# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iraj-afshar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:35:12.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iraj-afshar"
name: "Iraj Afshar"
slug: "iraj-afshar"
description: "Iraj Afshar was a bibliographer, historian, scholar, professor, and a figure in the field of Persian studies. Afshar was a professor emeritus of the University of Tehran. He was a consulting editor of Encyclopædia Iranica at Columbia University."
tagline: "Iranian bibliographer, historian (1925–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Iraj_Afshar_in_Vienna_2007_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-10-08"
deathDate: "2011-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             14.91803278688525
  historical:           12.31829066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ايرج أفشار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايرج افشار"
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    title: "Iraj Afshar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iradsch_Afsch%C4%81r"
    title: "Iradsch Afschār"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraj_Afshar"
    title: "Iraj Afshar"
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    title: "ایرج افشار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iraj Afshar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraj_Afshar"
    title: "Iraj Afshar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iraj Afshar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Афшар, Ирадж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Эраҷ Афшор"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump