Iraj Afshar (born 1925 in Tehran) is a notable Iranian literary figure, scholar of Persian literature, bibliographer, historian, cultural theorist and world-class Iranologist. He is a consulting editor of Encyclopedia Iranica at Columbia University and full professor emeritus of Tehran University. Iraj Afshar recorded the monuments of Yazd in his three volumes "Yadegar haye Yazd". He is known as "the doyen of Iranian Persian language bibliographers". Wikipedia
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