Alessandro Bausani
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Alessandro Bausani (May 1921 - March 1988) was born in Rome in May 1921, he was one of the greatest Italian scholars of Islam, and translator and commentator of one of the most important Italian language versions of the Koran.
He embraced the Bahá'í Faith in Rome in April of 1950. He was the Director of both the 'School of Oriental Studies' as well as the 'Institute of Islamic Studies' at the University of Rome. From 1971 to the end of his life he was the Chair of Islamic Studies.
His academic specializations included linguistics, astronomy, mathematics and the history of Islamic science. He was a member of the National Academy, 'Lincei' and received many awards for his scholarship, a prominent one being 'Sitara-Imtiyaz' from the government of Pakistan in 1967.
At his death in March 1988 a bibliographic listing of his work included 329 items.
[edit] Publications
- L’Qur’án (1955)
- Poesia di Muhammad Iqbal (1956)
- Quartine (1956)
- L’Opera poetica di Ibn Sina (1956)
- Testi religiosi Zoroastriani (1957)
- Storia della Letterature del Pakistan (1958)
- Persiana Religiosa (1959) trans as Religion in Iran (2000)
- Storia della Letterature del Persiana (1960)
- I Persiani (1962)
- Malesia: Poesia e Leggende (1963)
- Le sette principesse (1967)
- Storia della letterature del Sud-Est Asiatico (1971)
- Buddha (1973)
- Appinti di Astronomia e Astrologia arabo islamiche (1977)
- L’encyclopedia dei Fratelli della Pirta (1979)
- L’Islam (1980)
- Poesia mistiche of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1980)
- Saffi sulla Fede Bahá’í (1991)
[edit] References
- Bahá’í World, Vol XX, 1986-1992, Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1998, p. 895.
