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Iranian studies

Index Iranian studies

Iranian studies (ايران‌شناسی), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. [1]

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Abbas Alizadeh

. Abbas Alizadeh (born 1951) is an Iranologist and Persian archaeologist.

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Abbas Milani

Abbas Malekzadeh Milani (عباس ملک‌زاده میلانی; born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian and author.

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Abbas Zaryab

Abbas Zaryab or 'Abbās Zaryāb (August 13, 1919 – February 3, 1995) (عباس زریاب) was a historian, translator, literature Professor and Iranologist.

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Abbasgulu Bakikhanov

Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (Abbasqulu ağa Bakıxanov Qüdsi) (21 June 1794, Amirjan – 31 May 1847, Wadi Fatima, near Jeddah), Abbas Qoli Bakikhanov, or Abbas-Qoli ibn Mirza Mohammad (Taghi) Khan Badkubi was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher.

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Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob

Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub (Luri/Persian: عبدالحسین زرین‌کوب, also Romanized as Zarrinkoob, Zarrinkub) (March 17, 1923 – September 15, 1999) was a scholar of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history.

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Abdul Hai Habibi

Abdul Hai Habibi (عبدالحى حبيبي, عبدالحی حبیبی) – ʿAbd' ul-Ḥay Ḥabībi) (1910 – 9 May 1984) was a prominent Afghan historian for much of his lifetime as well as a member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan (Afghan Parliament) during the reign of King Zahir Shah. A Pashtun nationalist from Kakar tribe of Kandahar, Afghanistan, he began as a young teacher who made his way up to become a writer, scholar, politician and Dean of Faculty of Literature at Kabul University. He is the author of over 100 books but is best known for editing Pata Khazana, an "old" Pashto language manuscript that he claimed to have "discovered" in 1944; the academic community, however, does not acknowledge the manuscript as genuine.

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Academy of Persian Language and Literature

The Academy of Persian Language and Literature (acronym: APLL) (فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی) is the official regulatory body of the Persian language, headquartered in Tehran, Iran.

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Achaemenid architecture

Achaemenid architecture (Persian: معماری هخامنشیان) includes all architectural achievements of the Achaemenid Persians manifesting in construction of spectacular cities used for governance and inhabitation (Persepolis, Susa, Ecbatana), temples made for worship and social gatherings (such as Zoroastrian temples), and mausoleums erected in honor of fallen kings (such as the burial tomb of Cyrus the Great).

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Achaemenid Assyria

Athura (𐎠𐎰𐎢𐎼𐎠 Aθurā), also called Assyria Babylonia, was a geographical area within the Persian Achaemenid Empire held by the last nobility of Aššur (Akkadian), known as Athura (Neo-Aramaic) or Atouria (Greek), during the period of 539 BC to 330 BC as a military protectorate state of Persia under the rule of Cyrus the Great.

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Acta Iranica

Acta Iranica is a periodical on Iranian studies published mainly in French, English and German.

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Adrian David Hugh Bivar

Adrian David Hugh Bivar (abbreviated A.D.H. Bivar) (1926 - 2015) was an Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (احمد کریمی حکاک, born in Mashhad, Iran) is a Persian literary figure and Iranist.

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Ahmad Tafazzoli

Ahmad Tafazzoli (16 December 1937, Isfahan – January 15, 1997, Tehran) (احمد تفضلی) was a prominent Iranian Iranist and master of ancient Iranian literature and culture.

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Aleksander Chodźko

Aleksander Borejko Chodźko (30 August 1804 – 27 December 1891) was a Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist.

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Ali Ansari

Ali Massoud Ansari (علی مسعود انصاری, born 24 November 1967 in Rome) is the Professor in Modern History with reference to the Middle East at St. Andrews University in Scotland, where he is also the founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies.

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Ali Dehbashi

Ali Dehbashi (علی دهباشی) is an Iranian journalist, Iranologist, researcher and writer.

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Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda

Allameh Ali Akbar Dehkhodā (علی‌اکبر دهخدا; 1879–March 9, 1956) was a prominent Iranian linguist, and author of Dehkhoda dictionary, the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language ever published.

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Alireza Shapour Shahbazi

Alireza Shapour Shahbazi (4 September 1942 Shiraz - 15 July 2006 Walla Walla, Washington) (علیرضا شاپور شهبازی) was a prominent Persian archeologist, Iranologist and a world expert on Achaemenid archeology.

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American Institute of Iranian Studies

The American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) is a non-profit consortium of US universities and museums, founded in 1967, for the purpose of promoting Iranian and Persian studies.

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Amir-Hossein Aryanpour

Amir-Hossein Aryanpour (February 27, 1925, Tehran – July 30, 2001, Tehran) (امیرحسین آریانپور) was an Iranian lexicographer, writer, translator, philosopher, sociologist, and literary figure.

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Andrew J. Newman

Andrew J. Newman is a reader in Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh.

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Annemarie Schimmel

Annemarie Schimmel (7 April 1922 – 26 January 2003) was an influential German Orientalist and scholar who wrote extensively on Islam and Sufism.

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Architecture of Tehran

Tehran has grown dramatically since Mohammad Khan Qajar chose it as the capital of the Qajar dynasty in 1796.

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Area studies

Area studies (also: regional studies) are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural regions.

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Ashk Dahlén

Ashk Peter Dahlén (born 3 June 1972 in Tehran) is a Swedish Iranologist, scholar, linguist, and translator of classical Persian literature.

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Asian studies

Asian studies, a term used usually in North America for Oriental studies and is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics.

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Association for Iranian Studies

The Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) is a private, non-profit academic organization founded in 1967 in the United States, though it now counts upwards of 1,000 members around the world.

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Assyrian continuity

Assyrian continuity is the claim by modern Assyrians and supporting academics that they are at root the direct descendants of the Semitic inhabitants who spoke originally Akkadian and later Imperial Aramaic of ancient Assyria and its immediate surrounds.

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Assyriology

Assyriology (from Greek Ἀσσυρίᾱ, Assyriā; and -λογία, -logia) is the archaeological, historical, and linguistic study of not just Assyria, but the entirety of ancient Mesopotamia (a region encompassing what is today modern Iraq, north eastern Syria, south eastern Turkey, and north western and south western Iran) and of related cultures that used cuneiform writing.

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Bagher Najafi

Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Najafi Shoushtari (January 1948 – July 2002) was a prominent Iranian scholar of Iranian Studies, in particular Iranian art and culture, and Islamic Studies.

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Bert Fragner

Bert G. Fragner (born 1941) is an Austrian Iranologist.

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Bo Utas

Bo Utas, born May 26, 1938 in Höglunda, a village in Jämtland, Sweden, is a Swedish linguist, Iranologist and chess historian.

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Brenda Shaffer

Brenda Shaffer is an American-Israeli scholar who currently holds positions as visiting researcher and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, fellow with the Atlantic Council and professor at University of Haifa (on sabbatical).

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Bukhara magazine

Bukhara magazine is a Persian-language magazine published in Tehran and published and edited by Ali Dehbashi.

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Chain murders of Iran

The Chain Murders of Iran (Persian:قتلهای زنجیره ای), or Serial Murders, were a series of 1988–98 murders and disappearances of certain Iranian dissident intellectuals who had been critical of the Islamic Republic system in some way by Iranian government internal operatives.

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Charles Chipiez

Charles Chipiez (1835–1901) was an influential French architect, Egyptologist, Iranologist, and an avid historian of the ancient world's architecture.

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Clifford Edmund Bosworth

Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA (29 December 1928 – 28 February 2015) was an English historian and Orientalist, specialising in Arabic and Iranian studies.

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Culture of Iran

The culture of Iran (Farhang-e Irān), also known as culture of Persia, is one of the oldest in the world.

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Cyrus

Cyrus is the given name of a number of Persian kings.

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Cyrus Cylinder

The Cyrus Cylinder (Ostovane-ye Kūrosh) or Cyrus Charter (منشور کوروش) is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of Persia's Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great.

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Daniel Semyonovich Komissarov

Daniel Samuilovich (Semyonovich) Komissarov (1907, Bokhara-2008) is a renowned Russian Iranologist and distinguished professor of Persian literature.

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Dariush Shayegan

Dariush Shayegan (داریوش شایگان; 2 February 1935 – 22 March 2018) was an Iranian philosopher and cultural theorist.

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Dastur al-Muluk

Dastūr al-Mulūk (دستور الملوک) is one of only three surviving administrative handbooks from early 18th-century Safavid Iran and an important research tool for scholars in Iranology.

