Persia / en ÇŃ×ÓÖ±˛Ą to offer courses in ancient Persian languages /news/u-t-offer-courses-ancient-persian-languages <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">ÇŃ×ÓÖ±˛Ą to offer courses in ancient Persian languages</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/j20260__y_16_10e___y_17_10d_.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=muwbuokb 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/j20260__y_16_10e___y_17_10d_.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=LuPLiM41 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/j20260__y_16_10e___y_17_10d_.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=LOYBDZwv 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/j20260__y_16_10e___y_17_10d_.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=muwbuokb" alt="Ancient text in Avestan script"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lavende4</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-08-24T13:27:41-04:00" title="Wednesday, August 24, 2016 - 13:27" class="datetime">Wed, 08/24/2016 - 13:27</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Text from an Avestan manuscript (University of Frankfurt)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/persia" hreflang="en">Persia</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/iran" hreflang="en">Iran</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/languages" hreflang="en">languages</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/zoroastrianism" hreflang="en">Zoroastrianism</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/near-middle-eastern-civilizations" hreflang="en">Near &amp; Middle Eastern Civilizations</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The University of Toronto will now offer Avestan and Pahlavi language courses in&nbsp;the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s&nbsp;Department of Near &amp; Middle Eastern Civilizations, thanks to a US$250,000 commitment from the Persian Heritage Foundation.</p> <p>The courses will be taught by <strong style="line-height: 20.8px;">Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina,&nbsp;</strong>the first holder of the&nbsp;Yarshater Lectureship in Avestan and Pahlavi Languages. The&nbsp;limited-term lectureship is named in honour of&nbsp;Ehsan Yarshater, a professor emeritus of&nbsp;Iranian studies&nbsp;at Columbia University, the first president of the International Society of Iranian Studies, and founder and editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica.</p> <p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">The gift from the foundation&nbsp;launches the Department of Near &amp; Middle Eastern Civilization’s&nbsp;</span><a href="https://donate.utoronto.ca/give/show/60" style="line-height: 20.8px;">community&nbsp;fundraising campaign</a><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">&nbsp;to support the teaching of Avestan and Pahlavi languages.</span></p> <p>“We are honoured to have a lectureship in Avestan and Pahlavi languages named for Dr. Yarshater,” said Iranian history professor&nbsp;<strong>Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi</strong>. “With doctorates in Persian literature from the University of Tehran and in Old and Middle Iranian from the University of London, Dr. Yarshater has been a pioneer in Iranian studies and in disseminating and making accessible scholarly research to both Persian and English language readerships. As a scholar, visionary academic administrator, and founder of major scholarly publication series, he has been a tireless advocate and source of inspiration and support for many students and scholars in Iranian studies.”</p> <p>The lectureship will expand on the University’s historic strengths in Iranian culture and history by creating a robust offering of Persian languages. Since 2007, the Department of Near &amp; Middle Eastern Civilizations has been unique among leading North American universitiy departments&nbsp;in regularly offering undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of Zoroastrianism.&nbsp;</p> <p>“We are grateful for the support of the Persian Heritage Foundation in launching the Yarshater Lectureship,” said&nbsp;<strong>Timothy Harrison</strong>, chair of the Department of Near &amp; Middle Eastern Civilizations. “By offering Old and Middle Iranian languages, the University of Toronto is developing one of the most comprehensive academic programs in the highly diverse field of Iranian studies, and our hope is that, with continued community support, we will make these courses a regular part of the curriculum.”</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:27:41 +0000 lavende4 100249 at