Ehsan yarshater biography books

Professor Ehsan Yarshater, a distinguished scholar of Persian language and literature, and the founder of Encyclopaedia Iranica was born in Hamedan, Iran in 1920. He received a Ph.D. in Persian language and literature from the University of Tehran in 1947.

He then moved to England to pursue his studies with W. B. Henning at London University, where he received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Old and Middle Iranian in 1960. He was invited by Columbia University in 1958 as a Visiting Associate Professor and was later appointed to the Kevorkian Chair in 1961.

Ehsan yarshater biography books

He founded the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University in 1968 and served as its Director until his retirement in 2016. The center was recently named Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies.

Professor Yarshater founded the Encyclopædia Iranica in 1973 and remained its Editor-in-Chief until his retirement.

Encyclopædia Iranica is arguably the most significant, extensive and comprehensive scholarly