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David Alliance, Baron Alliance

David Alliance, Baron Alliance, CBE (داوود آلیانس, דייוויד אליאנס; born 15 June 1932) is an Iranian-British businessman and Liberal Democrat politician of Jewish origin from Iran.

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David Neil MacKenzie

David Neil MacKenzie FBA (8 April 1926 – 13 October 2001) was a scholar of Iranian languages.

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Davud Monshizadeh

Davud Monshizadeh (داوود منشی‌زاده; 29 August 1915 in Tehran – 1989 in Uppsala, Sweden) was the founder of SUMKA (the "Iranian National Socialist Workers Party") and a supporter of Nazi ideology in Germany during World War II and in Iran after the war.

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Deioces

Deioces or Dia—oku was the founder and the first shah as well as priest of the Median government.

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Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft

The Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society), abbreviated DMG, is a scholarly organization dedicated to Oriental studies, that is, to the study of the languages and cultures of the Near East and the Far East, the broader Orient, Asia, Oceania, and Africa.

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Digor people

The Digor (Digor dialect: дигорон - digoron, pl.: дигорæ, дигорæнттæ - digoræ, digorænttæ; Iron dialect: дыгурон - dyguron, pl.: дыгур, дыгурæттæ - dygur, dygurættæ) are a subgroup of the Ossetians.

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Edmund Herzig

Edmund Martin Herzig (born February 1958) is a British professor, historian, and author.

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Egyptology

Egyptology (from Egypt and Greek -λογία, -logia. علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD.

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Ehsan Yarshater

Ehsan Yarshater (احسان يارشاطر, born April 3, 1920) is the founder and director of The Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University.

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Elton L. Daniel

Elton L. Daniel, Ph.D., is a historian and Iranologist.

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Encyclopaedia Islamica

The Encyclopedia Islamica is a new encyclopedia on Islamic and Iranian studies published by Brill, comprising a projected 16-volume translation of selected articles from the new Persian Dā'erat-ol-Ma'āref-e Bozorg-e Eslāmi (دائرةالمعارف بزرگ اسلامی, "The Great Islamic Encyclopaedia"), supplemented by additional articles written in English by scholars affiliated with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

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Encyclopædia Iranica

Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.

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Ernst Herzfeld

Ernst Emil Herzfeld (23 July 1879 – 20 January 1948) was a German archaeologist and Iranologist.

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Ernst Kuhn

Ernst Wilhelm Adalbert Kuhn (7 February 1846, in Berlin – 21 August 1920, in Munich) was a German Indologist and Indo-Europeanist.

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Farshid Delshad

Farshid Delshad (Persian: فرشید دلشاد) is an affiliated researcher and scholar of linguistic and Iranian Studies.

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Fatemeh Shams

Fatemeh Shams, also known as "Shahrzad F. Shams" (Persian: فاطمه شمس) is a contemporary Persian poet, translator and literary scholar wh is currently living in Philadelphia, United States and teaching Persian literature at She previously taught Persian literature and language in Oxford University,where she has also studied as a Clarendon Scholar, SOAS and Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House and University of SOAS in the United Kingdom.

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Ferdowsi

Abu ʾl-Qasim Firdowsi Tusi (c. 940–1020), or Ferdowsi (also transliterated as Firdawsi, Firdusi, Firdosi, Firdausi) was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is the world's longest epic poem created by a single poet, and the national epic of Greater Iran.

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Ferdowsi millennial celebration

The Ferdowsi millennial celebration (جشن هزاره فردوسی) was a series of celebrations and scholarly events in the year 1934 to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of Ferdowsi's birth.

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Fereydoun Djam

Fereydoun Djam (1914 – 24 May 2008; فريدون جم) was a senior Iranian army official, and the son of former Iranian prime minister Mahmoud Djam.

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Fereydun Adamiyat

Fereydun Adamiyat or Fereidoon Adamiyat (1920 in Tehran – March 29, 2008) (فریدون آدمیت) was a leading social historian of contemporary Iran and particularly the Qajar era.

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Finn Thiesen

Finn Vilhelm Thiesen (born August 4, 1941 in Kongens Lyngby near Copenhagen) is a Danish–Norwegian linguist, iranist and translator.

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Firdeusi Institute

Firdeusi (eng: Ferdowsi) Institute for Iranian and Persian Studies is a non-for-profit and non-governmental organisation, which scientific and research activity is conducted autonomously, and is not biased by political or religious matters.

