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, 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
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* *The heritage of Central Asia from antiquity to the Turkish expansion* Markus Wiener, Princeton, 1996
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* *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* http://www.societasiranologicaeu.org/content/news.html .
*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 https://financialtribune.com/articles/art-and-culture/93489/prof-richard-frye-s-memoirs-in-persian