GERNOT WINDFUHR

Professor of Iranian Studies
Department of Near Eastern Studies
3127 Thayer Academic Building  ·  Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
(734) 647-0096  ·  fax (734) 936-2679
windfuhr@umich.edu

 

EDUCATION
1959-1960, 1962-1965  Ph.D., Universität Hamburg, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Linguistics.
1960-1961  University of Tehran, Iranian Studies.
1961-1962  Universität Köln, Linguistics.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1964-1965  Verwalter der Dienstgeschäfte eines Wissenschaftlichen Assistenten, Seminar für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft. University of Kiel, Germany.
1965-1966  Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, same Department.
1966-1967  Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
1967-1969  Assistant Professor, same Department.
1969-1973  Associate Professor, same Department.
1973-          Professor, same Department.
1977-1987  Chair, same Department.
1991 Fall  Acting Chair, same Department.
1997 July  Visiting Professor, C. G. Jung Institut, Zürich, Switzerland.

MAJOR FIELDS

Persian language, linguistics, literature, culture; Iranian linguistics and dialectology; Near Eastern linguistics; Pre-Islamic Iranian languages and religions, Zoroastrianism.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Research Grants, 1967, 1973-1974, 1975-1976.

Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan, Research and Travel Grants, 1968-1974.

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship, 1974-1975.

Social Science Research Council, Research Grants, 1974-1975, 1976-1977.

U.S. Department of Education, Research Grants, 1977-1978, 1978-1981.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Grant, 1985-1988.

University of Michigan, Vice President for Research/College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Research Grant 1987-1988.

University of Michigan Vice President for Research/Rackham, research grant for graduate student support, Spring-Summer 2001.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member, Board of Consultants, Iranian Studies Group, Pahlavi National Library Iran, 1973.
     
Coordinator Linguistics, State of the Art Committee, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1973-1976.
     
Member, Research and Training Committee, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1976-1981.
     
Member, Nomination Committee, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1976-1977.
     
Program Evaluator, Iranian Studies Program Development, Freie Universität Berlin, l977.
     
Consultant, Persian Program, U.S. Office/Department of Education, 1978-1979.
     
Member of Board of Directors, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1979-1980.
     
Persian Examiner, Kent State University, Critical Languages Program, 1972-1983.
     
Persian Examiner, University of Maryland, Critical Languages Program, 1979-1983.
     
Member, Board of Directors, American Oriental Society, 1984-1987.
    
Consultant, Persian Program, American Council on Education, National Cryptological School, 1989.
     
Chair, External Review Committee, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 1989.
     
President, American Association of Teachers of Persian, 1989-1996.
     
Council Member , Society for Iranian Studies, 1990-1992.
     
Project Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995 to present.
     
Reader for various scholarly journals and publishing houses.
     
Honorary Advisor, Cultural Research Bureau, Tehran; projects: Multi-media series “Standard Spoken Persian”; Bibliography of Teaching Persian to Non-Natives; A Study of Loan-Words in Persian. 2000-present.
     
Consultant, Interactive Internet Project, Teaching Persian to foreigners, Amuzesh-e Zaban-e Farsi be Kharejian, Cultural Research Bureau, Tehran, 2000-present.
     
Member, Program Committee, Fourth Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies, Bethesda, Maryland, May 2002.
     
Consultant, Uppsala University, Sweden, Iranian Studies Chair, 2003-present.

EDITING

Consulting Editor, Linguistics, Encyclopedia Iranica.
     
Editorial Board, International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, California State U, Fullerton and Tehran University.
     
Board of Consultants, Iranistik. Deutschsprachige Zeitschrift für iranistische Studien.

PUBLICATIONS

1965  Doctoral Dissertation: "Verbalmorpheme im Sangesari - Ein Beitrag zur neuriranischen Dialektkunde."
     
1966  "1.Tagung der Societas Linguistica Europaea," Wirkendes Wort 16, Heft 5: 349-351.
     
1967  "Strukturelle Verschiebung: Konjunktiv Präsens und Imperativ im heutigen Deutsch," Linguistics, 36: 84-99.
     
1968  "Die Struktur eines Robâ'i," Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 118: 75-78.
     
1969  "I.-E. /s/ und einfache Regeln," Vorträge. Deutscher Orientalistentag in Würzburg, July 1968, edited by Hans Voight. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Supplementa 18, Vol. 3, pp. 984-990.
     
1970  "European Gypsy in Iran: A First Report," Anthropological Linguistics 12: 271-292.
     
1970  "Wortmuster bei Xosravâni," Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft ll9: 229-240.
     
1970  "The Cuneiform Signs of Ugarit," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 29: 48-51.
     
1970  "Notes on the Old Persian Script," Indo-Iranian Journal, 13: 121-125.

1971  "Diacritic and Distinctive Features in Avestan," Journal of the American Oriental Society 91: 104-125.
     
1971  "Particle ke in Modern Persian," in: Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Orientalists, Ann Arbor, 1967, edited by D. Sinor. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, p. 244.
     
1972  A Dictionary of Sangesari, with a Grammatical Outline, with Cheragh Ali Azami. Tehrân: Šerkat- e Sahâmi-ye Ketâbhâ-ye Jibi, Franklin Book Programs, xi + 221 + 570 + 37 + V pp. (computer assisted).
     
1972  "Yek xatt-e marz-e loqavi-ye mohemm dar lahješenâsi-ye irâni" [An important isogloss in Iranian dialectology], in Proceedings of the First Congress of Iranian Studies, Tehran University, September 1970, Vol. l, edited by Muzaffar Bakhtiyâr. Tehrân: Entešârât-e Dânešgâh-e Tehrân, pp. 347-357.
     
1972  "Some Avestan Rules and their Signs," Journal of the American Oriental Society 92: 52-59.
     
1973  "Literature in Translation: Iranian into English," with John Workman, Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association 7.1: 9-41.
     
1974  "A Linguist's Criticism of Persian Literature," in: Neue Methodologie in der Iranistik, edited by Richard N. Frye. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 331-352.
     
1975  "Isoglosses: A Sketch on Persians and Parthians, Kurds and Medes," in Hommages et Opera Minora, Monumentum H. S. Nyberg, Vol. 2., Acta Iranica 5. Tehran-Liège: Bibliothèque Pahlavi, 457-472.
     
1976  "Vohu Manah, a Key to the Zoroastrian World Formula," in Michigan Studies in Honor of George G. Cameron, edited by Louis L. Orlin. Ann Arbor: Department of Near Eastern Studies, pp. 269-310.
     
1976  "Iranian Linguistics Component. Pre-Islamic Iran Components," The National Center for Research in Iranic Studies, The Pahlavi National Library, Planning Report, Board of International Consultants, submitted together with reports by T. Cuyler Young, Jr., Jerome W. Clinton, William Hanaway and James Pearson,. edited by Naser Sharifi. Tehran: The Pahlavi Library.
     
1977  "Sonqori-Türkisch, Mini-Grammar [Morphology]," p. 56 et passim in Gerhard Doerfer, "Das Sonqor-Türkische (Ein vorläufiger Bericht)," in Pentti Aalto Sexagenario Dedicata Collegae Discipuli Amici. Studia Orientalia 47, Helsinki: Societas Orientalis Fennica, pp. 43-45.
     
1977  "Foruq's 'Born Again': An Analysis and Interpretation," Edebiyat 2.2: 135-161.
     
1978  "Persian Grammar, An Introductory Outline," Ann Arbor, Michigan, 188 pp.
     
1978  "Linguistics," in The Study of the Middle East: Research and Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Leonard Binder. New York: John Wiley and Sons, pp. 347-397.
     
1978  "Das Dreierschema der altpersischen Inschriften. Kritische Anmerkungen zu Hauris Studie," and "Struktur und Dialektik einer altpersischen Inschrift," Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 128.1: 100-115. (review article of Christopher Hauri, 1973, Das pentathematische Schema der altpersischen Inschriften).
     
1979  "Persian Grammar, History and State of Research, Janua Linguarum," Trends in Linguistics, State of the Art Series, l2. The Hague: Mouton, 303 pp.
     
1979  "Modern Persian, Elementary Level," with HassanTehranisa. Ann Arbor, Michigan, xx + 377 pp. (revised and emended edition, Windfuhr 1981).
     
1979  "Modern Persian, Intermediate Level, Volume I," Transitional Lessons, with others. Ann Arbor, Michigan, xxx + 207 pp.
     
1979  "Modern Persian, Intermediate Level, Volume II," with others. Ann Arbor, Michigan, xiv + 288.
     
1981  "Modern Persian, Intermediate Level I," completely revised, with Shapoor Bostanbakhsh. Ann Arbor, Michigan, xxvii + 322 pp.
     
1982  "Modern Persian, Intermediate Level II," Ann Arbor, Michigan, xxi + 332 pp. (unrelated to 1979 above).
     
