Farshid Delshad

Farshid Delshad (Persian: فرشید دلشاد) is an affiliated researcher, scholar of linguistics and Iranian Studies. He was Lecturer of Persian and Comparative Linguistics at University of Freiburg^[1] and at University of Bern.^[2][3] Delshad's first PhD and academic thesis at Tbilisi State University in 2000 dealt with Comparative Linguistics and Caucasian Studies.^[4]

Farshid Delshad
Farshid Delshad, Judeo-Persian Conference, Paris 2020
Occupation(s)	Academic, writer, translator, researcher

Delshad received his postdoctoral from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany in Historical-Comparative Linguistics and his thesis was Philological Studies on Iranian and Semitic Loanwords in Classical Georgian.^[5] He has further specialized in German and Indo-Germanic linguistics.^[6] Since 1994 he has been working as a scholar of Iranian and comparative linguistics in Germany,^[7] and Switzerland.^[8] He is currently working at the Middle East Institute as a teaching faculty. Farshid Delshad has contributed to minority research,^[9] namely religious^[10] and ethnic populations in the Islamic World.^[11] He has also written extensively on Intercultural Communication and Sufism.^[12] He is also a translator of Russian and Georgian literary works to Persian and vice versa.^[13] He is the first Persian translator of the Knight in the Panther's Skin, a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustaveli. He worked as a cultural advisor and certified interpreter for the United Nations in Geneva.^[14]

Podcasts

Orientalistics: Podcast on Language, Religion and Culture ^[15]

Books

• Pournia, Solomon (2023). The promised land of Israel, an in-depth look at Zionism in the Quran and in Jewish history. Translated by Dr. Farshid Delshad. Fulton books. ISBN 979-8-88505-471-3.
• Nezhad, Shahin; Delshad, Farshid (2023). Irānshahr and the Downfall of the Sassanid Dynasty. Persia at the Eve of the Arab Invasions. Logos Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8325-5611-2. ^[16]
• Habib Levy (2022): Worldviews and Ideas. Collections of Sociocultural Essays. Edited by Nahid Pirnazar Oberman. Translated and Reviewed by Farshid Delshad Habib Levy Cultural Foundation Chino Hills, CA.
• Nezhad, Shahin (2021). Zoroaster, A Global Perspective. Translated by Dr. Farshid Delshad. Iranian Renaissance Foundation. ISBN 978-1736881903.
• Delshad, Farshid (2015). Modern Persian Textbook. Wiesbaden: Reichert Publishing.^[17][18]
• Delshad, Farshid (2010). Interaction of Religion, Morality, and Social Work. Munich: AVM. ISBN 9783899754483.
• Georgica et Irano-Semitica, Studies on Iranian and Semitic Loanwords in Classical Georgian, Philological Approaches towards Historical-Comparative Linguistics, Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV) Baden-Baden 2009.^[19]
• Chrestomathy of Classical and Modern Persian Prose from 9th to 21st Century with Biographical Surveys, Annotations and a Concise Persian-German Dictionary, Harrasowitz Publishing, Wiesbaden 2007 (New Edition 2009).^[20]
• Anthologia Persica, A Selection of Classical and Modern Persian Poetry from 9th to 21st Century, with Biographical Surveys, Annotations and a Concise Persian-German Dictionary, Logos Publishing, Berlin 2007 (New Edition 2009).^[21]
• Periodica Persica, Persian Newspaper and Scientific Reading, with Annotations, Exercises and Persian-German Glossary, Logos Publishing, Berlin 2007 (New Edition 2009).^[22]
• One Thousand and One Georgian Proverbs (ათასერთი ქართული ანდაზა) with Tea Shurgharia (თეა შურღაია).^[23] Bilingual, A Comparative Translation from Georgian, (Persian Title: Hezāro yek żarbolmasal-e gorǧī), Publication of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tehran 2000.^[24]
• Shota Rustaveli, Knight in the Panther's Skin, A Georgian National Epic, Translation and Rendering, (Persian Title: Palangīnehpūš), Iran-Jam Publishing House, Tehran 1998.^[25]