Introduction: The Roar of Silence

After completing that fellowship, François then held a variety of posts, including being appointed to teach Iranian and Semitic languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Universität Hamburg, and holding research appointments on a number of major projects in Iranian studies, inc...

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Published in:Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2021-07, Vol.31 (3), p.395-402
Main Authors: Zeini, Arash, Benkato, Adam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African studies
Antiquity
Arabic language
Calendars
Careers
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Friendship
Middle Ages
Persian language
Retirement
Semitic languages
Zoroastrianism
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Summary:After completing that fellowship, François then held a variety of posts, including being appointed to teach Iranian and Semitic languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Universität Hamburg, and holding research appointments on a number of major projects in Iranian studies, including the Manichaean Dictionary and Bactrian Chronology projects at SOAS, the Shahnama project at Cambridge, and most recently the project Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages at UCL. [...]without a typical academic pedigree, François spent his career, until his retirement in 2018, without major institutional resources. [...]although it is not uncommon for scholars, especially those in Semitic or Iranian studies, to have a solid working knowledge of several ancient languages, it is rare for an individual scholar to attain the competency in languages and literatures such as Arabic, Persian, or Syriac, not to mention in the many ancient Iranian and Semitic languages, required to teach them at an advanced level.
ISSN:1356-1863
2051-2066
1474-0591
DOI:10.1017/S1356186321000201