1982  Glossaries to Modern Persian Elementary Level, with John Green, Ann Arbor, Michigan, v + 46 + 44 pp.
     
1982  "The Verbal Category of Inference in Persian," in Monumentum Georg Morgenstierne, II, Acta Iranica 22, pp. 263-287.
     
1983  "Where Guardian Spirits Watch by Night and Evil Spirits Fail, or Notes on the Zoroastrian Prototypical Heaven," in Festschrift in Honor of David Noel Freedman, edited by Carol Meyers and Michael O'Connor. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, pp. 625-645.
     
1984  "The Word in Zoroastrianism," Journal of Indo-European Studies 12.1-2: 133-178.
     
1985  "Haoma/Soma: The Plant (in Zoroastrianism)," in Papers in Honour of Mary Boyce, Vol. 2, Acta Iranica 25, pp. 699-726, 1 plate.
     
1985  "Aftar. Dialect," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 1, fasc. 6, pp. 592-593.
     
1985  "Anârak. Dialect," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 2., fasc.1, pp. 2-3.
     
1986  "A Spatial Model for Tense, Aspect and Mood," Folia Linguistica 19.3: 415-461. (verb systems of Persian, French, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Creole)
     
1987  "Convergence: Iranian Talyshi and Turkic Azari," in Select Papers from Sala-7, South Asian Languages Roundtable Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 1985, edited by Elena Bashir, Madhav M. Deshpande, Peter Edwin Hook. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Linguistics Club, pp. 385-405, 7 diagrams.
     
1987  "Persian," in The World's Major Languages, edited by Bernard Comrie. London: Croom Helm, pp. 523-546.
     
1988  "Baktiâri. Dialect," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 3, fasc. 5, pp. 559-561.
     
1989  "Modern Iranian," "Modern West Iranian," and "West Iranian Dialects," in Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, edited by Rüdiger Schmitt. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, pp. 246-250; 251-262; 294-295.
     
1989  "Behdinân. Dialect," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 4, fasc. 1, pp.105-108.
     
1989  "Boir-Ahmadi. Dialect," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 4, fasc. 3, pp. 325-326.
     
1989  "Metrics, Licenses, and Historical Linguistics," Journal of the American Oriental Society 109.2: 255-281. (metrics of Luri, Classical Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Middle Persian)      1990 "Typological Notes on Pronominal Cases in Iranian Tati," in Aspects of Iranian Culture in Honor of Richard Nelson Frye. Bulletin of the Asia Institute, N.S., Vol. 4, pp. 313-324.
     
1990  "Ehsan Yarshater," with Mary Boyce, in Papers in Honor of Ehsan Yarshater, Acta Iranica 30, IX-XXIII.
     
1990  "A Propositional Analysis on Literary Theory Applied to Middle Eastern (Literary) Genres," in Studies in Near Eastern Culture and History in Memory of Ernest Abdel-Massih, edited by James A. Bellamy. Ann Arbor: Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, pp. 215-225.
     
1990  "Spelling the Mystery of Time: Chronograms and Anagrams in the 'Shirazi Turk' by Hafiz," Journal of the American Oriental Society 110.3: 401-416.
     
1990  "George Glenn Cameron," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 4, fasc. 7, pp. 741-742.
     
1990  "Persian," in The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, edited by Bernard Comrie. London: Routledge, pp. 108-131.
     
1991  "Cases in Iranian," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 5, Fasc. 1, pp. 25-37.
     
1991  "Significance of Zoroastrian Rituals," Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America Journal 4.4: 14-15.
     
1992  "Central Dialects," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 5, Fasc. 3, pp. 242-252.
     
1992  "Languages. Old Iranian," The Anchor Bible Dictionary, edited by David Noel Freedman. New York: Doubleday, Vol. 4, pp. 217-220.
     
1992  "Persian," International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, edited by William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press, Vol. 2, pp. 183-188.
     
1992  "A Spatial Model Applied to West Iranian Verb Systems," in Proceedings of the XXXII International Congress for Asian and North African Studies, Hamburg, Germany, August 1986, edited by A. Wetzler and E. Hammerschmidt, Section 6. Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag, pp. 394- 395.
     
1994  "Saith Darius. Dialectic, Numbers, Time and Space at Behistun (DB, Old Persian Version, 520 B.C.)," in Achaemenid History VIII. Continuity and Change, edited by H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg, A. Kuhrt, M. Cool Root. Leiden: Nederlands Institut Voor Het Nabije Oosten, pp. 265-281.
     
1994  "Notes on Motivations in the Study of Persian," in Persian Studies in North America. Studies in Honor of Mohammad Ali Jazayery, edited by M. Marashi, Bethesda, Md.: Iranbooks, pp. 1-16.
     
