- Peter Avery
Peter Avery OBE (15 May 1923 – 6 October 2008) was an eminent British scholar of Persian and a Fellow of
King's College, Cambridge .Peter Avery was born May 15, 1923. After gaining a BA at the
School of Oriental and African Studies , and serving in the Royal Indian Navy towards the end of theSecond World War , he became Principal Language Teaching Officer at theAnglo-Iranian Oil Company . He contributed to English language work on Persian history and literature, such as "The Age of Expansion" and "Medieval Persia" and published "Modern Iran". One of Avery's best known works is a translation (with poet John Heath-Stubbs) of the Persian text of "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ", first published in 1979.He died on 6 October 2008.
Selected works
* The Cambridge History of Iran, Edited by P. Avery, G. R. G. Hambly and C. Melville, Cambridge University Press (1991) ISBN 0-521-20095-4.
* Peter Avery, "The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz", 603 p. (Archetype, Cambridge, UK, 2007). ISBN 1-901383-09-1
Note: This translation is based on "Divān-e Hāfez", Volume 1, "The Lyrics (Ghazals)", edited byParviz Natel-Khanlari (Tehran ,Iran , 1362 AH/1983-4).
* Peter Avery, "The Speech of the Birds, Mantiqu't-Tair, of Faridu'd-Din 'Attar /Farid ad-Din Attar ", 560 p. (The Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, UK, 1998). ISBN 0 946621-69-1 (cloth), 0-946621-70-5 (paper).ee also
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Iranian Studies Further reading
* [http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-16/0810091152202057.htm "Distinguished Iranologist passes away"] IRNA, London, Oct 9, 2008
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