William L. Hanaway

William L. Hanaway (1929-2018) was an American scholar and professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a president of the Association for Iranian Studies (2000). He was also a member of the Editorial Board of A History of Persian Literature and a consultant and contributor to the Encyclopœdia Iranica.

Bibliography

• Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order, 2012
• Reading Nastaliq: Persian and Urdu Hands from 1500 to the Present (English, Persian and Urdu Edition), 2007
• Studies in Pakistani Popular Culture, 1996

Awards

• Research Foundation Awards for “Analytical Description of the Tashkent Dialect of Uzbek” in 1992

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