Nakosteen, Mehdi Khan, 1904-

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Mehdi Nakosteen (1904-1982), born in Iran, received his doctorate from Cornell University and was Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Nakosteen was a scholar of medieval Persian poetry and author of such works as Dust and Destiny and Selected Persian Poems (1967) and Sufism and Human Destiny and Sufi Thought in Persian Poetry (1977). His works also include a number of translations such as The Ghazaliyyat of Haafez of Shiraz (1977) and The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam (1973).

From the guide to the Mehdi Nakosteen's Pertinent Facts of Translators of Arabic Works into Latin, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, Catalan and Greek (MS 155), 1962, (University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.)

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