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Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on April 7, 1933 in Tehran. His family was a respected family, close to the shah's family. His father, a physicist, was one of the figures who played a role in the establishment of the modern education system in Iran. He is the grandson of Fazlullah Nuri, whose mother was executed on the grounds that she was against the constitutional monarchy declared in 1909.
He started his university education in Tehran and graduated in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University. He received his master's degree in geophysics from Harvard University in 1956 and his doctorate in the history of science in 1958. He returned to Iran in 1958. He started working as an assistant at the faculty of literature at Tehran University. He was appointed dean of the same faculty in 1968. In 1972, he was appointed rector of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. In 1973, he was given the post of president of the Imperial Academy of Philosophy, which was established under the auspices of Shahbanu Farah Pevlevi.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, who continued his duties in the Islamic Republic of Iran established during and after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, went to the USA in 1984 and started working as a professor of Islamic sciences at George Washington University. After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, he left his country permanently and settled in the USA. Nasr, who also taught at Edinburgh and Temple universities, has been a professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University since 1984.
Seyyed Hussein Nasr is one of the important living representatives of the traditionalist philosophical movement.[2] His son Vali Nasr is considered among today's leading Middle East experts.