Columbia Lectures in Iranian Studies

This lecture series was founded in 1980. The mostly annual lectures consist of three to five lectures given by an established scholar in the field of Iranian studies, later elaborated and published in book form. So far, eleven lecture series have been given and nine volumes have been published

Columbia Lectures in Iranian Studies Books

Bailey, Sir HaroldThe Culture of the Sakas in Ancient Iranian Khotan, Delmar, NY: Caravan Books and Biblotheca Persica, 1982.

Lambton, Ann K.SContinuity and Change in Medieval Persia: Aspects of Administrative, Economic, and Social History, 11th-14th Century, Albany: SUNY Press and Bibliotheca Persica, 1986. British edition, London: I. B. Tauris & Co., 1988

Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.) Persian Literature, Albany: SUNY Press and Bibliotheca Persica, 1988.

Madelung, WilferdReligious Trends in Early Islamic Iran, Albany, NY: Persian Heritage Foundation, 1988.

Schimmel, AnnemarieA Two-Colored Brocade. The Imagery of Persian Poetry (no. 5), Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Dandamayev, Muhammd. AIranians in Achaemenid Babylonia, Costa Mesa and New York: Mazda Publishers and Bibliotheca Persica, 1992.

Boyce, MaryZoroastrianism. Its Antiquity and Constant Vigour, Costa Mesa and New York: Mazda Publishers and Bibliotheca Persica, 1992.

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.

Perikhanian, AnahitThe Book of One Thousand Judgments. A Sasanian Law Book, tr. N. Garsoïan, Costa Mesa and New York: Mazda Publishers and Bibliotheca Persica, 1997.