A number of encounters made me think of the significance of #Hegel (1780-1831) as a bridge between premodern and modern philosophy in #Iran 1/ 
The first was Hamid Enayat (1932-1982) the political philosopher whose memory was still relevant when I was a grad student at #Oxford and who had translated #Hegel into #Persian 2/
The second was Karim Mojtahedy (d. 2019) whose work based on his #Sorbonne doctorate examined the #Qajar era encounter with #European philosophy and #Hegel starting in the circle of Comte de Gobineau (1816-1882), notorious race theorist and diplomat, in #Tehran 3/
The third was Farzin Vahdat whom I met at a conference in 2002 around the time his book came out and his assumption that #MullaSadra was basically #Hegel (or vice versa) 4/
Many works of #Hegel are available in #Persian including the Phenomenology of the Spirit and studies on it 5/
Most recently that relationship between #Hegel and his philosophy and #Iranian #intellectual_history has been taken up in two works published by #Intisharat_e_Hermes 6/
The taste for #Hegel like with #Kant no doubt follows partly a continental style engagement with the history of philosophy but also the taste for the grand narrative that one sees in #Avicenna #Suhrawardi and #MullaSadra 7/
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