Jaleh Amouzgar (, born 4 December 1939 in Khoy, West Azerbaijan) is an Iranologist and a university professor. Life Amouzgar holds a Ph.D. from Sorbonne University in Iranistics (Iranian linguistics). She is currently chairman of the department of Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages at the Tehran University. Prof. Amouzgar, in collaboration with Prof. Ahmad Tafazzoli, has contributed significantly to Ancient Iranian studies and the history of literature in ancient Iran. She has also associated with the Encyclopædia Iranica project at Columbia University. She has won numerous awards including Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and Persian Cypress Award (an Iranian Cultural Heritage Prize) in 2016. Works Zoroastrian myth of life Pahlavi language, literature and instructions Mythological history of Iran The first samples and the first man on legendary Iranian Shahriyar (translation) Le Cinquieme Livre Du Denkard, Ahmad Tafazzuli (Translator), Peeters, 2001-01-01, See also Iranistics Persian culture List of famous Persian women References External links Biography of Jaleh Amouzgar Portrait of Jaleh Amouzgar Iranian Iranologists Linguists of Persian Grammarians of Persian Linguists from Iran Iranian grammarians 20th-century Iranian historians University of Paris alumni Academic staff of the University of Tehran 1939 births People from Khoy Living people Iranian women academics Iranian expatriates in France