Abdoldjavad Falaturi (1926–1996) (Persian: عبدالجواد فلاطوری) was a German scholar of Iranian origin.
He attended a German-Persian high school in his hometown of Isfahan and took private lessons in Arabic literature and Islamic studies.
While in Germany, Falaturi studied a variety of courses, including philosophy, psychology, comparative religion, Greek, and Latin; he earned his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1962.
He played a significant role in developing the Shiite collection in the University of Cologne's Oriental Department beginning in 1965.
[2] He co-established the Islamic Academy for Research into the Interrelationships with Western Intellectual History and Culture in Cologne; formed in 1978) and was a founding member of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (created in 1986).