Honorary Members
An Honorary Member is the highest recognition that AIS as a professional association can bestow on the most distinguished scholars in our field.
Late Honorary Members
- Iraj Afshar (Tehran University) (1925-2011)
- Richard N. Frye (Harvard University) (1920-2014)
- Oleg Grabar (Princeton University) (1929-2011)
- Ann Lambton (SOAS, University of London) (1912-2008)
- Eugen Wirth (Institut für Geographie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) (1925-2012)
- Ehsan Yarshater (Columbia University (1920-2018)
- Gilbert Lazard (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (1920-2018)
Life Members
- Janet Afary
- Nader Ahari
- Kamran Aghaie
- Shahrough Akhavi
- Mehrdad Amanat
- Hossein Amir Saleh
- Said Ansari
- Jere Bacharach
- Ahmad Ashraf
- Ali Banuazizi
- Najmieh Batmanglij
- Mehrzad Boroujerdi
- Houchang Chehabi
- Olga Davidson
- Layla Diba
- Kambiz Eslami
- Richard N. Frye (Deceased)
- Farhad Hakimzadeh
- William Hanaway (Deceased)
- Brad Hanson
- Robert Hutchinson
- Farhad Kazemi
- Nikki Keddie
- Hassan Khosrowshahi
- Habib Ladjevardi
- Masahi Mizuta
- Roy Mottahedeh
- Fereydoun Moqtaderi
- Eden Naby
- Guity Nashat
- Vahid Noshirvani
- John Perry
- R. K. Ramazani (Deceased)
- David Rockefeller (Deceased)
- Aboalala Soudavar
- Hosseinali Soudavar
- Kazuo Takahashi
- Kamran Talattof
- R. Tehrani
- Kenji Tomita
- Xiyue Wang
- Richard Wolf
- Takeshi Yoshii
- Marvin Zonis
