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Hamid Algar is a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is a prolific writer on Persian and Arabic literature and contemporary history of Iran, Turkey, the Balkans and Afghanistan.

Hamid Algar was born in 1940 in UK. After earning his B.A. in Persian language at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was offered a scholarship to Tehran University in Iran. He then moved to Cambridge and defended his thesis in 1965.

He served on the UC Berkeley faculty for 45 years (from 1965 to 2010). Algar remains an active scholar and his research has concentrated on the Islamic history of the Perso-Turkish world, with particular emphasis on Iranian Shi'ism during the past two centuries and the Naqshbandi Sufi order.

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