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Founded by Amir Kabir, then the royal vizier to Nasereddin Shah, the Shah of Persia, Dar al-Funun originally was conceived as a polytechnic to train upper-class Persian youth in medicine, engineering, military science, and geology.
Hadi Marzban (April 4, 1944 – December 2, 1404) stands among the pivotal figures whose …