In my experience, one of the significant challenges facing students of Iranian studies, especially those new to exploring the rich landscape of Iranian academia, is the limited availability of online bibliographical resources.
I recall, as a student, how often I had to spend hours and days discovering new names, books, and papers. As enjoyable as those cherished moments were, it took me, and I am sure many others, an enormous amount of time to blindly fumble our way through past and current scholarship on Iranian history, languages, religions, literature, etc.
Even now, as an instructor of Classical and Middle Persian languages and literature, I often see my students unaware of the scholarship on the subjects of their studies and at times struggling to find relevant literature. This applies to both Western scholarship and, to a much higher degree, native Iranian scholarship.
In order to address this issue to a very limited degree (acknowledging the efforts of others in this regard), and to provide helpful materials for students in this field, I have decided to create a list of festschrifts and memorial volumes dedicated to scholars in this field, thus making it a little bit easier for at least some students to navigate this academic field.
The current list includes festschrifts and memorial volumes published in non-Persian languages, primarily including papers in English, German, and French.
In the near future, I hope to compile another list containing memorial volumes (yādnāme) in Persian, thus making the names and publications of Iranian scholars accessible to students of Iranian studies.
I would be immensely grateful to all the readers who suggest titles, especially if they can attach the PDFs of the respective books alongside the titles. Please send the suggestions to my email: nikoghosyanruben@gmail.com
Dādestān ī Dēnīg. Festschrift for Mahmoud Jaafari-Dehaghi
No Tapping around Philology. A Festschrift in Honor of Wheeler McIntosh Thackston Jr.’s 70th Birthday
Editor(s): Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin
Series: Acta Iranica 4
Year of Publication: 1975
Dedicated to: Henrik Samuel Nyberg (1889-1974)
Languages: English, French, German, Italian
Publisher: Bibliothèque Pahlavi: Téhéran-Liège
Distributor: Brill (Leiden)
Number of Contributions: 37
Number of Pages: 511
List of Contributions:
Editor(s): Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin
Series: Acta Iranica 5
Year of Publication: 1975
Dedicated to: Henrik Samuel Nyberg
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Bibliothèque Pahlavi (Téhéran-Liège)
Distributor: Brill (Leiden)
Number of Contributions: 27
Number of Pages: 472
List of Contributions:
Editor(s): Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin
Series: Acta Iranica 6
Year of Publication: 1975
Dedicated to: Henrik Samuel Nyberg
Languages: English, French, German, Russian
Publisher: Bibliothèque Pahlavi (Téhéran-Liège)
Distributor: Brill (Leiden)
Number of Contributions: 7
Number of Pages: 394
List of Contributions:
ADDENDA et CORRIGENDA
Editors: Ronald E. Emmerick; Dieter Weber
Series: –
Year of Publication: 1991
Dedicated to: David Neil MacKenzie (1926-2001)
Languages: English, German, French
Publisher: Peter Lang
Number of Contributions: 26
Number of Pages: 244
List of Contributions:
Editors: Carol Altman Bromberg; Nicholas Sims-Williams, and Ursula Sims-Williams
Series: Bulletin of the Asia Institute. Volume 19
Year of Publication: 2005
Dedicated to: Prods Oktor Skjærvø (b. 1944)
Languages: English, French
Publisher: Bulletin of the Asia Institute
Number of Contributions: 30
Number of Pages: 238
List of Contributions:
Editors: Mary Boyce and Ilya Gershevitch
Year of Publication: 1970
Dedicated to: Walter Bruno Henning (1908-1967)
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Lund Humphries (London)
Number of Contributions: 47
Number of Pages: 468
List of Contributions:
Editors: Maria Macuch, Mauro Maggi, Werner Sundermann
Series: Iranica 13
Year of Publication: 2007
Dedicated to: Ronald E. Emmerick (1937 -2001)
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag. Wiesbaden
Number of Contributions: 33
Number of Pages: 489
List of Contributions:
Editors: W. B. Henning; E. Yarshater
Series: –
Year of Publication: 1962
Dedicated to: Sayyed Hasan Taqizadeh (1878 – 1970)
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. LTD
Number of Contributions: 30
Number of Pages: 250
List of Contributions:
Editors: Almut Hintze, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Claudius Naumann
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2019
Dedicated to: Maria Macuch (1950)
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag. Wiesbaden
Number of Contributions:
Number of Pages: 394
List of Contributions:
Editors: D. Amin, M. Kasheff, A. Sh. Shahbazi
Series: Acta Iranica 30
Year of Publication: 1990
Dedicated to: Ehsan Yarshater (1920 – 2018)
Languages: English, German, French
Publisher: Brill. Leiden
Number of Contributions: 32
Number of Pages: 291
List of Contributions:
Editor: Kambiz Eslami
Series: –
Year of Publication: 1998
Dedicated to: Iraj Afshar (1925 – 2011)
Languages: English, French
Publisher: Zagros Press. Princeton, New Jersey
Number of Contributions: 22
Number of Pages: 357
List of Contributions:
Editor: Mohammad Taqi Māyelī (?)
