Richard N. Frye

Richard Nelson Frye (10 Januari 1920 – 27 Maret 2014) adalah seorang cendekiawan Amerika Serikat yang mempelajari studi Iran dan Asia Tengah, dan Profesor Emeritus Studi Iran Aga Khan di Universitas Harvard. Bidang minat profesionalnya adalah filologi Iran dan sejarah Iran dan Asia Tengah sebelum tahun 1000 M.

Lahir di Birmingham, Alabama, dari keluarga imigran dari Swedia, "Freij" memiliki empat orang anak, pernikahan keduanya dengan seorang cendekiawan, yang mengajar di Universitas Columbia. Ia fasih berbahasa Rusia, Jerman, Arab, Persia, Pashtun, Prancis, Uzbek, dan Turki,Greater Iran, Mazda Publishers, 2005.  dan memiliki pengetahuan luas tentang bahasa dan dialek Avesta, Pahlavi, Sogdi, dan bahasa serta dialek Iran lainnya, baik yang sudah punah maupun yang masih ada.

Meskipun Frye lebih dikenal karena karya-karyanya tentang Iran, masyarakat Iran dan Asia Tengah Iran, cakupan studinya jauh lebih luas dan meliputi sejarah Bizantium, Kaukasus, dan Utsmaniyah, Turkestan Timur, Asyur dan masyarakat Asiria, seni Iran kuno dan abad pertengahan, seni rupa Islam, Sufisme, arkeologi Tiongkok dan Jepang, dan berbagai bahasa Iran dan non-Iran termasuk Avesta, Persia Kuno, Persia Pertengahan, Partia, Sogdia, Saka, dan Baktria, Persia Baru, Arab, Turki, dan bahkan Tiongkok, di samping bahasa penelitian yang meliputi Prancis, Jerman, Italia, dan Rusia.

 Bibliografi 
 Notes on the Early Coinage of Transoxania; Numismatic Notes, 113, American Numismatic Association, New York 1949 
 The Near East and the Great Powers, Harvard University Press, 1951
 Iran, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1960
 The Heritage of Persia: The pre-Islamic History of One of the World's Great Civilizations, World Publishing Company, New York, 1963. Reprinted by Mazda Publishers, 2004. www.mazdapublishers.com
 Bukhara: The Medieval Achievement, University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Reprinted by Mazda Publishers, 1997. www.mazdapublishers.com
 The Histories of Nishapur, Harvard University Press, (Harvard Oriental Series, 45) 1965
 Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, vol. III, Dura-Europos, London, 1968
 Persia (3rd edition) Allen and Unwin, London, 1969
 The United States and Turkey and Iran, Archon Books, 1971
 Sasanian Remains from Qasr-i Abu Nasr. Seals, Sealings, and Coins, Harvard University Press, 1973
 Neue Methodologie in der Iranistik, Wiesbaden, 1974
 The Golden Age Of Persia: The Arabs in the East, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1988

 The heritage of Central Asia from antiquity to the Turkish expansion Markus Wiener, Princeton, 1996


 Greater Iran, Mazda Publishers, 2005, 
 Ibn Fadlan's Journey To Russia, 2005, Markus Wiener Publisher, 

 Referensi 

 Pranala luar 
Iranians pay tribute to Richard Nelson Frye, Mehr News Agency, July 5, 2004.
 Waghmar, Burzine. Obituary: Richard Nelson Frye (1920–2014). Societas Iranologica Europaea  .
Professor Frye, a great American Iranologist wills to be buried in Iran  another
Dr. Frye's statements at UCLA in March 2005
Photos of Dr. Frye's lecture at UCLA, March 13, 2005
Dr. Frye criticized the architectural development of modern Tehran.
Excerpts from The Greater Iran: A 20th-Century Odyssey, the memoirs of R. N. Frye
Dr. Frye's page at the Iran Heritage website
Dr. Frye's page at the Vohuman.org
Former President of Iran Mr. Khatami praised Dr. Frye 
Frye, R. N. Reforms of Khosrow Anoushirvan, the Sasanian Shahanshah of Iran, The History of Ancient Iran, 1983.
 Syria and Assyria
Cover story on Dr. Frye in OCPC magazine
Frye, R. N. "Ethnic Identity in Iran." 2002.
Prof. Richard Frye's Memoirs in Persian 

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