Prof. Amir Hossein Zekrgoo is a scholar-artist whose intellectual and creative life unfolds across the luminous intersections of art, spirituality, and civilisation. Trained as both a practitioner and historian of Islamic and Oriental arts, his work moves fluidly between studio and scholarship—where brush, script, and image become vessels of meaning.

With nearly three decades of teaching, he has shaped generations of students in painting, calligraphy, and photography, while advancing deeper inquiries into the symbolic and metaphysical dimensions of art. His scholarship extends across Persian mystical literature, comparative religion, and the aesthetics of sacred traditions, reflecting a rare synthesis of visual sensitivity and philosophical depth .

Educated in fine arts, Indian art, and manuscript studies across institutions in the United States, India, and beyond, his intellectual formation is profoundly trans-cultural. Fluent in multiple classical and modern languages, he navigates textual and artistic traditions with ease, drawing connections between worlds often studied in isolation.

Currently affiliated with the University of Melbourne, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, and University of Tehran, his work continues to explore the enduring dialogue between art and the sacred.

In his scholarship, art is not merely aesthetic—it is contemplative: a language through which the visible gestures toward the unseen, and form becomes a reflection of meaning itself.