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Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. Among his most recent books is The World of Persian Literary Humanism (2012). The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial policy.

Author articles

• Can non-Europeans think? What happens with thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical 'pedigree'?