Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani Author

Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani (1854-1896) was an Iranian philosopher and intellectual. Born to a prosperous family in Kerman, Iran, Kermani spent the majority of his career in Istanbul where he became a prominent opponent of the Qajar monarchy. Influenced by Western science and thought and Islamic reform, he wrote numerous articles, political pamphlets, poems and philosophical and theological treatises before his execution by the Persian state.


Behzad Zerehdaran is a research fellow at Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. He is the author of Politics and Poetica of Rights in Modern Iran (2024). He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia.