By IRNA,
London : Renowned British Iranologist, Professor Peter Ivory, a retired Cambridge University professor and researcher, died here at 86.
According to IRNA, Professor Ivory who had spent long years researching on Iranian culture, literature and history, passed away in his birth place, London, on Monday.
He had written many books on Iran and has also translated into English the works of such great Iranian poets and Gnostics as Hafez, Attar and Khayyam.
In late spring season of 2008 he received the top award of Iran’s Farabi Festival for Human Science Researchers, as well as the IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s plate of honor.
During the ceremony in which Professor Ivory received his award in the presence of Iran’s Ambassador to London at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, he said, “It is a great honor for me to receive this award and this plate of honor, and I wholeheartedly appreciate the kindness and sense of appreciation of the Iranian academic society and government towards me.”
He added, “For me, the greatest pleasure of life has been attachment to the glorious Iranian culture, and I have always deeply enjoyed relations with Iran and the Iranians, whose culture is abundant in civilizational traits, modesty, kindness, sweetness, and deep understanding of mankind’s achievements and defeats.” He added, “Experience of friendship with Iran and falling in love with the Iranian culture has been the greatest joy of my life. Iran is my second home country and I hope I would live long enough to visit Iran once again and to see such beautiful Iranian cities as Kashan, Yazd, Isfahan and Shiraz one more time.”