1995  "Dialectology," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 7, Fasc. 4, pp. 362-370.
     
1995  "The Persian God Who Battled Evil," contributor to Persians: Masters of Empire. Alexandria, VI.: Time-Warner Books, pp. 126-127.
     
1995  "Zoroastrianism," Harper Collins Dictionary of Religion, edited by Jonathan Z. Smith. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, pp. 1150-1152.
     
1996  "Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Zoroaster," in Proceedings. Second International Congress, 5th to 8th January 1995, edited by H.J.M. Desai and H.N. Modi. Bombay: The K.R. Cama Institute, pp. 283-300.
     
1997  "Indo-European Languages," The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Vol. 3, 149-158.
     
1997  "Persian," The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Vol. 4, pp. 292-295.
     
1997  "The Logic of the Holy Immortals in Zoroastrianism," Journal of the Research and Historical Preservation Committee of the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America 2: 234- 274.
     
1997  "Persian Phonology," in Phonologies of Asia and Africa, edited by Alan S. Kaye. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, pp. 663-677.
     
1998  "Eštehârdî," Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 8.6, 651-654.
     
1999  "A Notes on Aryaman's Social and Cosmic Setting," in Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia. Evidence, Interpretation and Ideology, edited by Johannes Bronkhorst and Madhav Deshpande. Harvard Oriental Studies, Opera Minora, vol. 3, Cambridge: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 295-336.
     
1999  "Fars viii. - Dialects," Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 9.4, 362-73.      2000 "Farsi Language," Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online, Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Interactive. http://gme.grolier.com/gme-ol/static/base/gme-srch.htm
     
2000  "Farsi Language," Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online. Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Interactive. http://gme.grolier.com/gme-ol/static/base/gme-srch.htm
     
2000  "The Iranians and the Sarmatians: A Notes on Terminology," in Joan Aruz, Ann Farkas, Andrei Alekseev, and Elena Korolkova, editors, The Golden Deer of Eurasia. Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes, The State Hermitage, Sankt Petersburg, and the Archaeological Museum of Ufa. New York:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, distributor, 19-20.
     
2001  "Cosmic Numerology in the Yasna Liturgy. The Four Sacred Manthras," in: Philologica et Linguistica. Historia, Pluralitas, Universitas. Festschrift fur Helmut Humbach zum 80. Geburtstag am 4. Dezember 2001, edited by Walter Bisang and Maria Gabriela Schmidt, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 563-571.
     
2001  "References to Zoroaster and Zoroastrian Time Reckoning in Rumi's Masnavi," in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress, K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Bombay, January 6-9, 2000, 58-70.
     
2001-2  Teaching Materials. Recording of Intermediate Persian, 4 CDs, Language Resource Center, UM.
     
2002  “Gypsy Dialects”, Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 11.4, 415b-421b.
     
2002  “The IE Terms for Siblings of Spouse: Etymology and Chiastic Logic”, in: The Linguist’s Linguist. A Collection of Papers in Honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer, edited by Fabricio Cavoto, München: LINCOM EUROPA, vol. 2, 461-475.
     
2003  “Ferdowsi’s Haft Peykar: The Astrology of a Military Camp”, in: Select Papers Presented at the Second Ferdowsi Conference, Tehran, August 21-28, 2000. Boston: ILEX Foundation, 31 pp. Web-Pre-Publication TehranILEX. http://www.ilexfoundations.orf/pdf/ferdowsi_2/windfuhr300.pdf
     
2003  “Persian”, International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd rev. edition, edited by Bernard Comrie. Oxford University Press; revised entry.
     
2003  “Zoroastrian Myth and Constellations: Hauma and Zarathushtra”, Orientalia Suecana vols. 51-52, 171- 177 (July).

In Press/ Accepted for Publication
‘Cosmic Ages, Planetary Daiwas, and the Dates of Zarathushtra,’ in Jamshid Soroushian
Commemorative Volume, edited by Carlo G. Cereti and Farrokh J. Vajifdar. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, vol. 2, pp. 514-531.

‘Moods, or Degrees of Reality? Competing Categorical Vectors in Irano-Turkic Convergence,' in Turkic-Iranian Continguity, edited by Lars Johanson, Filiz Kiral, Christiane Bulut. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

‘Central Asian Arabic: The Irano-Arabic Dynamics of a New Perfect,' in Areas of Semitic-Iranian-Turkic Convergence. Linguistic Contact in Western and Central Asia in Past and Present, Uppsala, 18-20, May 2001, edited by Eva Csato, Lars Johanson, Bo Isaksson. London: Curzon.

