Florian Schwarz
Hon.-Prof. Dr. phil.Full Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2026
- Institute for Iranian Studies of the OAW, Director
- Direktor des Instituts für Iranistik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Orcid-ID:
0000-0001-6292-8160
Research Areas:
- Linguistics and Literature
- Iranian studies
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
- Societas Iranologica Europaea
Selected Prizes:
- Honorarproessur Universität Wien
- Islamic and South Asian Book Award of the American Numismatic Society
Selected Publications:
- “Land Behind Bukhara. Materials for a landscape history of the Bukhara Oasis in the long first millennium”, in: Rocco Rante / Florian Schwarz / Luigi Tronca: The Oasis of Bukhara, vol. 2, Leiden 2022, 60-144. DOI: 10.1163/9789004513662_004
- “The Sāmānid File: Embedding Genealogy in 16th-Century Bukhara”, in Jo-Ann Gross, Daniel Beben (eds.), Genealogical History of the Persianate World, London: I.B. Tauris
- Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen. XIVc Hurasan III: Balh und die Landschaften am oberen Oxus, Tübingen, Berlin 2002.
- “The Arab reception of Jāmī in the 16th and 17th centuries: al-Fawāˀid al-ḍiyāˀiyya and al-Durra al-fākhira”, in: Thibaud d’Hubert und Alexandre Papas (eds.): Abdurrahman Jami: A worldwide literature, Leiden 2019, 177-195. DOI: 10.1163/9789004386600_007.
- “Writing in the margins of empires: The Husaynabadi family of scholiasts in the Ottoman-Safavid borderlands”, in: Tobias Heinzelmann / Henning Sievert (eds.): Buchkultur im Nahen Osten des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Bern a.o. 2010, 151-198. ISBN 978-3-0343-0451-1