# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hamid-algar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:59:43.447Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hamid-algar"
name: "Hamid Algar"
slug: "hamid-algar"
description: "Hamid Algar is a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He writes on Islamic topics, Persian and Arabic literature and the history of Iran, Turkey, the Balkans and Afghanistan. He served on the UC Berkeley faculty for 45 years, 1965 to 2010. Algar remains an active scholar and his research has concentrated on the Islamic history of the Perso-Turkish world, with particular emphasis on Iranian Shi'ism during the past two centuries, and the Naqshbandi Sufi order."
tagline: "British-American Iranologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Hamid Algar"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump