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Notes on Richard Nelson Frye

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  • Born 1920
  • Aga Khan Professor of Iranian-Emeritus Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations. Professor Central Asian history.
  • Ph.D. Harvard University, 1946.
  • I have it from a reliable CA source that Frye was with the OSS in WWII. No indication of later involvement.
  • Area of interest: Iranian philology, history of Iran and Central Asia before 1000.
  • Books:
    • Frye, Richard Nelson - Bukhara: The Medieval Achievement 1965 Univ. Oklahoma Press
    • Frye Richard N., (ED.): Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, vol. III, Dura-Europos, London 1968,
    • Frye Richard N., The Golden Age of Persia. Weidenfeld. London. 1993. Pbk. 289pp.
    • Frye Richard N., The Golden Age Of Persia: The Arabs in the East. Illus. in B&W. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (History of Civilization). 1993.
    • Frye, Richard Nelson, 1920-Title: The heritage of Central Asia from antiquity to the Turkish expansion. Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, 1996.
    • Frye Richard N., The Heritage of Persia: The pre-Islamic History of One of the World's Great Civilizations New York: The World Publishing Company, 1963
    • Frye Richard N., The Histories of Nishapur , HARVARD ORIENTAL SERIES, DEPARTMENT OF SANSKRIT AND INDIAN STUDIES and distributed by the HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and London, UK. 1965.
    • Frye Richard N., IRAN. George Allen and Unwin London 1960 126pp.
    • Frye Richard N., Bukhara, The Medieval Achievement. University Of Oklahoma Press Norman, Oklahoma 1965
    • Frye Richard N., (ED.): The Near East and the Great Powers. . Harvard University Press Massachusetts 1951
    • Frye Richard N., (ED.): Neue Methodologie in der Iranistik, Wiesbaden 1974.
    • Frye Richard N., NOTES ON THE EARLY COINAGE OF TRANSOXIANA. Numismatic Notes, 113. New York: American Numismatic Association
    • Frye Richard N., Persia. (3d ed.) London: Allen and Unwin, 1969.
    • Frye Richard N., Sasanian Remains from Qasr-i Abu Nasr. Seals, Sealings, and Coins. Harvard University Cambridge, MA 1973 4to in cloth. 133 pg. of text, 457 illustrations.
    • Thomas, Lewis V. and Frye Richard N., The United States and Turkey and Iran. Archon Books 1971
  • Articles:
  • Frye, Richard , Prof. Harvard Moderator, Title:  "Can Israel Survive?" Date:  October 10, 1952, Speakers:  Dorothy Thompson, Newspaper Correspondent, Faris Malouf, Boston Lawyer, Hon. Aubrey S. Eban, Israeli Ambassador.

  • Frye Richard N., "General Remarks on the pre-Tang Silk Road." The Third Silk Road Conference at Yale University July 10 - 12, 1998

  • Bulletin of the Asia Institute Vol. IV Aspects of Iranian Culture: In Honor of Richard Nelson Frye. Edited by Carol Altman Bromberg, Bernard Goldman, Prods Oktor Skjærvø, and A. Sh. Shahbazi. Richard Nelson Frye: An Appreciation, A. Sh. Shahbazi Bibliography of Richard Nelson Frye.

  • Bulletin of the Asia Institute INSTITUTE 10 (June 1998), Studies in Honor of Vladimir A. Livshits. Ivan Steblin-Kamenskii and Richard Nelson Frye, "Vladimir Aronovich Livshits".

  • PUBLICATION- Livshits Festschrift, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 10 Richard Nelson Frye and Prods Oktor Skjaervo, "The Middle Persian Inscription from Meshkinshahr".

  • Frye Richard N., "Ancient Bukhara", Conference: "Bukhara: the Sources,the Myth, the Architecture and the Urban Fabric" MIT 9th and 10th of November, 1996.

  • The Cambridge History of Iran:Vol. 4 - The Period from the Arab Invasions to the Seljuqs, Richard N. Frye, ed.
  • In 1994 Professor Frye donated archaeology and history journals to the Sabre Foundation.

For Further Reading:

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