Harvard Professor Nelson Richard Frye want to get buried in Greater-Iran (Aryanam-Vaejah)

Richard Nelson Frye (born c. 1920) is an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University. His professional areas of interest are Iranian philology, and the history of Iran and Central Asia before 1000 CE.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama to a family of immigrants from Sweden, "Freij" has four children, his second marriage being to an Iranian-Assyrian scholar, Dr. Eden Naby, from Urmia, Iran who teaches at Columbia University. He speaks fluent Russian, German, Arabic, Persian, French, Pashto, Uzbek, and Turkish,[1] and has extensive knowledge of Avestan, Pahlavi, Sogdian, and other Iranian languages and dialects, both extinct and current.

He and his wife Eden Naby were also teaching in Afghanistan´s schools and Universities (Daneshgah-e Kabul o Daneshgah-e Balkh and Habibia School in Kabul).

Frye first attended the University of Illinois, where he received an AB in history and philosophy in 1939. He received his MA from Harvard University in 1940 and his PhD from Harvard in 1946, in Asiatic history.

Frye served with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He was stationed in Afghanistan and traveled extensively in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.

He returned to Harvard to teach. He was a member of the Harvard faculty from 1948 until 1990. He is now a professor emeritus at Harvard.

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[Paris701]

This man has received a free house in ISFAHAN , from Islamic regime in Iran , Mr Fry take note that you will be chuck out soon with your Islamic regime friend , take your corruption to your country current regime .

[Leader2OO7]

@Paris701

What is wrong with that? He also want to get buried in Iran. Your family donb´t have any houses in Iran?

[1000afarinbarto]

An extremely intelligent man

[navidutube]

Viva Iran and all Iranians from all the races... Cultural Iran comprises half of the globe

[navikhi]

I felt impressed with his wish.He no doubt is an intelligent man and I surely take this decision of his as a suggestion for myself too.

[pk13285]

why iran without islam is loved in Europe

[omidsolhjoo]

Dear Prof. Frye, I'm thrilled that you love Iran so much. But wouldn't it better to pay respect to 70,000,000 Iranians, by distancing yourself from the brutal Mulla's Government? If I were you, I would have arranged for my re-burial in Iran, when the brutal regime is gone and a democratic government has come to power. This will be a great support for the desperate people of Iran who cannot raise their voice under regime's barbaric pressure. With best regards, a heart-broken Green Iranian ...

[omidsolhjoo]

Dear Prof. Frye, I'm thrilled that you love Iran so much. But wouldn't it better to pay respect to 70,000,000 Iranians, by distancing yourself from the brutal Mulla's Government? If I were you, I would have arranged for my re-burial in Iran, when the brutal regime is gone and a democratic government has come to power. This will be a great support for the desperate people of Iran who cannot raise their voice under regime's barbaric pressure. With best regards, a heart-broken Green Iranian ...

[arashasadi72]

What a great man. 

[haminjoory]

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[iraniantiislam]

Wise man