Richard Nelson Frye

Richard Nelson Frye is a well known scholar of Central Asian studies, and emeritus Aga Khan Professor of Iranian studies at Harvard University.

Related Topics:
Aga Khan - Harvard University

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Born in 1920, he is said to have served with the Office of Strategic Services during WWII, but came back to the academia permanently a year later. Frye graduated from Harvard university in 1946, taking up teaching positions at Habibiya College in Kabul (1942-44), Harvard University (1948-90), Frankfurt University (1959-60), Hamburg University (1968-69), Pahlavi University of Shiraz (1970-76), and University of Tajikistan (1990-92).

Related Topics:
Office of Strategic Services - WWII - Harvard university - Habibiya College - Kabul - Frankfurt University - Hamburg University - Pahlavi University - Shiraz - University of Tajikistan

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His professional areas of interest are Iranian philology, and history of Iran and Central Asia before 1000AD.

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Professor Frye founded the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. He also served as Director of the Asia Institute in Shiraz (1970-1975), was on the Board of Trustees of the Pahlavi University at Shiraz (1974-78), and Chairman, Committee on Inner Asian Studies, at Harvard (1983-89), and as Editor of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute (1970-1975 and 1987-99).

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Shiraz - Pahlavi University

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In his will, Professor Frye has wished to be buried next to Zayandeh-rud in Isfahan, as with the other two American Iranologists Arthur Pope and Phyllis Ackerman.

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Isfahan - Arthur Pope - Phyllis Ackerman

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