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
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