Nadia Maftouni

Nadia Maftouni
نادیا مفتونی
Born	(1966-01-14) 14 January 1966 (age 58) Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	NODET Sharif University of Technology Ferdowsi University of Mashhad University of Tehran
Spouse	Hossein Nuri
Children	2
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Islamic philosophy
Institutions	University of Tehran Yale Law School
Website	maftouni.ir

Nadia Maftouni (Persian: نادیا مفتونی, born 14 January 1966) is an Iranian academic, philosophical author and artist. She is best known as a leading Researcher on Farabian, Avicennian and Suhrawardian philosophy with her modern reading of their works.^[1] She is also an established researcher in Jurisprudence and Islamic History. She is an associate professor at University of Tehran, where she is an alumna and a member of the department of Philosophy and Islamic Theology.^[2] She is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School^[3] and she is on the board of History of Philosophy Quarterly.^[4][5] She is also famous for proposing to Iranian artist Hossein Nuri when he was already in a wheelchair.^[6]