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Invisible East researcher Pejman Firoozbakhsh honours Iranologist and Persian editor Iraj Afshar in his newest article:

"Muṣāliḥa-nāma-ī bi zabān-i Fārsī az sāl-i 473 AH" [A Persian Settlement Contract from the Year 473/1080], in: Bi yād-i Īraj Afshār, Ed. by Jawād Basharī, Vol. 1, Tihrān: Duktur Maḥmūd Afshār, 1400/2022: pp. 439-448. 

 

Read the article in Persian here.

 

 

 

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