Pattberg: Invitation to Iran

Video Footage from Iran tour in December 2012 re-emerged. Video at the CISSC Website Here. Visited five cultural centers and held talks at four key universities, in Tehran, Qom, Zahedan, and Kermanshah.

 "All cultures should compete for their terminologies like they compete for everything else."

 "We need a global language in order to communicate with each other; but that global language is not today's English. The future global language will have to adapt many more non-European concepts and vocabularies, words from China, Japan, India, and Iran."

"Most of the so-called dialogue among civilizations is in English language. What can foreign cultures do to contribute to global language?"

Thorsten Pattberg and Iranian Gholamreza Aavani in Beijing

"For the perfect mystic, a person that made this spiritual journey, God is never absent, never has been absent, once he reached there." – Gholamreza Aavani is a leading Islamic philosopher, historian of the Persian intellectual tradition, and the former head of the Iranian Academyfor Philosophy.

Prof. Aavani accepted the invitation of Tu Weiming to conduct research and teaching at PKU during spring term 2013. (IAHS, Peking University, April 3, 2013).

Pattberg visits Isfahan in Iran

Pattberg at Imam Mosque at Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan

My Iran Talks come to an end. Last day with Ahmadreza Doostdar from CISSC to Isfahan. Here I am sitting in the front court of the gargantuan Imam Mosque at Naghsh-i Jahan Square in the early foggy morning hours of Dec 06, 2012. Altogether we visited 5 great cultural centers of Persian/Iranian heritage. Magnificent.

Pattberg in Iran, 2012

On invitation of the Center for International Scientific Studies & Collaboration (CISSC), I visited five major cities and cultural centers in Iran - Tehran, Kermanshah, Zahedan, Qom, and Isfahan - and gave public talks at four key universities. (Nov 30 - Dec 08, 2012)

At Alzahra University in Tehran (CISSC)

Pattberg at The University of Sistan and Baluchestan in Kermanshah, Iran

Pattberg in Razi University in Zahedan, Iran

T Pattberg and A Torkamanzehi - Campus Visit, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran

Visit to the Grand Library of Ayatollah al-Uzma Marashi Najafi in the Holy City of Qom, Iran

Touching the tome of Ayatollah al-Uzma Marashi Najafi in the City of Qom in Iran

At the House of Imam Khomeini