Willem Floor

Willem Marius Floor (born 1942) is a Dutch historian, writer, and Iranologist. He was born in 1942 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. After finishing high school, he attended the University of Utrecht where he studied economics, non-Western sociology, and Islamic studies. He also studied Arabic and eventually became interested in Persian. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1971. The title of his PhD dissertation was "The Guilds In Qajar Persia."[1][2][3][4] Ever since, he has been engaged in Iranian studies. Throughout this time, he has published extensively on the socio-economic history of Iran.[5] As an independent scholar, Willem Floor has published numerous works of history as well as translations. Dr. Floor is also a winner of Farabi International Prize for Humanitarian Studies.[6][7]

  1. ^ Peterson, J. E. (2016). "Willem Floor: The Persian Gulf: Muscat: City, Society and Trade". Der Islam. 93 (1): 262–264. doi:10.1515/islam-2016-0018.
  2. ^ Pearson (1 January 1998). "WILLEM FLOOR, The Dutch East India Company (VOC) and Diewel-Sind (Pakistan) in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi, 1993. Pp. 97. Rs. 95.00/US$6.00". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 41 (2): 235. doi:10.1163/1568520982601296. ISSN 1568-5209.
  3. ^ "A Dutchman In Iran: From Utrecht To Bushehr". The Iranian. 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  4. ^ "willem floor - Academia.edu". independent.academia.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  5. ^ "Willem Floor". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  6. ^ "News - Farabi International Award". farabiaward.ir. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  7. ^ "Willem Floor - Iranian Persian Trade & Economics Books". Mage Publishers. Retrieved 6 February 2019.