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Foundation for Democracy in Iran

The Foundation for Democracy in Iran is a U.S. organization.

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Foundation for Iranian Studies

The Foundation for Iranian Studies is a non-profit institution dedicated to educating the public about Iran.

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Friedrich Carl Andreas

Friedrich Carl Andreas (14 April 1846 in Batavia – 3 October 1930 in Göttingen) was an orientalist of German, Malay and Armenian parentage.

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George Michael Wickens

George Michael Wickens was a distinguished Canadian-British Persianist as well as Arabist, translator and a University lecturer.

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Gilbert Lazard

Gilbert Lazard (born in Paris, 4 February 1920) is a French linguist and iranologist.

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Golbarg Bashi

Golbarg Bashi (گلبرگ باشی.), born in Ahvaz, Iran, is an Iranian-Swedish feminist professor of Iranian Studies at Rutgers University in the US.

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Greater Iran

Greater Iran (ایران بزرگ) is a term used to refer to the regions of the Caucasus, West Asia, Central Asia, and parts of South Asia that have significant Iranian cultural influence due to having been either long historically ruled by the various imperial dynasties of Persian Empire (such as those of the Medes, Achaemenids, Parthians, Sassanians, Samanids, Safavids, and Afsharids and the Qajars), having considerable aspects of Persian culture due to extensive contact with the various imperial dynasties of Iran (e.g., those regions and peoples in the North Caucasus that were not under direct Iranian rule), or are simply nowadays still inhabited by a significant amount of Iranic peoples who patronize their respective cultures (as it goes for the western parts of South Asia, Bahrain and Tajikistan).

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Gulrukhsor Safieva

Golrokhsar Safi (Гулрухсор Сафиева گلرخسار صفی‌اوا) (born 1947) is a prominent Iranologist, Persian literary figure and Tajikistan's national poet.

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Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi (حمید دباشی; born 1951) is an Iranian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.

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Hans Heinrich Schaeder

Hans Heinrich Schaeder (* 31. January 1896 in Göttingen; † 13. March 1957) was a German orientalist and Iranologist.

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Heidemarie Koch

Heidemarie Koch (December 17, 1943 in Merseburg) is a German Iranologist.

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Henrik Samuel Nyberg

Henrik Samuel (H.S.) Nyberg (28 December 1889 – 9 February 1974) was a Swedish scholar of broad interest and a well known expert of Iranology and Arab studies.

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Henry Corbin

Henry Corbin (14 April 1903 – 7 October 1978) was a philosopher, theologian, Iranologist and professor of Islamic Studies at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, France.

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Higher education in Iran

Iran has a large network of private, public, and state affiliated universities offering degrees in higher education.

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Higher Institute of Iranian Studies

Higher Institute of Iranian Studies (French: Institut Supérieur d'Etudes Iraniennes) is a research and higher education.

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History of the Iranian Americans in Los Angeles

Los Angeles (and Southern California in general) is home to a large Iranian-American community.

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Homa Katouzian

Homa Katouzian, (born Homayoun Katouzian, Persian: همايون کاتوزیان‎, on 17 November 1942 in Tehran) is an economist, historian, political scientist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies.

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Hossein Abadian

Hossein Abadian (born January 22, 1962 in Lar, Iran) is a contemporary Persian Iranologist and historian.

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Hossein Ziai

Hossein Ziai (July 6, 1944 – August 24, 2011) was a professor of Islamic Philosophy and Iranian Studies at UCLA where he held the inaugural Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies until his passing.

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Houchang Chehabi

Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi, PhD, is leading scholar of Iranian studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where he is Professor of International Relations and History.

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Hudson Heights, Manhattan

Hudson Heights is a residential neighborhood of the Washington Heights area of Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Igor M. Diakonoff

Igor Mikhailovich Diakonoff (И́горь Миха́йлович Дья́конов; 12 January 1915 – 2 May 1999) was a Russian historian, linguist, and translator and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East and its languages.

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Ilya Gershevitch

Ilya Gershevitch (born 1914 in Zürich, died 2001 in Cambridge) was a noted expert on Iran.

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Institute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan

Institute of Manuscripts named after Muhammad Fuzuli (Əlyazmalar İnstitutu) is a scientific centre of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and this center is engaged in scientific-research, archive and library science activities, realizes collection, systematization, security, study, translation and publication of medieval manuscripts.

