Ehsan Yarshater, of Columbia University, is one of the world's leading Iranologists.

Ehsan Yarshater (Persian: احسان يارشاطر‎ , born April 3, 1920, Hamadan, Iran) A Bahá'í, is the Director of The Center for Iranian Studies and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. Image File history File links Ehsan Yar Shater. ... Image File history File links Ehsan Yar Shater. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Avicennas tomb in Hamedan Hamadan or Hamedan ( Persian: همدان ) is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ...

He is famous for editing the monumental Encyclopedia Iranica along with 40 other editors and 300 authors from various academic institutions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is also famous for editing the third volume of the Cambridge History of Iran, comprising the history of the Seleucid, the Parthians, and the Sassanians, as well as a volume entitled Persian Literature. Encyclopædia Iranica is a project of Columbia Universitys Center for Iranian Studies to create a comprehensive and authoritiative English language encyclopedia about the history and culture of Iran and Persia. ... This article is very long. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... The Seleucid Empire was one of several political states founded after the death of Alexander the Great, whose generals squabbled over the division of Alexanders empire. ... Reproduction of a Parthian warrior as depicted on Trajans Column The Parthian Empire was the dominating force on the Iranian plateau beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 190 BCE and 224 CE. Origins Bust of Parthian soldier, Esgh-abad Museum, Turkmenia. ... Head of king Shapur II (Sasanian dynasty A.D. 4th century). ...

Ehsan Yarshater studied Persian language and literature at the University of Tehran and Iran philology (Old and Middle Iranian) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London with W. B. Henning. His Tehran University dissertation dealt with Persian poetry under the Timurid Shahrukh (15th century). His University of London dissertation, elaborated and published later as A Grammar of Southern Tati Dialects (Mouton, 1969), describes a series of Tati dialects spoken in the southwest of Qazvin. Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Tehran University is the largest university in Iran, with 32,000 students. ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... The School of Oriental and African Studies (commonly abbreviated to SOAS) is a College of the University of London. ... The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ... Persian literature is literature written in Persian, or by Persians in other languages. ... Timurid can refer to several entities, related to Timur: Timurid Dynasty Timurid Empire Timurid Emirates This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Tati can refer to: Tati, an alternative romanization of the Japanese word tachi, a type of sword Tati, a northwestern Iranian language, spoken by the Tats Tati Concessions Land, in present Botswana Jacques Tati, a French film director and actor Tati Mattu, a person who excels at football and calls... Qazvin may refer to: Qazvin (city) Qazvin province Note: Qazvin province was created in 1996; older references to Qazvin are invariably to the city. ...

He has published a number of articles on modern western Iranian dialects, notably Tati and Taleshi, and the Jewish dialects of Persian (including Lotara'i) and on Persian mythology as well. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...

He has won several International awards for scholarship, including a UNESCO award in 1959. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ...

The Yarshater lectureship is today the most prestigious honor in the field of Iranology.^[1] Iranology is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of Iranian cultural continent. ...

Publications

1. Theorems and Remarks* (al-Isharat wa'l-tanbihat) by Avicenna, tr. into Persian in the 13th century; annotated edition. Tehran, National Monuments Society, 1953.
2. Five Treaties in Arabic and Persian (Panj Resala) by Ibn Sina, annotated edition. Tehran, National Monuments Society, 1953.
3. Persian Poetry under Shah Rokh: The Second Half of the 15th Century (Sher-e parsi dar 'ahd-e Shahrokh). Tehran, the Tehran University Press, 1955.
4. Legends of the Epic of Kings (Dastanha-ye Shahnama). Tehran: Iran-American Joint Fund Publications, 1957, 1958, 1964; 2nd ed. 1974, 1982 (awarded a UNESCO prize in 1959).
5. Old Iranian Myths and Legends (Dastanha-ye Iran-e bastan). Tehran: Iran-American Joint Fund Publications, 1957, 1958, 1964 (Royal Award for the best book of the year, 1959).
6. With W.B. Henning (eds.). A Locust's Leg: Studies in Honour of S.H. Taqizadeh. London, 1962.
7. Modern Painting (Naqqashi-e novin). 2 vols. Tehran: Amir Kabir, 1965-66; 2nd printing, 1975.
8. A Grammar of Southern Tati Dialects, Median Dialect Studies I. The Hague and Paris, Mouton and Co., 1969.
9. Iran Faces the Seventies (ed.). New York, Praeger Publishers, 1971.
10. With D. Bishop (eds.). Biruni Symposium. New York, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University, 1976.
11. Selected Stories from the Shahnama (Bargozida-ye dastanha-ye Shahnama), Vol. I. Tehran, BTNK, 1974; reprint, Washington, D.C., Iranian Cultural Foundation, 1982.
12. With David Bivar (eds.). Inscriptions of Eastern Mazandaran, Corpus Inscriptionem Iranicarum. London, Lund and Humphries, 1978.
13. With Richard Ettinghausen (eds.). Highlights of Persian Art. New York, Bibliotheca Persica, 1982.
14. Sadeq Hedayat: An Anthology (ed.). New York, Bibliotheca Persica, 1979.
15. Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. III: Seleucid, Parthian and Sassanian Periods (ed.). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
16. Persian Literature (ed.). New York, State University of New York Press, 1988.

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Notes

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See also

• Topics
  • Iranistics
  • List of Islamic scholars
  • Modern Iranian scientists and engineers
  • List of Iranian scientists
• Colleagues and scholars
  • Richard Nelson Frye
  • James R. Russell

Iranistics or Iranian studies is an area of study found in most of the important universities around the world. ... Islamic scholars are Muslim and non-Muslim scholars who work in one or more fields of Islamic studies. ... Medieval manuscript by Qotbeddin Shirazi. ... Photo taken from medieval manuscript by Qotbeddin Shirazi. ... Richard Nelson Frye (c. ... James Robert Russell (born in 1953, New York City) is a scholar and professor in Ancient Near Eastern and Armenian Studies. ...

External links

• Professor Ehsan Yarshater's Authorized Website
• Interview with Iranian.com
• On the English name of Persian language