Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies

COLUMBIA (YARSHATER) LECTURES IN IRANIAN STUDIES

The Yarshater Lecture Series on Iranian Studies were initiated at the Columbia University Center for Iranian Studies in 1980.  The lecture series, usually held annually,  typically consisted of three to five lectures by a distinguished scholar in the field of Iranian studies. Revised and enhanced versions of most of the lecture series were subsequently published by or with the support of the Persian Heritage Foundation. 

Columbia Lectures in Iranian Studies: Publications

• Bailey, Sir Harold. The Culture of the Sakas in Ancient Iranian Khotan, Delmar, NY: Caravan Books and Biblotheca Persica, 1982. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies 1)
• Lambton, Ann K.S. Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia: Aspects of Administrative, Economic, and Social History, 11^th-14^th Century, Albany: SUNY Press and Bibliotheca Persica, 1986. British edition, London: I. B. Tauris & Co., 1988
. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies 2)
• Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Persian Literature, Albany: SUNY Press and Bibliotheca Persica, 1988. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies 3)
• Madelung, Wilferd. Religious Trends in Early Islamic Iran, Albany, NY: Persian Heritage Foundation, 1988. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies 4)
• Schimmel, Annemarie. A Two-Colored Brocade. The Imagery of Persian Poetry (no. 5), Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1992. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies 5)
• Dandamayev, Muhammad A. Iranians in Achaemenid Babylonia, Costa Mesa and New York: Mazda Publishers and Bibliotheca Persica, 1992. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies 6)
• Boyce, Mary. Zoroastrianism. Its Antiquity and Constant Vigour, Costa Mesa and New York: Mazda Publishers and Bibliotheca Persica, 1992. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies 7)
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• Bosworth, C. E. The History of the Saffarids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nimruz (247/861 to 949/1542-3), Costa Mesa and New York: Mazda Publishers and Bibliotheca Persica, 1994. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies 8)
• Perikhanian, Anahit. The Book of One Thousand Judgments: A Sasanian Law Book, Costa Mesa and New York: Mazda Publishers and Bibliotheca Persica, 1997. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies 9 and Persian Heritage Series 39)