Javad Tabatabai

Javad Tabatabai (* 1945 in Tabriz ) is an Iranian philosopher and author.

Life and work

Tabatabai earned his doctorate in political philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne with a thesis on Hegel. He was guest fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin and at Syracuse University. He has published several books on the history of political ideas in Europe and in Iran.

Tabatabai is Emeritus Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Tehran.

In 1995 he was made a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Works

• An introduction to the history of political thought in Iran
• The demise of political thought in Iran
• Ibn Khaldun and the social sciences: essay on conditions of impossibility of the social sciences in Islamic civilization
• Nizam al -Mulk and Iranian political thought: essay on continuity of Iranian thinking
• One consideration on Iran (1): An introduction to the theory of the demise of Iran
• One consideration about Iran (2A ): Täbriser school and the foundation of the modern
• One consideration about Iran (2B ): The basis of the constitutional theory - theory of law in Iran
• History of political thought in Europe (1 ) dispute between the Old and the New - Renaissance ( 1500) to the French Revolution (1789 )