Jafar Shahidi
Jafar Shahidi known as Seyed Jafar Shahidi (Persian: سید جعفر شهیدی; 21 March 1919, in Borujerd – 13 January 2008, in Tehran) was a distinguished scholar of the Persian language and literature, and a renowned historian of Islam. Born in Boroujerd, Lorestan province, Iran, Shahidi dedicated his life to Persian studies, acting as the director of the Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute and International Center for Persian Studies (ICPS), serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at the University of Tehran (UT), and mastering the fields of jurisprudence and Islamic history.