Dariush Shayegan

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Dariush Shayegan is one of Iran's prominent thinkers.

He offers the following thesis as to why the Iranian intelligentsia were uninterested in democracy in 1979. According to Shayegan, Iranian leaders profoundly rejected Westernization, even though this rejection was itself driven by Western ideas such as existentialism, antimodernism, and Marxist revolutionary ideology. Over the past twenty years, however, Iranians have become intensely aware of the importance of human rights and democracy. In Shayegan's opinion, secular democracy now seems inevitable, given the widespread rejection of revolutionary ideology and the diffusion of sentiment in favor of human rights. For Shayegan, the only remaining questions are when and by what means Iranians will decide to close the book on the Islamic Republic.

He wrote a novel "Land of Mirage" in French and it won the ADELF award presented by the Association of French Authors on December 26, 2004. According to the Persian daily Aftab, Shayegan is well known in France for his books in the field of philosophy and mystics.