Jamshid Farooqi was born on March 25, 1335 in Tehran. They spent their childhood and teenage years in Abadan. After studying in Abadan city, he came to Tehran and started studying economics at National University. After finishing his studies, he immigrated to Germany and then studied philosophy, modern European history, medieval history and ancient history at the University of Cologne. After that, he studied contemporary Iranian history at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and by writing a thesis on “Government, Legitimacy and Charisma in Modern Iran”, he succeeded in obtaining a doctorate from this university. Jamshid Farooqi currently lives in Germany.
