Iraj Afshar

• Name — Iraj Afshar • Born — 8 October 1925 • Birthplace — Tehran, Sublime State of Iran • Died — 9 March 2011 • Place of death — Tehran, Iran • Occupation — Writer, historian, Iranologist • Resting Place — Number 300 Tomb, Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery • Spouse — Shayesteh Afsharieh (1945–1996, her death) • Children — 4 • Relatives — Mahmoud Afshar (father) Nosrat Barazandeh (mother) • Citizenship — Iranian • Education — University of Tehran

Iraj Afshar was born on 8 October 1925 in Tehran, Iran to parents Nosrat Barazandeh and. He attended the Zoroastrian Shāpour Secondary School and Firouz-Bahrām High School in Tajrish, Tehran. In 1945, he married Shayesteh Afsharieh and together they had four sons. Iraj Afshar recorded the monuments of Yazd in his three-volume "Yādegār-hāye Yazd (Monuments of Yazd)". He was known as "the doyen of standard Persian language bibliographers". Afshar played a significant role in the development of the field of Iranology in Iran and throughout the world during the second half of the 20th century. He was the editor of Sokhan, a prolific Iranology journal, under the responsibility of Parviz Natel-Khanlari and also the editor of rāhnamāye ketāb (Bibliography Guide), Mehr, farhang-e Iranzamin (Culture of Iran) and Ayandeh. He was the chief bibliographer of Persian books at Harvard University. Afshar was associated with UNESCO and taught at the University of Bern and University of Tehran. He was on the advisory council for the Iranian Studies journal.