''Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies'' is an annual

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academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...

covering

Iranian studies Iranian studies ( fa, ايران‌شناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...

. Its first

editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, orga ...

was Laurence Lockhart; other editors included

Georgina Herrmann Georgina Herrmann, (born 20 October 1937) is a British retired archaeologist and academic, specialising in Near Eastern archaeology. Having worked as a civil servant, she later studied archaeology and spent the rest of her career as an active f ...

, C. Edmund Bosworth,

Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis is the British Museum's Curator of Middle Eastern coins. She is Joint Director of the International Parthian Coin Project, The Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum (SNP), and Joint Editor of the SNP series. Curtis was born in Tehran ...

, and Cameron A. Petrie. It has published scholarship by Louis D. Levine, Inna Medvedskaya, Roger Moorey,

Michael Roaf Michael Douglas Roaf(born in May 20, 1947) is a British archaeologist specialising in ancient Iranian studies and Assyriology. Roaf studied the archaeology of Western Asia at University College London, and wrote his doctoral thesis, ''Sculptures ...

, T. Cuyler Young, and Ran Zadok among others.

British Institute of Persian Studies

The journal is published by the

British Institute of Persian Studies British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

, an entity established in 1961 in Tehran as a "cultural institute, with emphasis on history and archaeology." Among its members:

Basil Gray Basil Gray, (1904 – 1989), was an art historian, Islamicist, author, and the head of the British Museum's Oriental department. Early life Basil Gray was born in 1904 at Kensington, the son to Charles Gray and Florence Elworthy Cowell. His f ...

and Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh. The Institute also maintains a library.

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