Ehsan Yarshater (Columbia University)

Submitted 7 November 1995

Ehsan Yarshater
Director, Center for Iranian Studies, and
Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emitus of Iranian Studies
Columbia University
450 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027
USA

Phones:  (212) 280-4366
FAX:     (212) 749-9524	
Email:   ey4@columbia.edu

Ehsan Yarshater studied Persian language and literature at the 
University of Tehran and Iran philology (Old and Middle Iranian) at the 
University of London with W. B. Henning. His Tehran University 
dissertation dealt with Persian poetry under the Timurid Shahrukh (15th 
century). His London University dissertation, elaborated and published 
later as A Grammar of Southern Tati Dialects (Mouton, 1969), describes a 
series of Tati dialects spoken to the southwest of Qazvin. 

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 Iranian mythology. He was the editor of the 
third volume of the Cambridge History of Iran, comprising the history of 
the Selucid, the Parthians, and the Sasanians, as well as a volume 
entitled Persian Literature. He is the editor of Encyclopedia Iranica and 
his "Yad-dasht-ha" (Random notes) have appeared in Iran-Nameh and 
Iranshenasi. His Persian Presence in the Islamic World is in press 
*U.C.L.A.)