# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iraj-bashiri
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:17:23.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iraj-bashiri"
name: "Iraj Bashiri"
slug: "iraj-bashiri"
description: "Iraj Bashiri is professor emeritus of history at the University of Minnesota, United States, and one of the leading scholars in the fields of Central Asian studies and Iranian studies. Fluent in English, Persian, Tajik, and several Turkic languages, Bashiri has been able to study and translate works otherwise inaccessible to the mostly Russian-speaking Central Asian studies community. Bashiri’s career focus started on Iran, and engaged also with Central Asia, notably the Tajik identity and the relations between Tajiks and the Turkic people of Central Asia, namely the Uzbeks."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Iraj_Bashiri.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.446327683615819
  historical:           8.741901333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/index.html"
sources:
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    title: "ايراچ باشيرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iraj Bashiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ایرج بشیری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iraj Bashiri"
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    title: "Башири, Ирадж"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0rec_Be%C5%9Firi"
    title: "İrec Beşiri"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump