' ({{ |
Ashk Dahlén was [[Adoption|adopted]] at 7 months of age by a [[Swedish People|Swedish]] couple after having been living at an [[orphanage]] in [[Narmak]], north-east [[Tehran]], Iran. His life story provided inspiration, though fictional, for the [[IRIB3]] [[drama series|Television drama series]] ''[[The Green Journey]]'' ({{langx|fa|سفر سبز}}, 2002) directed by Mohammad Hossein Latifi, in which the main character, a young adoptee played by [[Parsa Pirouzfar]], travels to Iran in search for his birth parents.<ref>{{cite news |title=رؤیای دیدار مادر: دکتر سوئدی برای یافتن خانواده ایرانی خود به تهران آمد |url=https://irannewspaper.ir |accessdate=2 January 2019 |work=Iran Newspaper |publisher=IRNA |date=8 November 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tv3.ir/program/details/11199|title=IRIB TV3: Safar-e Sabz|accessdate=August 2, 2018|publisher=[[IRIB TV3]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104190037/https://www.tv3.ir/program/details/11199|archive-date=November 4, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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Ashk Dahlén currently acts as Associate Professor (''docent'') in [[Iranian languages]] at [[Uppsala University]].<ref>{{cite web|url= |
Ashk Dahlén currently acts as Associate Professor (''docent'') in [[Iranian languages]] at [[Uppsala University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/person.jsf?pid=authority-person:13586 |title=Ashk Dahlén, docent |date= |publisher=Uppsala University}}</ref> His thesis ''Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity'' has been published by [[Routledge|Routledge/Taylor & Francis]]. In 2003 he was recognized with the Beskow Award by [[Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities|The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities]] for the best dissertation in humanities. |
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Ashk Dahlén is the author of several academic studies on [[Persian literature]], [[Iranian history|Iranian cultural history]], [[Zoroastrianism]], and [[Sufism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arkiv.mitti.se:4711/2006/26/tensta_rinkeby/MITR12A20060626TRV1.pdf|title=Han gav svenska ord |
Ashk Dahlén is the author of several academic studies on [[Persian literature]], [[Iranian history|Iranian cultural history]], [[Zoroastrianism]], and [[Sufism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arkiv.mitti.se:4711/2006/26/tensta_rinkeby/MITR12A20060626TRV1.pdf|title=Han gav svenska ord åt 700-årig klassiker|last=Ruborg|first=Monika|date=27 June 2006|publisher=Mitti|language=Swedish|accessdate=18 February 2017|archive-date=26 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226191103/http://arkiv.mitti.se:4711/2006/26/tensta_rinkeby/MITR12A20060626TRV1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is also translator of [[classical Persian literature]] and of [[Old Avestan]] [[literature]]. In 2001, he published his first work of translation in [[Swedish language|Swedish]], ''Vassflöjtens sång'', consisting of a selection of poetry written by the Medieval Persian poet [[Rumi]]. He has published literary translations of the ''[[the Divān of Hafez|Divān]]'' of [[Hafez]], ''Chahār maqāla'' (Four Discourses) of [[Nizami Aruzi]], and ''Lama'āt'' (Flashes) of [[Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi|Fakhr od-din Araqi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://avadiplomatic.com/en/archive/3471 |title="Iranology Is a Global Phenomenon," Believes Ashk Dahlén. |date=September 28, 2014 |publisher=AVAdiplomatic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/till-den-erotiskt-laddade-lyrikens-lov |title=Till den erotiskt laddade lyrikens lov. |date=February 13, 2018 |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet|language=Swedish|accessdate=16 February 2018 |last1=Byggmästar |first1=Eva-Stina }}</ref> He has also made a Swedish translation of the ''[[Gathas]]'' of [[Zarathustra]] and of ''[[Yasna Haptanghaiti]]'' from [[Old Avestan]], which was published in 2023. |
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Ashk Dahlén is a member of the Research Collegium of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.srii.org/Page/Collegium |title="Collegium" |date=4 December 2017 |publisher=The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul |access-date=3 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223173737/http://srii.org/Page/Collegium |archive-date=23 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[The Iranian Academy of Philosophy]], and the [[Nathan Söderblom|Nathan Söderblom Society]]. He is the Founding President of the [[Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/network/ssis/events/ssis-conference.html |title="1st Triennial Conference of the Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies" |date= 10 July 2012|publisher=University of Oslo}}</ref> |
Ashk Dahlén is a member of the Research Collegium of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.srii.org/Page/Collegium |title="Collegium" |date=4 December 2017 |publisher=The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul |access-date=3 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223173737/http://srii.org/Page/Collegium |archive-date=23 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[The Iranian Academy of Philosophy]], and the [[Nathan Söderblom|Nathan Söderblom Society]]. He is the Founding President of the [[Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies]] (2010-2016).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/network/ssis/events/ssis-conference.html |title="1st Triennial Conference of the Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies" |date= 10 July 2012|publisher=University of Oslo}}</ref> |
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== Selected work in English == |
== Selected work in English == |
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* Sufi Islam, ''The World's Religions: Continuities and Transformations'', ed. P. B. Clarke & Peter Beyer, New York, 2009. |
* Sufi Islam, ''The World's Religions: Continuities and Transformations'', ed. P. B. Clarke & Peter Beyer, New York, 2009. |
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* Kingship and Religion in a Mediaeval Fürstenspiegel: The Case of the Chahār Maqāla of Nizāmi Aruzi, ''Orientalia Suecana'', vol. 58, Uppsala, 2009. |
* Kingship and Religion in a Mediaeval Fürstenspiegel: The Case of the Chahār Maqāla of Nizāmi Aruzi, ''Orientalia Suecana'', vol. 58, Uppsala, 2009. |
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* He addressed the Kayānian king: |
* He addressed the Kayānian king: "I am a prophet!": The Image of Zoroaster in the Dāstān-e Goshtāsp (Tale of Goshtāsp), ''Orientalia Suecana'', Uppsala, 2012. |
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* Thematic Features in Iranian National History Writings: The Case of the Dāstān-e Goshtāsp (Tale of Goshtāsp), ''[http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:790240/FULLTEXT01.pdf International Shāhnāme Conference. The Second Milliennium: Conference Volume]'', ed. F. Hashabeiky, Uppsala, 2014. |
* Thematic Features in Iranian National History Writings: The Case of the Dāstān-e Goshtāsp (Tale of Goshtāsp), ''[http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:790240/FULLTEXT01.pdf International Shāhnāme Conference. The Second Milliennium: Conference Volume]'', ed. F. Hashabeiky, Uppsala, 2014. |
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* Literary Interest in Zoroastrianism in Tenth-Century Iran: The Case of Daqiqi's Account of Goshtāsp and Zarathustra in the Shāhnāmeh, ''The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition'', ed. A. Williams, S. Stewart & A. Hintze, London, 2016. |
* Literary Interest in Zoroastrianism in Tenth-Century Iran: The Case of Daqiqi's Account of Goshtāsp and Zarathustra in the Shāhnāmeh, ''The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition'', ed. A. Williams, S. Stewart & A. Hintze, London, 2016. |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170704172850/http://ashkdahlen.com/index.php?id=15 Ashk Dahlén - Official Website] (in English) |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170704172850/http://ashkdahlen.com/index.php?id=15 Ashk Dahlén - Official Website] (in English) |
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* [http://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N13-2112 Ashk Dahlén - Uppsala University] (in English) |
* [http://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N13-2112 Ashk Dahlén - Uppsala University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702011335/https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N13-2112 |date=2022-07-02 }} (in English) |
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* [https://intellectinterviews.com/2019/04/the-persian-empire/ Interview with Ashk Dahlén - IntellectInterviews] (in English) |
* [https://intellectinterviews.com/2019/04/the-persian-empire/ Interview with Ashk Dahlén - IntellectInterviews] (in English) |
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* {{cite news|url=https://www.radiofarda.com/a/f2_iran_ashk_dahlen_sweden_scandinavia_persian_language_norway_mowlavi_tehran/24375200.html|title=Dāstān-e zendegi-ye yek su'edi |last=Ravānshād|first=Elāhe|newspaper=رادیو فردا |date=29 October 2011|publisher=[[Radio Farda]]|language=Persian|accessdate=1 November 2017}} |
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* {{cite web|url=https://www.axess.se/tv/program.aspx?id=4076|title=Om Nizami Aruzi med Ashk Dahlén |last=Luthersson|first=Peter|date=18 July 2016|publisher=[[Axess TV]]|language=Swedish|accessdate=1 November 2017}} |
* {{cite web|url=https://www.axess.se/tv/program.aspx?id=4076|title=Om Nizami Aruzi med Ashk Dahlén |last=Luthersson|first=Peter|date=18 July 2016|publisher=[[Axess TV]]|language=Swedish|accessdate=1 November 2017}} |
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Latest revision as of 01:08, 11 November 2024
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Born | Ashk Barjesteh Nia 3 June 1972 |
Nationality | Swedish |
Citizenship | Swedish |
Alma mater | Uppsala University (BA 1997, PhD 2002) |
Spouse | Mana Aghaee |
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Ashk Peter Dahlén (born 3 June 1972 in Tafresh, Iran)[1] is a Swedish scholar, linguist, Iranologist, translator, and associate professor (docent) in Persian language at Uppsala University. He is quadrilingual in Swedish, Persian, English, and French. He has published extensively in journals, and has written several books.
Background
[edit]Ashk Dahlén was adopted at 7 months of age by a Swedish couple after having been living at an orphanage in Narmak, north-east Tehran, Iran. His life story provided inspiration, though fictional, for the IRIB3 Television drama series The Green Journey (Persian: سفر سبز, 2002) directed by Mohammad Hossein Latifi, in which the main character, a young adoptee played by Parsa Pirouzfar, travels to Iran in search for his birth parents.[2][3]
Career
[edit]Ashk Dahlén currently acts as Associate Professor (docent) in Iranian languages at Uppsala University.[4] His thesis Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity has been published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. In 2003 he was recognized with the Beskow Award by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for the best dissertation in humanities.
Ashk Dahlén is the author of several academic studies on Persian literature, Iranian cultural history, Zoroastrianism, and Sufism.[5] He is also translator of classical Persian literature and of Old Avestan literature. In 2001, he published his first work of translation in Swedish, Vassflöjtens sång, consisting of a selection of poetry written by the Medieval Persian poet Rumi. He has published literary translations of the Divān of Hafez, Chahār maqāla (Four Discourses) of Nizami Aruzi, and Lama'āt (Flashes) of Fakhr od-din Araqi.[6][7] He has also made a Swedish translation of the Gathas of Zarathustra and of Yasna Haptanghaiti from Old Avestan, which was published in 2023.
Ashk Dahlén is a member of the Research Collegium of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul,[8] The Iranian Academy of Philosophy, and the Nathan Söderblom Society. He is the Founding President of the Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies (2010-2016).[9]
Selected work in English
[edit]- Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity: Legal Philosophy in Contemporary Iran, New York, 2003.
- Transcendent Hermeneutics of Supreme Love : Rumi's Concept of Mystical "Appropriation", Orientalia Suecana, Uppsala, 2003.
- The Holy Fool in Medieval Islam: The Qalandariyat of Fakhr al-din Arāqi, Orientalia Suecana, Uppsala, 2004.
- Sirat al-mustaqim: One or Many? Religious Pluralism Among Muslim Intellectuals in Iran, The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought, ed. I. Abu-Rabi, Oxford, 2006.
- The Hermeneutics of Post-modern Islam: The Case of ‘Abdol-Karim Sorush, Religious Texts in Iranian Languages, red. F. Vahman och C. V. Pedersen, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, 2007.
- Female Sufi Saints and Disciples: Women in the life of Jalāl al-din Rumi, Orientalia Suecana, vol. 57, Uppsala, 2008.
- Sufi Islam, The World's Religions: Continuities and Transformations, ed. P. B. Clarke & Peter Beyer, New York, 2009.
- Kingship and Religion in a Mediaeval Fürstenspiegel: The Case of the Chahār Maqāla of Nizāmi Aruzi, Orientalia Suecana, vol. 58, Uppsala, 2009.
- He addressed the Kayānian king: "I am a prophet!": The Image of Zoroaster in the Dāstān-e Goshtāsp (Tale of Goshtāsp), Orientalia Suecana, Uppsala, 2012.
- Thematic Features in Iranian National History Writings: The Case of the Dāstān-e Goshtāsp (Tale of Goshtāsp), International Shāhnāme Conference. The Second Milliennium: Conference Volume, ed. F. Hashabeiky, Uppsala, 2014.
- Literary Interest in Zoroastrianism in Tenth-Century Iran: The Case of Daqiqi's Account of Goshtāsp and Zarathustra in the Shāhnāmeh, The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition, ed. A. Williams, S. Stewart & A. Hintze, London, 2016.
- Living the Iranian dolce vita: Herodotus on wine drinking and luxury among the Persians, Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian Presence and Impact in the Western Satrapies 546–330 BC, ed. Ashk P. Dahlén, Uppsala, 2020.
Textbooks (in Swedish)
[edit]- Modern persisk grammatik (Modern Persian Grammar), Stockholm, 3rd edition 2017 (2010, 2014), 456 p.
- Persiska för nybörjare (Persian for Beginners), Stockholm, 2nd edition 2016 (2012), 420 p.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Axelsson, Pelle (April 2019). "The Persian Empire". Intellect Interviews. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ "رؤیای دیدار مادر: دکتر سوئدی برای یافتن خانواده ایرانی خود به تهران آمد". Iran Newspaper. IRNA. 8 November 1999. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- ^ "IRIB TV3: Safar-e Sabz". IRIB TV3. Archived from the original on November 4, 2019. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
- ^ "Ashk Dahlén, docent". Uppsala University.
- ^ Ruborg, Monika (27 June 2006). "Han gav svenska ord åt 700-årig klassiker" (PDF) (in Swedish). Mitti. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ ""Iranology Is a Global Phenomenon," Believes Ashk Dahlén". AVAdiplomatic. September 28, 2014.
- ^ Byggmästar, Eva-Stina (February 13, 2018). "Till den erotiskt laddade lyrikens lov". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ ""Collegium"". The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. 4 December 2017. Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ^ ""1st Triennial Conference of the Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies"". University of Oslo. 10 July 2012.
External links
[edit]- Ashk Dahlén - Official Website (in English)
- Ashk Dahlén - Uppsala University Archived 2022-07-02 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
- Interview with Ashk Dahlén - IntellectInterviews (in English)
- Ravānshād, Elāhe (29 October 2011). "Dāstān-e zendegi-ye yek su'edi". رادیو فردا (in Persian). Radio Farda. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- Luthersson, Peter (18 July 2016). "Om Nizami Aruzi med Ashk Dahlén" (in Swedish). Axess TV. Retrieved 1 November 2017.