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Iraj Afshar

Iraj Afshar (8 October 1925 – 9 March 2011) (ایرج افشار) was a bibliographer, historian, and an iconic figure in the field of Persian studies.

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Iran (disambiguation)

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a country in Southern and Western Asia.

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Iran film foundation

The Iran Film Foundation is a non-political UK unregistered charity with a mission to promote and preserve the cinematic history of the Persian speaking world.

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Iran Heritage Foundation

The Iran Heritage Foundation is a non-political UK registered charity with a mission to promote and preserve the history, languages and cultures of Iran and the Persianate world.

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Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies

Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Iranian studies.

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Iran–United States relations

As of 2018, there are no formal diplomatic relations between Iran and the United States.

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Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame

Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame or Ever-lasting Names/ People Literally Unforgettable Faces (چهره‌های ماندگار; read as "Čehre-hā-ye Māndegār") is an annual formal ceremony to honor influential contemporary scientific and cultural Eminents.

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Iranian Studies (journal)

Iranian Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering Iranian and Persianate history, literature, and society published by Routledge on behalf of the International Society for Iranian Studies.

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Iranica Antiqua

Iranica Antiqua is a scholarly journal publishing papers on ancient Iran in its broadest sense.

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Iranshenasi

Iran Shenasi also spelled as "Iranshinasi" (ایران شناسی) is an academic journal of Iranian studies.

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Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin

Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin (Иван Иванович Зарубин) (27 September 1887 – 3 February 1964) was a Soviet specialist of Iranian languages, particularly Pamir languages.

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Jafar Shahidi

Jafar Shahidi known as Seyed Jafar Shahidi (سیدجعفر شهیدی) (March 21, 1919 in Borujerd, Iran – January 13, 2008 in Tehran) was a distinguished scholar of the Persian language and literature and a renowned historian of Islam.

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Jalal Matini

Jalal Matini (جلال متینی) (born 1928) is a scholar of Persian literature, particularly the epic Shahnameh by Ferdowsi, and Iranian studies.

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Jalal Sattari

Jalal Sattari (Persian: جلال ستّاری) is an Iranologist, mythologist, writer and translator.

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Jaleh Amouzgar

Amouzgar in Tehran, 2013 Jaleh Amouzgar (ژاله آموزگار, born 2 December 1939 in Khoy, West Azerbaijan) is a world-class Iranist and a university professor.

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James R. Russell

James Robert Russell (born in October, 1953, New York City) is a scholar and professor in Ancient Near Eastern, Iranian and Armenian Studies.

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Jamshid Giunashvili

Jamshid Giunashvili (ჯემშიდ გიუნაშვილი; 1 May 1931 – 21 January 2017) was a Georgian linguist, Iranologist, researcher, author, and diplomat, having served as the first ambassador of Georgia to Iran for a period of ten years.

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Jan Rypka

Jan Rypka, PhDr., Dr.Sc. (28 May 1886 in Kroměříž – 29 December 1968 in Prague) was a prominent Czech orientalist, translator, professor of Iranology and Turkology at Charles University, Prague.

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Jean de Menasce

Jean de Menasce (1902–1973) was a French Catholic priest, of the Dominican Order, as well as an author and academic.

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Jerry Clinton

Jerome (Jerry) Wright Clinton (1937 - November 7, 2003) was a Ferdowsi scholar and Professor of Persian language and literature at Princeton University.

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Johannes Benzing

Johannes Benzing (* Schwenningen 13 January 1913, † 16 March 2001) was a German Turkic specialist and Diplomat in the era of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Joseph Orbeli

Joseph Orbeli (Հովսեփ Աբգարի Օրբելի, Hovsep Abgari Orbeli; Иосиф Абгарович Орбели, Iosif Abgarovich Orbeli; 20 March (O.S. 8 March) 1887 – 2 February 1961) was a Soviet-Armenian orientalist and academician, who specialized in medieval history of Southern Caucasus and administered the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad from 1934 to 1951.

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Journal of Persianate Studies

Journal of Persianate Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing articles on the culture of a vast geographical area (including Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, as well as the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and parts of the former Ottoman Empire) where the Persian language has or has had a significant presence.

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Ka'ba-ye Zartosht

Ka'ba-ye Zartosht is the name of a stone quadrangular and stepped structure in the Naqsh-e Rustam compound beside Zangiabad village in Marvdasht county in Fars, Iran.

