Burry me in IRAN!

Frye felt that Persian civilization was under-appreciated by other Muslims, and Arab Muslims in particular. Frye wrote:

"Arabs no longer understand the role of Iran and the Persian language in the formation of Islamic culture. Perhaps they wish to forget the past, but in so doing they remove the bases of their own spiritual, moral and cultural beingwithout the heritage of the past and a healthy respect for it there is little chance for stability and proper growth."

(R. N. Frye, The Golden Age of Persia, London: Butler & Tanner Ltd., 1989, page 236)

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.

Frye first attended the University of Illinois, where he received an BA 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. He has also served as faculty, guest lecturer, or visiting scholar at:

Habibiya College in Kabul (1942-44)
Frankfurt University (1959-60)
Hamburg University (1968-69)
Pahlavi University of Shiraz (1970-76)
University of Tajikistan (1990-92).
Professor Frye helped found the Center for Middle Eastern Studies[2] at Harvard, the first Iranian studies program in America. He also served as Director of the Asia Institute in Shiraz (1970-1975), was on the Board of Trustees of the Pahlavi University at Shiraz (1974-78), and Chairman, Committee on Inner Asian Studies, at Harvard (1983-89), and as Editor of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute (1970-1975 and 1987-99).

Among Frye's students were Annemarie Schimmel,[3] Oleg Grabar,[4] Frank Huddle (former US Ambassador to Tajikistan), John Limbert, and Michael Crichton, whose Hollywood film The 13th Warrior is loosely based on Frye's translation of Ibn Fadlan's account of his travels up the river Volga.[5]

Frye was also directly responsible for inviting Iranian scholars as distinguished visiting fellows to Harvard University, under a fellowship program initiated by Henry Kissinger. Examples of such guests include Mehdi Haeri Yazdi (19231999), Sadegh Choubak, Jalal al Ahmad, and others.
Iranians responded enthusiastically to his appreciation.

In August 1953, shortly before Mosaddegh's fall, the prominent Iranian linguist Ali Akbar Dehkhoda gave Frye the title (laqab): "Irandoost" (meaning "a friend of Iran").[7]

A ceremony was held in Iran on June 27, 2004 to pay tribute to the six-decade endeavors of Professor Frye on his lifetime contribution to Iranology, research work on the Persian language, and the history and culture of Iran.

In his will, Professor Frye has expressed his wish to be buried next to the Zayandeh River in Isfahan. This request was approved by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in September 2007.[8] Two other American Iranologists, Arthur Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, are already buried there.

Frye is a popular public speaker at numerous Iran-related gatherings. In 2005, he spoke at UCLA, encouraging the Persians present to cherish their culture and identity.[9][10] In 2004, he spoke at an architectural conference in Tehran, expressing his dismay at hasty modernization that ignores the beauties of traditional Persian architecture (see Architecture of Tehran).

Why Harvard professor wants to be buried in IRAN? چرا استاد هاروارد می خواهد آرامگاهش کنار زاینده رود باشد؟

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[ajaxy12]

واقعا اگر این خانم ایرانی براش متاسفم که هنوز مردم و دولت رو  نمی تونه تشخیص بده ودنبال بد نام کردن ایران و ایرانی هست امید وارم از کارهاش برای بد نام کردن ایران پشیمون بشه

[ThePersianGulf]

عزیزم این خانم به عنوان یک مجری حرفه ایی تلویزیون داره پرسش هایی که ممکنه به ذهن بینندگان جهانی و غیر ایرانی برسه را مطرح میکنه و توی این وادی ها نیست که میهن خود را بدنام یا نیکنام کنه.آیا شما انتظار دارید از ایران جانب داری کنه یا در حرفه اش بیطرف باشه؟ پیروز باشید

[ThePersianGulf]

همین پرسش های زیرکانه، حرفه ایی و بجای این خانم بود که "پروفسور فرای" به روشنی آنانرا پاسخ داد تا هیچگونه شک و شبهه ایی برای بینندگان غیر ایرانی باقی نماند که مردم با فرهنگ و بزرگ ایران زمین با حاکمان مستبد ایران متفاوت هستند و اینرا جزیی ازدورهء تاریخ درحال گذر ایران دانست.

[99999999988888888]

The CNN reporter is a traitor and Zionist tool. She is no longer Iranian in my eyes.

[ThePersianGulf]

آسیه نامداربرای یک گویندهء حرفه ایست و چیزی بر خلاف ایران نگفت. کار هر خبرنگار اینست که تمامی پرسش هایی مه به ذهن مخاطبان میرسد از مهمان برنامه بپرسد، ما باید افتخار کنیم که هموطنمان یک گزارشگر موفق و مسلط در سی ان ان است و انگلیسی را مانند زبان مادریش صحبت میکند.

[ThePersianGulf]

I ought to tell those Iranians who studied little about their history and contribution to the world civilization:

آب در کوزه و ما تشنه لبان میگردیم / یاردرخانه و ما گرد جهان میگردیم

[kirbyman1kanden7pf]

he seems passionate about this so why not.

[xashaiar]

Yes Professor Richard Frye teach them! It is time for the world to rediscover Iran. Iran means Greater Iran, it means the land of Cyrus the Great. It means the land of the ONLY CONTINUOUS CIVILISATION in history.

Iran once we free you from mullahs (as Professor said it is in the course of history) we will build you again.

[arc1342]

@99999999988888888

just for people to know...if you see these types of scounts with just numbers and they coment on videos that are anti Islamic republic, they are most likely basiji people from the IRI wich are spreading propeganda... not that CNN is getting lots of influence from Israel is a lie...

[IranHistory]

The gulf is Persian. Azerbaijan is Persian. And God Bless Dr. Richard Frye.

[shawnscool]

A great guy with great knowledge. What a wise man! finally some Americans start to understand Iran and its greatness

[hecho142]

Esfahan is really wonderful

[IranianBeauty1]

Iran :)

[shahinpar]

He is right, Iran (Persia) and China are the only two dominant civilizations in the world. China has just stayed in its own territory, but Iranian culture has influenced the whole middleeast and the west.

[arashasadi72]

A truly man of honor.

I think all americans should be proud of Prof Frye. He shoulf be awarded Noble prize.

[RebornAc3]

Persian Gulf forever.

[utash321]

He is a great man!

He is a man of honor and principal!

God bless him and god bless IRAN that he loves dearly!

[jajarad]

The Iranian people are traced to the ancient Indo-European Aryans known as the Iranians or Proto-Iranians.

Iranian people have played an important role throughout history, the Achaemenid Persians established one of the world's first multi-national states, Scythian-Sarmatian nomads dominated the vast expanses of Russia and western Siberia.