Special Grants – Soudavar Memorial Foundation

Persian Collections at the University of Oxford

The Soudavar Memorial Foundation awarded a grant in 2009 to the University of Oxford enabling them to update their collections of Persian language material, books, periodicals and digital items. The Middle East Centre Library is based at St Anthony’s College at the University of Oxford, the premises of which are soon to be greatly expanded with...

Persian Collections at Concordia University

Iranian Studies at Concordia University encompasses the broad sweep of Iranian civilization, with attention to its influence on the literature, art, and social norms of peoples from the Balkans to India and China from ancient times to the present. Iran scholars at Concordia have achieved worldwide recognition through the publishing of research, ...

British Library Persian Manuscripts Project

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, holding around 170 million items from many countries, in many languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Libr...

The Soudavar Memorial Foundation granted a special grant to the 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS), held at the Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan, from 11 to 15 August 2025. This generous support helped ensure the conference’s success and demonstrated the Foundation’s...

The Association for Iranian Studie Institutional Member

The Association for Iranian Studies, formerly International Society for Iranian Studies, and the Society for Iranian Studies, was founded in 1967 as an academic society to support and promote the field of Iranian Studies at the international level. ISIS, an affiliated member of the international Middle East Studies Association (MESA), is a priva...

Journal of Persianate Societies: The journal of the Association for the Study of Persianate Socieities

The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) is a non-governmental, non-political, not-for-profit professional organisation for researchers and scholars interested in the culture and civilization of the Persian-speaking societies and related areas in the Iranian civilizational area. The Association supports the efforts of scholar...

Encyclopædia Iranica

The Encyclopædia Iranica is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The academic reference work will eventually cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the whole range of Iranian studies resea...

Revealing and Exploring: The John Rylands Library’s Persian Manuscripts

This project focuses on the outstanding collection of Persian manuscripts housed in The University of Manchester’s iconic neo-gothic John Rylands Library. The collection contains almost one thousand manuscripts, including a number of unique texts. Dating from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries CE, the manuscripts encompass a wide range o...