Series: –
Year of Publication: 1963
Dedicated to: Henri Massé (1886 – 1969)
Languages: English, French
Publisher: Téhéran. Imprimerie de l’Université
Number of Contributions: 38 (in English & French); 7 (Persian)
Number of Pages: 416 (English & French articles); 101 (Persian)
List of English & French Contributions:
Persian-Language Contributions:
١. افشار، ایرج: اندر فوائد لغوی کامل التعبیر
Felix Tauer: Ḥāfiẓi Abrū sur l’historiographie٢.
٣. جمالزاده، محمد علی: مدینه فاضله در روایت اسلامی
٤. حکمت، علی اصغر: ادبیات فارسی
٥. کمیسارف، د.: صادق هدایت نویسندۀ برجستۀ معاصر ایران
۶. میرزایف، عبد الغنی: روابط ادبی ایران و ماوراء النهر در سده های ١۶ و ١٧
٧. نفیسی، سعید: خاندان صاعدیان
Editors: Uwe Bläsing, Victoria Arakelova and Matthias Weinreich (with the assistance of Khachik Gevorgian)
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2015
Dedicated to: Garnik Asatrian (1953)
Languages: English
Publisher: Brill
Number of Contributions: 37
Number of Pages: 692
List of Contributions:
Editor: Siamak Adhami
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2003
Dedicated to: Hanns-Peter Schmidt (1930 – 2017)
Languages: English, German
Publisher: Mazda Publishers. Costa Mesa, California
Number of Contributions (Vol. II): 13
Number of Pages: 392
List of Contributions:
* As the Vol. I contains contributions only to Indian and Indo-European studies, I have included here only the contents of Vol. II.
Editors: Touraj Daryaee, Mahmoud Omidsalar
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2004
Dedicated to: Ahmad Tafaẓẓolī (1937 – 1997)
Languages: English
Publisher: Mazda Publishers
Number of Contributions: 15
Number of Pages: 248
List of Contributions:
Editors: V. Naddaf, F. Goshtasb, M. Shokri-Foumeshi
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2013
Dedicated to: Zohreh Zarshenas (1951)
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Institute for Humanities & Cultural Studies, Tehran.
Number of Contributions: 9
Number of Pages: 140
List of Contributions:
Editors: Carlo G. Cereti, Mauro Maggi and Elio Provasi
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2003
Dedicated to: Gherardo Gnoli (1937 – 2012)
Languages: English, French, German, Italian
Publisher: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. Wiesbaden
Number of Contributions: 41
Number of Pages: 458
List of Contributions:
Editors: Werner Sundermann, Almut Hintze, François de Blois
Series: Iranica 17
Year of Publication: 2009
Dedicated to: Nicholas Sims-Williams (1949)
Languages: English, German, French
Publisher: Harrassowitz (Wiesbaden, Germany)
Number of Contributions: 40
Number of Pages: 596
List of Contributions:
Editors: Alberto Cantera, Maria Macuch, Nicholas Sims-Williams
Series: Iranica 30
Year of Publication: 2022
Dedicated to: Almut Hintze (1957)
Languages: English, German, French
Publisher: Harrassowitz (Wiesbaden, Germany)
Number of Contributions: 34
Number of Pages: 574
List of Contributions:
Editors: Jamsheed K. Choksy, Jennifer Dubeansky
Series: Toronto Studies in Religion 32
Year of Publication: 2013
Dedicated to: Firoze Kotwal (1935)
Languages: English, French
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing (New York)
Number of Contributions: 22
Number of Pages: 339
List of Contributions:
Editors: F.D. Lewis, S. Sharma
Series: Iranian Studies Series
Year of Publication: 2010
Dedicated to: Heshmat Moayyad (1927 – 2018)
Languages: English, Persian
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Number of Contributions: 24
Number of Pages: 380
List of Contributions:
Editor: Marek Jan Olbrycht
Series: Anabasis 1 (2010). Studia Classica et Orientalia
Year of Publication: 2010
Dedicated to: Józef Wolski (1910 – 2008)
Languages: English, German
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
Number of Contributions: 17
Number of Pages: 302
List of Contributions:
Editors: Matteo Compareti, Paola Raffetta, Gianroberto Scarcia
Series: Transoxiana Webfestschrift Series I (Webfestschrift Marshak 2003)
Year of Publication: 2003 (updated 2006)
Dedicated to: Boris Ilich Marshak (1933 – 2006)
Languages: English, French
Publisher: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina
Number of Contributions: 46
Number of Pages: 718
List of Contributions:
Editor: Dieter Weber
Series: Iranica 8
Year of Publication: 2006
Dedicated to: David Neil MacKenzie (1926 – 2001)
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag (Wiesebaden)
Number of Contributions: 25
Number of Pages: 307
List of Contributions:
Editors: Team „Turfanforschung“
Series: Iranica 25
Year of Publication: 2017
Dedicated to: Werner Sundermann (1935 – 2012)
Languages: English, French, German, Russian
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Number of Contributions: 56
Number of Pages: 754
List of Contributions:
Editors: Éric Pirart, Xavier Tremblay
Series: Beiträge zur Iranistik 30
Year of Publication: 2008
Dedicated to: Jean Kellens (1944)
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Reichert Verlag
Number of Contributions: 28
Number of Pages: 390
List of Contributions:
Editors: Rüdiger Schmitt, Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Series: Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenshcaft 13
Year of Publication: 1986
Dedicated to: Helmut Humbach (1921 – 2017)
Languages: German, French, English, Italian
Publisher: Kitzinger, München
Number of Contributions: 32
Number of Pages: 524
List of Contributions:
Editor: Alois van Tongerloo
Series: Silk Road Studies VIII
