Jaleh Amouzgar

Jaleh Amouzgar

Jaleh Amouzgar (born 2 December, 1939) is a world-class Iranist and a university professor.

Jaleh Amouzgar holds a Ph. D. degree from Sorbonne University in Iranistics (Iranian linguistics). She is currently chairman of the department of "Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages" at Tehran University.

Prof. Jaleh Amouzgar in collaboration with Prof. Ahmad Tafazzoli has contributed significantly to "Ancient Iranian studies" and the history of literature in ancient Iran.

She is also associated with the "Encyclopedia Iranica" project at Columbia University.

See also

*Iranistics
*Persian culture
*List of famous Persian women

External links

* [http://www.nimrooz.net/iranistics/amouzgar/ Biography of Jaleh Amouzgar]


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