A black and white head and shoulders photograph of Ehsan Yarshater wearing a suit and tie and leaning against a window with curtains. Yarshater (1920–2018), served as the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies at Columbia University and was a towering figure in the field.

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(2023) UCLA receives a gift of $11 million from the Persian Heritage Foundation to establish the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions. Administrative infrastructure and leadership will be provided by the UCLA Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World, formerly known as the Pourdavoud Center and the first institute in the UCLA College’s Division of Humanities.