Year of Publication: 2003
Dedicated to: Wojciech Skalmowski (1933 – 2008)
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Brepolis
Number of Contributions: 27
Number of Pages: 282
List of Contributions:
Editors: С. Р. Тохтасьева, П. Б. Лурье
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2013
Dedicated to: Vladimir Aronovich Livshitz (1923 – 2017)
Languages: Russian, English
Publisher: Нестор-История (Санкт-Петербург). Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Scences
Number of Contributions: 42
Number of Pages: 672
List of Contributions:
Editors: Shervin Farridnejad, Rika Gyselen, Anke Joisten-Pruschke
Series: Göttinger Orientforschungen III. Reihe: Iranica. Neue Folge 13
Year of Publication: 2015
Dedicated to: Klaus Schippmann (1924 – 2010)
Languages: German, English
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag (Wiesbaden)
Number of Contributions: 13
Number of Pages: 249
List of Contributions:
Editors: Hilmar Klinkott, Andreas Luther, Josef Wiesehöfer
Series: Oriens et Occidens 36
Year of Publication: 2021
Dedicated to: Rüdiger Schmitt (1939)
Languages: English, German, Italian
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Number of Contributions: 12
Number of Pages: 263
List of Contributions:
Editors: Sabir Badalkhan, Gian Pietro Basello, Matteo De Chiara
Series: Series Minor LXXXVII.1
Year of Publication: 2019
Dedicated to: Adriano V. Rossi (1947)
Languages: English, Italian, German, French
Publisher: Unior Press
Number of Contributions: 56
Number of Pages: 1046
List of Contributions:
PART ONE
PART TWO
Editors: Pastor Dorian, Murad Suleymanov
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2022
Dedicated to: Agnes Korn (1967)
Languages: French, English, German
Publisher: Reichert Verlag
Number of Contributions: 9
Number of Pages: 180
List of Contributions:
Editors: Mauro Maggi, Mohsen Ashtiany
Series: Beitrage zur Iranistik 54
Year of Publication: 2021
Dedicated to: Paola Orsatti (1956)
Languages: English
Publisher: Reichert Verlag
Number of Contributions: 17
Number of Pages: 336
List of Contributions:
Editors: Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Christiane Reck, Dieter Weber
Series: Beitrage zur Iranistik 31
Year of Publication: 2009
Dedicated to: Werner Sundermann (1935 – 2012)
Languages: English, German, French
Publisher: Reichert Verlag
Number of Contributions: 20
Number of Pages: 408
List of Contributions:
Editor: J. Duchesne-Guillemin, W. Sundermann, F. Vahman
Series: Acta Iranica 28. Hommages et Opera Minora, 12
Year of Publication: 1988
Dedicated to: Jes P. Asmussen (1928 – 2002)
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Brill
Number of Contributions: 51
Number of Pages: 547
List of Contributions:
Editor: Shervin Farridnejad
Series: Ancient Iran Series 10
Year of Publication: 2021
Dedicated to: Philip G. Kreyenbroek (1948)
Languages: English
Publisher: Brill (Leiden)
Number of Contributions: 13
Number of Pages: 323
List of Contributions:
Editors: Touraj Daryaee, Judith A. Lerner, Virginie C. Rey
Series: Ancient Iran Series 11
Year of Publication: 2021
Dedicated to: Michael L. Bates (1941)
Languages: English
Publisher: Brill (Leiden)
Number of Contributions: 20
Number of Pages: 340
List of Contributions:
Editors: Mostafa Faghfouri
Series: Ancient Iran Series 12
Year of Publication: 2021
Dedicated to: David Sellwood (1925 – 2012)
Languages: English
Publisher: Brill (Leiden)
Number of Contributions: 12
Number of Pages: 238
List of Contributions:
Editor: Szántó Iván
Series: Acta et Studia XIII.
