Dariush Shayegan
Dariush Shayegan (Persian: داریوش شایگان; 24 January 1935 – 22 March 2018) was one of the most consequential thinkers of contemporary Iran and the Near East. == Life and career == He was born in Tabriz from a Shia Iranian Azeri father and a Georgian Sunni mother; his mother descended from an aristocratic family from Georgia.