Peter Avery

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ruba'i of 12th century Persian poet and philosopher, Omar Khayyam, Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs, 1979.

Peter Avery OBE is an eminent British scholar of Persian and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Peter Avery was born May 15, 1923. 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 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, first published in 1979.

[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.
• Peter Avery, The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz, 603 p. (Archetype, Cambridge, UK, 2007). ISBN 1-901383-09-1
  Note: This translation is based on Divān-e Hāfez, Volume 1, The Lyrics (Ghazals), edited by Parviz Natel-Khanlari (Tehran, Iran, 1362 AH/1983-4).

[edit] See also

• Iranistics

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