Year of Publication: 2015
Dedicated to: Éva M. Jeremiás (1944)
Languages: English, German, French
Publisher: The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies
Number of Contributions: 19
Number of Pages: 334
List of Contributions (the list is taken from Bibliographia Iranica):
Editors: Shai Secunda, Steven Fine
Series: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 35
Year of Publication: 2021
Dedicated to: Yaakov Elman (1943 – 2018)
Languages: English
Publisher: Brill
Number of Contributions: 23
Number of Pages: 485
List of Contributions:
Editors: M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Behrad Aghaei
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2012
Dedicated to: Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr (1938)
Languages: English
Publisher: Mazda Publishers
Number of Contributions: 12
Number of Pages: 238
List of Contributions:
Editors: Rudi Matthee, Beth Baron
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2000
Dedicated to: Nikki R. Keddie (1930)
Languages: English
Publisher: Mazda Publishers
Number of Contributions: 13
Number of Pages: 291
List of Contributions:
Editor: Wali Ahmadi
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2012
Dedicated to: Amin Banani (1926 – 2013)
Languages: English, French
Publisher: Mazda Publishers
Number of Contributions: 14
Number of Pages: 300
List of Contributions:
Editors: Carole Hillenbrand
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2000
Dedicated to: Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928 – 2015)
Languages: English, German
Publisher: Brill
Number of Contributions: 19
Number of Pages: 468
List of Contributions:
Editor: Georges Redard
Series: –
Year of Publication: 1964
Dedicated to: Georg Morgenstierne (1892 – 1978)
Languages: English, French, German, Russian
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz (Wiesbaden)
Number of Contributions: 25
Number of Pages: 195
List of Contributions:
Editor: Amin Shayeste Doust
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2022
Dedicated to: Mahmoud Jaafari-Dehaghi (1950)
Languages: English
Publisher: Farhang Moaser
Number of Contributions: 29
Number of Pages:
List of Contributions (the list is taken from Bibliographia Iranica):
Editors: Alireza Korangy, Daniel J. Sheffield
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2014
Dedicated to: Wheeler M. Thackston (1944)
Languages: English
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Number of Contributions: 23
Number of Pages: 449
List of Contributions:
Editors: Mark B. Garrison, Wouter F.M. Henkelman
Series: Melammu Workshops and Monographs 6
Year of Publication: 2023
Dedicated to: Bruno Jacobs
Languages: English
Publisher: Zaphon
Number of Contributions: 17
Number of Pages: 560
List of Contributions:
Editor: Yousef Moradi
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2019
Dedicated to: Mehdi Rahbar (1938)
Languages: English
Publisher: The Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Number of Contributions: 21
Number of Pages: 206
List of Contributions:
Editor: Harold Walter Bailey
Series: Acta Iranica 24
Year of Publication: 1985
Dedicated to: Mary Boyce (1920 – 2006)
Languages: English, German, French, Italian
Publisher: Brill
Number of Contributions: 19
Number of Pages: 379
List of Contributions:
Editors: H.W. Bailey
Series: Acta Iranica 25
Year of Publication: 1985
Dedicated to: Mary Boyce
Languages: English, German, French, Italian
Publisher: Brill
Number of Contributions: 26
Number of Pages: 410
List of Contributions:
Editors: Gerardo Barbera; Matteo De Chiara; Alessandro Del Tomba; Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā; Federico Dragoni; Paola Orsatti
Series: Beiträge zur Iranistik 52
Year of Publication: 2024
Dedicated to: Mauro Maggi
Languages: English
Publisher: Reichert Verlag
Number of Contributions: 29
Number of Pages: 480
List of Contributions:
Editors: Ryka Gyselen
Series: Cahiers de Studia Iranica 66
Year of Publication: 2024
Dedicated to: Philippe Gignoux
Languages:
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Number of Contributions:
Number of Pages: 318
List of Contributions: No information on the website.
Editors: Luca Colliva, Anna Filigenzi, Luca Maria Olivieri
Series: SERIE ORIENTALE ROMA 34
Year of Publication: 2023
Dedicated to: Pierfrancesco Callieri
Languages: English, Italian, German, French
Publisher: ISMEO
Number of Contributions: 36
Number of Pages: 720
List of Contributions:
Iran
Editors: Henry P. Colburn, Betty Hensellek, Judith A. Lerner
Series: –
Year of Publication: 2024
Dedicated to: Prudence Oliver Harper
Languages: English
Publisher: Brepolis
Number of Contributions: 22
Number of Pages: 444
List of Contributions:
Materials and Methods
Editor: C. E. Bosworth
Series: –
Year of Publication: 1971
Dedicated to: Vladimir Minorsky
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Number of Contributions: 36
Number of Pages: 574
List of Contributions:
Editors: Maria Macuch and Arash Zeini
Series: Iranica 33
Year of Publication: 2024
Dedicated to: Dieter Weber
Languages: English, French, German
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Number of Contributions: 28
Number of Pages: 480
List of Contributions: