Mahmoud Reza Eftekharzadeh
# Mahmoud Reza Eftekharzadeh

Mahmoud Reza Eftekharzadeh (in Persian :محمودرضا افتخارزاده ) (born 20 October 1954, in Birjand, South Khorasan Province - died 22 August 2021, in Tehran, Iran) was an Iranian writer, researcher and translator.

He wrote nearly 100 books, essays and articles about Iranology, Islamology & Iranian Mysticism. Some of them are textbooks. A lot of the works are translated from Arabic. He was a researcher in the history of Ancient Persia & Iran after Islam. His research in this area included: Iran; Religion & Culture, Islam & Iran; Religion & Nationality and Shoubiyyeh; The National Movement Resistance of Iran. He wrote more than 40 articles and critical studies about cultural, historical & civilizational background of Iran.

He was also an Islamologist and reader in the history of Islam. He believed that for Iranians, Islam cannot be segregated from Iranian culture and with the particular complexion it has, it is distinctly distinguishable from typical Arab way of life as is in vogue in Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E, Egypt, Syria and even the contiguous Iraq, hence his strong emphasis on Iranian Islam. In 1992 he wrote his Ph.D. (Doctor of philosophy in Islamic Shiite Studies) dissertation on: "Dissimulation in Imamite shiite from the first to the end of fifth century." At the same time he was accepted for (M.phil/ph.D) Degree in University of Manchester.

He translated original texts of Iranian Islamic mysticism such as: Al mavqef va Al mokhatabat (The legacy of The fourth century. by Al Neffari. 354 AD), Manarat al Saerin by Najm al Din al Razi (Iranian Sufi 654 AD), Al Reayeh le Hoquqellah by Hareth al Mahasebi (243 AD) and Tartib al Soluk by Abulqasem al Qoshayri (450AD).

