Toshio Kuroda (August 27, 1933 - May 6, 2018) was Professor Emeritus of the International University of Japan of Islamic studies and translated many Islamic texts into Japanese. He was part of a group of academics invited to research Islamic topics at the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy in Tehran in 1974. There he studied and researched under the guidance of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Toshihiko Izutsu and Henry Corbin.
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