Iranian Studies - Iranian Studies in Europe

Iranian Studies in Europe

European scholarly interest in Iranian language and civilization dates back to the late eighteenth century, with the emergence of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the translation of the Avesta by French scholar Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron. British interest in Persian was spurred by the fact that it was the administrative language of much of India; German scholars were attracted by the purported cultural links with Iran as a fellow "Aryan" civilization.

The major European scholarly organization devoted to Iranian Studies is the Societas Iranologica Europea. The London-based Iran Heritage Foundation supports Iranian studies at several universities and sponsors a wide range of public cultural events.

• Societas Iranologica Europea
• Oriental Institute, Oxford University
• Arabic and Persian Studies, University of Cambridge
• Centre for Iranian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews
• Centre for Iranian Cultural Studies, Durham University
• British Institute for Persian Studies
• Institut d'études iraniennes, Sorbonne nouvelle
• Mondes iranien et indien, Centre national de recherche scientifique
• Institut für Iranistik, Freie Universität Berlin
• Seminar für Iranistik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies
• Avestan Digital Archive, University of Salamanca
• Zakład Iranistyki (Department of Iranian Studies), Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
• Zakład Iranistyki UW (Department of Iranian Studies) Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
• Iran Heritage Foundation