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Kamran Talattof

Kamran Talattof is a professor of Persian and Iranian studies at the University of Arizona His focus of research is gender, ideology, culture, and language, with an emphasis on literature (Modern and Classical); contemporary Islamic issues, Middle Eastern culture; and the Persian language.

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Khosro Naghed

Khosro Naghed (خسرو ناقد, born 1950 Shiraz, Iran) is a Persian writer, Iranist and linguist.

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Khosrow Shakeri Zand

Khosrow Shakeri Zand (Persian خسرو شاکری زند), also known under his pen name Cosroe Chaqueri (July 3, 1938 – June 30, 2015) was a historian, researcher, writer and activist of the Human Rights movement of Iran.

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Khudoyor Yusufbekov

Khudoyor Yusufbekovich Yusufbekov (Худоер Юсуфбекович Юсуфбеков Худоёр Юсуфбеков December 10, 1928 – November 27, 1990) was the soviet scientist and organizer science in Pamir.

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Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (politician)

Konstantine "Koko" Gamsakhurdia (კონსტანტინე გამსახურდია) (born June 24, 1961) is a Georgian politician and an Iranist.

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Kroměříž

Kroměříž (Kremsier, Kromieryż) is a Moravian town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic.

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List of academic fields

The following outline is provided as an overview of an topical guide to academic disciplines: An academic discipline or field of study is known as a branch of knowledge.

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List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (S)

The following is a list of some notable Légion d'honneur recipients by name.

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List of University of Birmingham alumni

This is a list of notable alumni related to the University of Birmingham and its predecessors, Mason Science College and Queen's College, Birmingham.

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List of University of California, Berkeley alumni in academia

This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley.

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List of University of Toronto people

The following is a list of notable persons affiliated with the University of Toronto, including alumni, chancellors, presidents, and current and former faculty members.

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List of words ending in ology

† not study.

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Loiq Sher-Ali

Loiq Sher-Ali (1941 - 2000, in Tajiki/Persian: Лоиқ Шералӣ/لائق شیرعلی) was a Tajik poet, Iranologist and one of the most celebrated Persian literary figures of Tajikistan and central Asia.

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Mahdi Ahouie

Mahdi Ahouie (born 1977 in Tehran) is an Iranian political scientist and Assistant Professor of international politics and head of the Department of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran.

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Mahmoud Reza Eftekharzadeh

Mahmoud Reza Eftekharzadeh (in Persian:محمودرضا افتخارزاده) (born 20 October 1954, in Birjand, South Khorasan Province) is an Iranian writer, researcher and translator.

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Mana Aghaee

Mana Aghaee (مانا آقایی), born in 1973 in Bushehr, Iran, is a distinguished Persian poet, translator, podcast producer, and scholar of Iranian Studies.

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Marek Smurzyński

Marek Smurzyński (1954–2009) was a Polish translator, Persian Language speaker and translator, Persian literature expert and an Iranologist.

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Marijan Mole

Marijan Molé (Ljubljana, 28 July 1924–Paris, 6 May 1963) was a Slovenian-Polish scholar of Middle and Modern Iranian studies, who also contributed to the fields of Islamic and particularly Sufi studies.

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Mary Boyce

Nora Elisabeth Mary Boyce (2 August 1920 – 4 April 2006) was a British scholar of Iranian languages, and an authority on Zoroastrianism.

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Mehdi Jami

Mehdi Jami, born February 1961 in Mashhad, is an Iranian journalist.

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Mehemed Malmîsanij

Mehmet Tayfun alias Malmîsanij (Diyarbakır, 1952) is a Zazaki-Kurdish author and linguist.

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Mehrdad Bahar

Mehrdād Bahār (مهرداد بهار) (b. 1930, in Tehran; d. 13 November 1994, in Tehran) was a prominent Iranist, linguist, mythologist and Persian historian.

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Menashe Amir

Menashe Amir (מנשה אמיר, born 27 December 1940) is a long time Persian language broadcaster on Israel Radio International, a channel of Kol Yisrael (lit. "Voice of Israel").

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Michael Roaf

Michael Roaf is a British archaeologist specialising in ancient Iranian studies and Assyriology.

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Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi

Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi (میرجلال‌الدین کزازی; born 19 January 1949) is an outstanding master of Persian literature and a renowned Iranist.

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Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami

Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami is a literary critic, writer and Iranologist.

