The Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professorship of Persian Studies is a Chair at the

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, England, associated with the

Faculty of Oriental Studies The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (formerly the Faculty of Oriental Studies), is a subdivision of the University of Oxford. The faculty is engaged in a broad range of research and teaching on modern and historical Asian and Middl ...

and

Wadham College Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...

. The Chair was inaugurated in 1990.Ali Banuazizi (2019). Ali Reza Sheikholeslami 1941–2018. ''

Review of Middle East Studies Middle East Studies Association (often referred to as MESA) is a learned society, and according to its website, "a non-profit association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encoura ...

'' 53 (1): 111–112

List of Soudavar Professors of Persian Studies

The holders of the Chair have been: *

Reza Sheikholeslami Ali Reza Sheikholeslami (21 July 1941 – 9 January 2018) was Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies at Wadham College in the University of Oxford from 1990 to 2006.Ali Banuazizi (2019). Ali Reza Sheikholeslami 1941–2018. '' ...

, 1990–2006 *

Edmund Herzig Edmund Martin Herzig (born February 1958) is a British professor, historian, and author. He is currently the Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies, he is part of the faculty of Oriental studies at the University of Oxford, and also has served (198 ...

, 2006–Edmund Herzig
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford (accessed 6 June 2022)

References

* Professorships at the University of Oxford Cultural studies Wadham College, Oxford Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford {{UOxford-stub