Yann Richard, professor emeritus at the Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris) has published books and articles on religion and political history of modern Iran, among them LâIran au 20ème siècle (Flammarion, 2009) and the memoirs of C.J. Edmonds, East and West of Zagros(Brill, 2010)
Historians of modern Middle East after the end of the World War 1, scholars dealing with Iranian society and political life at the beginning of the 20th Century.