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Mohammad Moin

Mohammad Moin (Mohamad Moin, also his surname could be transliterated as Mo'in) (July 12, 1914, Rasht, Iran — July 4, 1971, Tehran, Iran) was a prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature and Iranian Studies.

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Mohsen Milani

Mohsen Milani is a political scientist, foreign policy analyst, public commentator and professor of politics.

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Muhammadjon Shakuri

Muhammadjon Shakuri (Муҳаммадҷон Шакурӣ, محمدجان شکوری; February, 1925, Bukhara – September 16, 2012, Dushanbe), also known as Muhammad Sharifovich Shukurov, was a prominent Tajik intellectual and one of the notable literary figures of the Persian language of the 20th century.

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Nina Dyakonova

Nina Yakovlevna Dyakonova (also spelled Diakonova; Нина Яковлевна Дьяконова; born Magaziner; October 20, 1915, Petrograd, Russian Empire - December 9, 2013, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) was a Russian researcher of 19 century English and European literature, full professor, Doctor of Philology, member of the Board of Directors of the International Byron Society, member of the editorial board of the Russian academic book series Literaturniye pamyatniki.

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Oriental studies

Oriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent years the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies.

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Outline of academic disciplines

An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched as part of higher education.

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Outline of Iran

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Iran: Iran – sovereign country located in Southwest Asia and the Middle East.

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Painting of the Six Kings

The Painting of the Six Kings is a fresco found on the wall of Qasr Amra, a desert castle of the Umayyad Caliphate located in modern-day Jordan.

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Parviz Natel-Khanlari

Parviz Natel Khanlari (1914 in Tehran, Iran – August 23, 1990 in Tehran) (پرویز ناتل خانلری), was an Iranian literary scholar, linguist, author, researcher and professor at Tehran University.

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Pata Khazana

Pata Khazāna (پټه خزانه – The Hidden Treasure, alternative transcriptions: Peta Khazāna, Pota Khazana, Pata Xazāna) is the title of a disputed manuscript written in Pashto language.

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Patrick Clawson

Patrick Lyell Clawson (born March 30, 1951) is an American economist and Middle East scholar.

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Paul Schwarz

Paul Schwarz (19 November 1867, in Neisse – 28 December 1938, in Torgau) was a German orientalist, Iranist and Arabist.

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Persian Gulf Studies Center

The Persian Gulf Studies Center (مرکز مطالعات خلیج فارس) abbreviated to PGSC, is an Institute of historical, geographical, geopolitical and strategic studies of the Persian gulf.

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Persian literature

Persian literature (ادبیات فارسی adabiyāt-e fārsi), comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and it is one of the world's oldest literatures.

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Persian studies

Persian studies is the study of the Persian language and its literature specifically.

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Peter Avery

Peter William Avery OBE (15 May 1923 – 6 October 2008) was an eminent British scholar of Persian and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

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Pierre Briant

Pierre Briant (born September 30, 1940 in Angers) is a French Iranologist, Professor of History and Civilisation of the Achaemenid World and the Empire of Alexander the Great at the Collège de France (1999 onwards), Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Chicago, and founder of the website achemenet.com.

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Piruz Nahavandi

Piruz Nahavandi also spelled Pirouz Nahawandi (پیروز نهاوندی, Pīruz Nahāvandī or فیروز نهاوندی Fīruz Nahāvandī), also known by the Arabic teknonymy Abu Lululah (أَبُو لُؤْلُؤَة) was a Persian Sasanian general who served under the chief-commander of the Sassanian army Rostam Farrokhzad, but was captured in the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah (or Battle of Nahavand) in 636 CE when the Sasanians were defeated by the Muslim army of Umar ibn al-Khattab on the western bank of the Euphrates River.

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Prince (Prince of Persia)

The Prince is the name given to a group of fictional characters who act as the main protagonists of the Prince of Persia franchise, developed and published by Ubisoft.

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Prods Oktor Skjaervo

Prods Oktor Skjaervo (Prods Oktor Skjærvø) (born 30 December 1944, in Steinkjer) is a professor of Iranian studies at department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in Harvard University, where he succeeded Richard Frye as Agha Khan Professor of Iranistic.

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Rüdiger Schmitt

Rüdiger Schmitt (Rüdiger Schmitt) (born 1 July 1939 in Würzburg) is a German linguist and Iranologist.

