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The American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) is a nonprofit founded in 1967, formed to promoted Iranian and Persian studies in American educational institutions. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The Foundation for Iranian Studies is a nonprofit founded in 1981 in Bethesda, Maryland, and since 1982 they host an oral history program. [ 13 ]
Iranian Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering Iranian and Persianate history, literature, and society published quarterly by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Iranian Studies (formerly known as the International Society for 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. AIIrS facilitates academic and cultural exchange between the US and Iran and is dedicated to supporting scholars and funding research in Iranian Studies .
Ehsan Yarshater (Persian: احسان يارشاطر; April 3, 1920 – September 1, 2018) [2] was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology. He was the founder and director of the Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University.
The Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) (Persian: انجمن ایران پژوهی), formerly the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS), 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.
The Foundation for Iranian Studies (FIS) is an American non-profit institution dedicated to educating the public about Persia and modern Iran. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Princess Ashraf Pahlavi , Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 's sister, funded the founding of FIS in1981, just after the Iranian Revolution .
Savory was first introduced to Iranian studies as a young man between 1943 and 1947. [1] He started his formal education in Oxford under Professors Hamilton Gibb, Joseph Schacht and Richard Walzer. In 1950 he began lecturing on Persian at the school of SOAS. He completed his Ph.D. under Ann Lambton and Vladimir Minorsky at SOAS in 1958.
Persian studies (Persian: مطالعات فارسی) is the study of the Persian language and its literature specifically. It is differentiated from Iranian studies which is a broader, more interdisciplinary subject that focuses more on the histories and cultures of all Iranian peoples .