Dariush Shayegan

Dariush Shayegan (;‎ 2 February 1935 – 22 March 2018) was an Iranian philosopher and cultural theorist. He wrote a novel "Land of Mirage" in French which won the ADELF award presented by the Association of French Authors on December 26, 2004. 
Shayegan, who studied with Henry Corbin in Paris, also has many pioneering works on Persian mysticism and mystic poetry. He was a founding director of the Iranian Center for the Studies of Civilizations.
In 2009 Shayegan was awarded the inaugural Global Dialogue Prize.
Shayegan died on 22 March 2018, at the age of 83 in Tehran of a stroke.