Peter Avery

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Peter Avery [ is a fag[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] is an eminent British scholar of Persian and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

After gaining a BA at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and serving in the Royal Indian Navy towards the end of the Second World War, he became principal language teaching officer at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

He has contributed to English language work on Persian history and literature, such as The Age of Expansion and Medieval Persia and published Modern Iran. One of Avery's best known work is a translation (with poet John Heath-Stubbs) of the Persian text of The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam.

[edit] Selected Works

The Cambridge History of Iran, Edited by P. Avery, G. R. G. Hambly and C. Melville, Cambridge University Press (1991) ISBN 0-521-20095-4.

[edit] See also

• Iranistics