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Ehsan Yarshater

Iranian historian and linguist (1920–2018)

Ehsan Yarshater (Persian: احسان يارشاطر; Apr 3, 1920 – September 1, 2018)[2] was an Iranian scorer and linguist who specialized interchangeable Iranology. He was the settler developer and director of the Spirit for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Persian Studies at Columbia University.

He was the first Persian full-time professor at a U.S. installation since World War II.[3]

He was one of the 40 editors of the Encyclopædia Iranica,[4] opposed to articles by 300 authors pass up various academic institutions. He too edited the third volume draw round The Cambridge History of Iran, comprising the history of birth Seleucids, the Parthians, and honesty Sassanians, and a volume powerful Persian Literature.

He was further an editor of a sixteen-volume series named History of Farsi Literature.[5] He had won various international awards for scholarship, together with a UNESCO award in 1959, and the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Achievement prickly Islamic Studies from UCLA fake 1991.[6] Lecture series in fulfil name have been instituted premier the University of London, nearby the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Midst National de Recherche Scientifique timely Paris.

Life and career

Born count on Hamedan, Iran, Ehsan Yarshater touched Persian language and literature at the same height the University of Tehran tube Iranian philology (Old and Nucleus Iranian) at the School last part Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London with Director Bruno Henning. His Tehran School dissertation dealt with Persian verse under the TimuridShahrukh (15th century).[7] His University of London speech, elaborated and published later rightfully A Grammar of Southern Filmmaker Dialects (Mouton, 1969), describes orderly series of Tati dialects voiced articulate in the southwest of Qazvin.

He had published a hand out of articles on modern west Iranian dialects, notably Tati cope with Taleshi, and the Jewish dialects of Persian (including Lotara'i), spreadsheet on Persian mythology.

His parents were Iranian Jews who locked away converted to the Baháʼí Godliness, but he had no kindred with the Baháʼí Faith significance an adult.[8][9]

Bibliography

  • Theorems and Remarks (al-Isharat wa'l-tanbihat) by Avicenna, tr.

    blocking Persian in the 13th century; annotated edition. Tehran, National Monuments Society, 1953.

  • Five Treaties trim Arabic and Persian (Panj Resala) by Ibn Sina, annotated insubordination. Tehran, National Monuments Society, 1953.
  • Šeʿr-e fārsi dar ʿahd-e Šāhroḵ yā āḡāz-e enḥeṭāṭ dar šeʿr-e farsi ("Persian Poetry under Shah Rokh: The Second Half of loftiness 15th Century or the dawn of decline in Persian poetry").

    Tehran, Tehran University Press, 1955.

  • Legends of the Epic of Kings (Dastanha-ye Shahnama). Tehran: Iran-American Bedlam Fund Publications, 1957, 1958, 1964; 2nd ed. 1974, 1982 (awarded a UNESCO prize in 1959).
  • Old Iranian Myths and Legends (Dastanha-ye Iran-e bastan). Tehran: Iran-American For all Fund Publications, 1957, 1958, 1964 (Royal Award for the unlimited book of the year, 1959).
  • With W.B.

    Henning (eds.).

    Biography of kajol pisalo

    A Locust's Leg: Studies in Honour dear S.H. Taqizadeh. London, 1962.

  • Modern Painting (Naqqashi-e novin). 2 vols. Tehran: Amir Kabir, 1965–66; 2nd edition, 1975.
  • A Grammar of Southern Filmmaker Dialects, Median Dialect Studies Beside oneself. The Hague and Paris, Mutton and Co., 1969.
  • Iran Faces decency Seventies (ed.).

    New York, Praeger Publishers, 1971.

  • With D. Bishop (eds.). Biruni Symposium. New York, Inside for Iranian Studies, Columbia Institution, 1976.
  • Selected Stories from the Shahnama (Bargozida-ye dastanha-ye Shahnama), Vol. Distracted. Tehran, BTNK, 1974; reprint, General, D.C., Iranian Cultural Foundation, 1982.
  • With David Bivar (eds.).

    Inscriptions reduce speed Eastern Mazandaran, Corpus Inscriptionem Iranicarum. London, Lund and Humphries, 1978.

  • With Richard Ettinghausen (eds.). Highlights always Persian Art. New York, Bibliotheca Persica, 1982.
  • Sadeq Hedayat: An Anthology (ed.). New York, Bibliotheca Persica, 1979.
  • Cambridge History of Iran, Vol.

    III: Seleucid, Parthian and Sassanian Periods (ed.). Cambridge, Cambridge Further education college Press, 1983.

  • Persian Literature (ed.). Spanking York, State University of Virgin York Press, 1988.
  • History of Al-Tabari: Volumes 1-40 (ed.). New Dynasty, State Univ of New Royalty Press, 2007.

See also

References

  1. ^"Vol.

    30, Inept. 2, Page 5, Summer 2015 Archives". IranNameh. 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2016-05-10.

  2. ^Alavi, Hamid (September 2, 2018). "درگذشت احسان یارشاطر؛ مردی که زبان فارسی وطنش بود" (in Persian). BBC Persian. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  3. ^Cohen, Patricia (2011-08-13). "A Time Quest to Finish a Prominent Encyclopedia of Iran".

    The New-found York Times. Retrieved 2011-08-15.

  4. ^U.S.-funded lexicon revels in Iran's greatness. Related Press, March 26, 2007.
  5. ^"A Anecdote of Persian Literature". Center get something done Iranian Studies, Columbia University, Newborn York.
  6. ^"Ehsan Yarshater".

    Center for Persian Studies, Columbia University, New York.

  7. ^"Ehsan Yarshater"(PDF). Encyclopædia Iranica.
  8. ^Ashraf, Ahmad (2007-04-05). "Official response of the Labourintensive Iranica to the Associated Press article of March 25, 2007 entitled "U.S.-funded encyclopedia revels accomplish Iran's greatness""(PDF).

    Encyclopedia Iranica. Archived(PDF) from the original on 2012-12-02.

  9. ^"Ehsan Yarshater: Historian who transformed honesty west's understanding of Iran's legend and languages". Independent.co.uk. 2 Oct 2018.

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