Ehsan Yarshater Editor

Philip G. Kreyenbroek is Professor of Iranian Studies at Georg-August University, Gottingen, Germany, and Director of the 'Seminar on Iranian Studies'. Ulrich Marzolph is Professor of Islamic Studies at Georg-August University, Gottingen, Germany, and a senior member of the editorial committee of the 'Encyclopaedia of Fairy Tales'. Ehsan Yarshater is the Director of the Center for Iranian Studies and Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Columbia University and the Founding Editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica.