Iraj Bashiri

Iraj Bashiri

Iraj Bashiri ( Persian ایرج بشیری Iradsch Baschiri , born July 31, 1940 in Behbahān , Chuzestan , Iran ) is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota , USA and one of the leading scholars in the field of Central Asian Studies and Iranian Studies . Fluent in English , Persian , Persian-Tajik and several Turkic languages , Bashiri was able to read and translate works that would otherwise have remained inaccessible to the mostly Russian-speaking research community of Central Asian Studies. Bashiri's career initially focused on ancient Persia and then shifted to Tajik identity and relationships between Tajiks and the Turkic-speaking Uzbeks of Central Asia.

Publications (selection)

• Persian For Beginners 1972, 1975, 1981, 1991.
• Persidskij yazyk dla nachinaushchikh Osnovnoj kurs ( Persian for beginners by Bazukin V.), 2000.
• The verb 'sein' as the origin of syntax (Persian), 1973 .
• Sadeq Hedayat's short stories, 1984.
• The Black Tulip (novella in English and Persian), 1984.
• The Pearl Cannon (Ed.), 1986.
• The Shahname of Firdowsi , 1994.
• From Zoroaster to Borbad, 2003.
• Iran and Islam to AD 1400 , 1997
• AAM Shabistari, A. Rajabzadah: Kamal Khujandi : Epoch and Its Importance in the History of Central Asian Civilization. (Transl. And ed.) 1996.
• The History of a National Catastrophe, by Rahim Masov (across), (transl. And ed.) 1996.
• Samanid Renaissance and Establishment of Tajik Identity, 1998.
• Tajikistan in the 20th Century, (ed). RFE / RL, 1999-2002.
• Beginnings to AD 2000: A Comprehensive Chronology of Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran, 2001. (PDF file; 2.89 MB)
• Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century , Dushanbe 2002. (PDF file; 858 kB)
• The Nowruz Scrolls, published in 4 languages ​​(novella in German, English, Persian, Tajiki, Russian), 2004.
• The Impact of Egypt on Ancient Iran, (PDF; 1.7 MB) 2007.
• The Ishraqi Philosophy of Jalal al-Din Rumi, (PDF; 539 kB) 2008.
• Ancient Iran: Cosmology, Mythology, History by Iraj Bashiri, Cognella Publishers, 2012.
• Audible Audio Edition: Ancient Iran: Cosmology, Mythology, History by Iraj Bashiri, Cognella Publishers, 2013.
• The Blind Owl, (PDF; 2.1 MB), 3rd. revised translation, 2013.

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• Iraj Bashiri biography
• Bashiri's publications in the areas of "Central Asia" and "Iran"

• Who's Who in the World
• Outstanding People of the 20th Century
• International Dictionary of Biography
• Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

Web links

Commons : Iraj Bashiri  - collection of images, videos and audio files