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Results of the Iranian presidential election, 2009

The 2009 Iranian presidential election was characterized by huge candidate rallies in Iranian cities, and very high turnout reported to be over 80 percent.

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Reynold A. Nicholson

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, or R. A. Nicholson (18 August 1868 – 27 August 1945), was an eminent English orientalist, scholar of both Islamic literature and Islamic mysticism and widely regarded as one of the greatest Rumi (Mevlana or Mawlana) scholars and translators in the English language.

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Richard Foltz

Richard Foltz (born 1961) is a Canadian scholar of American origin.

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Richard N. Frye

Richard Nelson Frye (January 10, 1920 – March 27, 2014) was an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University.

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Roger Savory

Roger Savory is a British-born Professor Emeritus at the University of TorontoRoger Savory, "Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations"- University of Toronto" who is an Iranologist and specialist on the Safavids.

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Rouben Abrahamian

Rouben Abrahamian, born Ṛubēn Tʻadēosi Abrahamyan (Ռուբեն Թադեւոս Աբրահամյանը, b. Gnishik 1881 - d. Yerevan 1951) was an Armenian Iranologist, linguist and translator.

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Saeed Nafisi

Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (سعید نفیسی; June 8, 1895 – November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet.

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Safavid dynasty

The Safavid dynasty (دودمان صفوی Dudmān e Safavi) was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Iran, often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history.

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Sandra Mackey

Sandra Mackey (née Sherman; September 13, 1937 – April 19, 2015) was an American writer on Middle Eastern culture and politics.

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Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies

The Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies (انجمنِ ایران‌شناسیِ اسکاندیناوی) is a Scandinavian association of scholars working in the field of Iranian Studies with members not only from Scandinavian countries, but also from the Baltic States and Finland.

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Seven Achaemenid clans

seven Achaemenid Clans or seven Achaemenid houses were seven family important which had key rules during Achaemenid era.

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Shahram Jalilian

Shahram Jalilian (born 1978 in Khorramshahr, Iran) is an Iranian Iranologist and historian.

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Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies

The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies (مرکز شرمین و بیژن مصوّر رحمانی برای مطالعات ایران و خلیج فارس) is a study center department at Princeton University.

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Shaul Bakhash

Shaul Bakhash (in شائول بخاش), PhD, is an Iranian-American historian and leading expert in Iranian studies at George Mason University where he is a "Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History." Bakhash is Jewish and was born in Iran.

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Sofia Davidovna Miliband

Sofia Davidovna Miliband (born 1922, Moscow) is a Russian Orientalist and Iranist, author, Doctor of Sciences of history and bibliography.

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Stig Wikander

Stig Wikander, born 27 August 1908 in Norrtälje, died 20 December 1983, was a Swedish indologist, iranologist and historian of religions.

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Tajik language

Tajik or Tajiki (Tajik: забо́ни тоҷикӣ́, zaboni tojikī), also called Tajiki Persian (Tajik: форси́и тоҷикӣ́, forsii tojikī), is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

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Terms for Syriac Christians

Syriac Christians are an ethnoreligious grouping of various ethnic communities of indigenous pre-Arab Semitic and often Neo-Aramaic-speaking Christian people of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Israel.

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The Cambridge History of Iran

The Cambridge History of Iran is a multi-volume survey of Iranian history published by Cambridge University Press.

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Touraj Daryaee

Touraj Daryaee (تورج دریایی) (born 1967 in Tehran, Iran) is a contemporary Persian Iranologist and historian, now the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and the director of the Dr.

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University of Basrah

The University of Basrah (جامعة البصرة Jāmi'at Al Basrah) is situated in the city of Basra, Iraq.

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Visramiani

Visramiani (ვისრამიანი) is a medieval Georgian version of the old Iranian love story Vīs and Rāmīn, traditionally taken to have been rendered in prose by Sargis of T'mogvi, a 12th/13th-century statesman and writer active during the reign of Queen Tamar (r. 1184-1213).

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William Chittick

William C. Chittick (born 1943) is a philosoper, writer, translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts.

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Wipert von Blücher

Wipert von Blücher (14 July 1883 – 20 January 1963) was a German diplomat and the German ambassador to Finland from 12 May 1935 to late 1944.

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Zabihollah Safa

Zabihollah Safa (ذبیح‌اللّه صفا) (May 7, 1911 in Shahmirzad, Iran – April 29, 1999 in Lübeck, Germany) was a scholar and professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran.

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