[custom_adv] TEHRAN — Famed Iranian philosopher Dariush Shayegan, who challenged Western domination of philosophical thought and wrote the book “Cultural Schizophrenia” on the Muslim world and modernity, died on Thursday. He was 83. [custom_adv] Shayegan’s ideas on how civilizations communicate with each other, equally embraced by former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, earned the intellectual the 2009 Global Dialogue Prize in Denmark. [custom_adv] Despite having fled Iran following its 1979 Islamic Revolution, Shayegan had returned in recent years to live out his final days at home. Yet he never shied away from offering his opinions on a changing society within. [custom_adv] Despite having fled following its 1979 Islamic Revolution, Shayegan had returned in recent years to live out his final days at home. Yet he never shied away from offering his opinions on a changing society within. [custom_adv] After the 1979 revolution, Shayegan fled to Paris, where he wrote a number of books in French. He won the French ADELF award presented by the Association of French Authors in 2004 for his French novel “Land of Mirage.” [custom_adv] Shayegan’s ideas about cross-civilization communication appeared to be embraced by Iran’s Khatami, a reformist who served as president from 1997 to 2005. Both challenged American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington’s idea that cultural and religious identities would lead to a “clash of civilizations.” [custom_adv] The funeral of Dariush Shayegan in the center of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia was started on Monday, April 6, and at the end of the ceremony, after Sayyid Mostafa Mohaqiq Damad, made Mitt prayers on the body of the late Shaygan, he brought Shayegan to his eternal home in the piece Artists of Paradise Zahra were laughing. [custom_adv] However, the intellectual Shayegan maintained a sense of humor and grace. He also told the Financial Times: “Tolerance is accepting the other and taming your ego.” He is survived by his son Rahim Shayegan, a Harvard-educated professor of history at UCLA.