‘Larestani Dialects,' Encyclopaedia Iranica.

‘Riddles and Chronograms,' a chapter in A General Introduction to Persian Literature, vol. 1, edited by J.T.P. Bruijn. Persian Heritage Foundation.

‘The Word in Zoroastrianism,' in The Word. Studies in the Language of Religion and the Religious Meaning of Language, edited by C.J. Swaeringen. Austin, Texas: U. Texas Press.

‘The Stags of Filippovka. Mithraic Coding in the South Ural Steppes of the Fourth Century B.C.’, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Nomads of
the Eurasian Steppes
, New York, October 12-13, 2000. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

‘Prayers and Hymns: Iran,' in Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, edited by Bruce Lincoln et al, Harvard University Press.

‘Zoroastrian and Taoist Ritual: Cosmology and Sacred Numerology’, in Zoroastrian Rituals in Context (= Studies in the History of Religions No.?), edited by Michael Stausberg and Astrid van Nahl. Leiden/Köln: Brill.

In Preparation
The Iranian Languages, editor and contributor, Curzon Press.

Book Reviews

1967  Boyle, John A., 1966, "Grammar of Modern Persian," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 87: 627-631.
     
1969  Sotude, Manuchehr, 1964, "Persian for English Speaking People," Second Book, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 64, nos. 11-12: column 590.
     
1971  Lambton, Ann K.S., 1967, "Key to Persian Grammar," Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 66, Nos. 7-8, columns 393-394.
     
1971  Yarshater, Ehsan, 1969, "A Grammar of Southern Tati Dialects, Median Dialect Studies I, Journal of the American Oriental Society 91: 370-374.
     
1973  Review of Studia Iranica, Vol. 1.1, 1972, Journal of the American Oriental Society 93.3: 369-370.
     
1974  Bateson, Mary C., 1970, "Structural Continuity in Poetry, A Linguistic Study of Five Pre-Islamic Odes," and Jacobi, Renate, 1971, "Studien zur Poetik der altarabischen Qaside,"in Journal of the American Oriental Society 94.4: 529-533.
     
1975  Reinert, Benedikt, 1972, "Hâqânî als Dichter. Poetische Logik und Phantasie," Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft: 408-413.
     
1975  Gignoux, Philippe, 1972, "Glossaire des Inscriptions Pehlevies et Parthes," Journal of the American Oriental Society 95.2: 296-298. (includes Windfuhr's discovery of Late Old Persian- Early Middle Persian rhythmic law)
     
1975  Henning, Walter B., 1972, "A Fragment of a Xwârezmian Dictionary," edited by Donald N. MacKenzie, Journal of the American Oriental Society 95.2: 298-299.
     
1976  "Language and Texts: The Nature of Linguistic Evidence," 1976, edited by Herbert H. Paper, Michigan Germanic Studies 2.1: 75-79.
     
1977  Hillmann, Michael, 1976, "Unity in the Ghazals of Hâfez," Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association 2.3: 62-63.
     
1978  Brunner, Christopher, 1977, "A Syntax of Western Middle Iranian," Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association.
     
1984  Shaked, Shaul, 1981, "The Wisdom of the Sasanian Sages (Denkard VI)," Muslim World 74.3-4: 206-208.
     
1984  Saad, George N., 1982, "Transitivity, Causation, and Passivization, A Semantic-Syntactic Study of the Verb in Classical Arabic," Arab Perspectives 5: 30-32.
     
1987  Boyce, Mary, 1984, "Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism," Iranian Studies, Summer-Autumn 1986, 301-304.
     
1987  Ghanoonparvar, M.R. and F. Givehchian, 1985, "Persian for Beginners," Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association 21: 225-6.
     
1989  Beeman, William, 1986, "Language, Status, and Power in Iran," Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association 23: 196-198.
     
1991  Choksy, Jamsheed, 1989, "Purity and Pollution in Zoroastrianism, Triumph over Evil," Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association.
     
1996  Eilers,Wilhelm, "Westiranische Mundarten III: Die Mundart von Sivand," Der Islam 73: 379-383.
     
1999  Stausberg, Michael, 1998, "Faszination Zarathushtra," 2 vols., FEZANA Journal, Fall 1999, 69-70.

MEMBERSHIPS

American Association of Teachers of Persian.
American Oriental Society.
Middle East Studies Association.
Society for Iranian Studies.
Societas Iranologica Europaea.


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