Sadegh Hedayat was an Iranian writer and translator. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career.
Hedayat's corpse in Paris, following his 9 April 1951 suicide
Tomb of Sadegh Hedayat, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
Dār ul-Funun is the oldest Western-style institute of higher education in Iran, established by the royal vizier to Nasereddin Shah in 1851.
Eastern gate of Dār ul-Funun in the Nāser Khosrow Street. The motto is inscribed on the upper part of the front face.