We support and promote appreciation and academic studies of all aspects of Persianate culture from ancient times to the present.

We Support and promote appreciation of all aspects of Persianate culture.

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WHAT WE DO

GRANTS

We award grants for a variety of academic research and activities.

Publications

We have published or helped to publish numerous works in the field of Iranian Studies. We continue to provide support for publication of monographs and collaborative academic works on the Persianate world, currently including the History of Persian Literature series.

BOOK AWARDS

We sponsor awards for monographs of outstanding merit in the field of Iranian Studies, nominated and selected through academic organizations such as the Association for Iranian Studies and Societas Iranologica Europaea.

LECTURE SERIES AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

We support Iranian Studies through funding at academic institutions for invited lectures, postdoctoral fellowships, and other professional activities. These include the Yarshater Lecture Series convened at major universities in the United States and Europe.

About the Persian Heritage Foundation

The Persian Heritage Foundation is a US-registered, non-political, non-governmental organization, formed by Professor Ehsan Yarshater in 1983, which aims to support and promote research on all aspects of the Iranian world in the pre-Islamic as well as the Islamic period—a world that is not confined to the present boundaries of Iran, but that extends to the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Indian Subcontinent and, more recently, the wider Iranian diaspora, involving a multitude of languages, religions and cultures.

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