Mohammad Ali Eslami Nadushan, a prominent Iranian writer and researcher, has died at the age of 97.

Mohammad Ali Eslami Nadushan, a prominent Iranian writer and researcher who lived in Canada, died on May 25 at the age of 97.

Shirin Bayani, the wife of Mr. Eslami Nadushan, announced that this cultural figure "was not sick" and said that his body will be buried in Canada "in an Islamic manner."

Mohammad Ali Eslami Nadushan was born in September 1925 in Nadushan, Yazd, and completed his education up to the third grade of high school in Yazd. Then, in 1944, he went to Tehran to continue his studies and received a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Tehran. He received his doctorate in international law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris.

Mr. Eslami Nadushan returned to Iran in 1955 and served as a judge for several years. After leaving this job, he began teaching at the University of Tehran and over a period of 50 years, he wrote more than 50 books and hundreds of articles on Iranian culture and history and Persian literature.

Some of his works include: The Neverending Story of Hafez, Four Spokesmen of Iran's Conscience, The Life and Death of Heroes in the Shahnameh, The Story of Stories, The Shadow-Casting Cypress, Iran and the World from the Perspective of the Shahnameh, The Famous Letter, Let's Not Forget Iran, Following the Shadow of Homay, Mentioning the Benefits of Human Rights in the Third World, Let's Hear the Words, Iran and Its Solitude, What Does Iran Have to Say?

Mr. Eslami Ndoshan had been living in Canada with his children in recent years.

Source: Radio Farda