Abbas Zaryab or 'Abbās Zaryāb (Persian: عباس زریاب; full name: Abbas (Zaryab) Khoyi عباس (زریاب) خویی; August 13, 1919 – February 3, 1995) was a historian,[1]translator, literature Professor[2] and Iranologist. He was the author of several books, including a life of Muhammad,[3] and articles in The Persian Encyclopedia (published in Iran), Western peer reviewed Journals as well as Iranica.
Among the distinguished rank he held, was the head of the library of congress in Iran and the head of the literature department at Tehran University. At the invitation of the eminent Iranologist, Professor Walter Bruno Henning, he taught Persian language and literature in University of California, Berkeley between 1962 and 1964. But he came back to Iran, due to his love for his homeland and took a position at Tehran University. He died in 1995.
His works are quoted in Western publications and by Western scholars including Franklin Lewis,[4] Charles Melville,[5] G. Michael Wickens, Juan Cole, Kamran Ekbal,[6] Lutz Richter-Bernburg,[7]Josef van Ess,[8] H. R. Roemer,[9] etc.[10]
Books and articles
Non-Persian languages
Some selected writing of his in non-Persian languages.
'A. Zaryāb, ĀḠĀJĪ BOḴĀRĪ in Encyclopædia Iranica[11]
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of Iran, Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
