Professor Nora Elizabeth Mary Boyce (2 August 1920 - 4 April 2006) was the world's leading doyenne of Zoroastrian studies and Iranology. She was Professor Emerita of Iranian studies at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She received her Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge in 1952 and has written numerous books and articles on Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Middle Iranian languages and literatures.

Writings

• Zoroastrianism, Its Antiquity and Constant Vigour, Fourth Columbia series on Iranian Studies, 1992
• Zoroastrianism: A Shadowy but Powerful Presence in the Judaeo-Christian World, London, 1987
• Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, Routledge, London, 1979; repr. 2000 ^*
• A History of Zoroastrianism, 3 vols. 1975-91, vol. 3 with Frantz Grenet. Vol. 4 forthcoming. Vols. 5-7 under the editorship of Albert de Jong.
• A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism, 1977; repr. 1989
• The Letter of Tansar, ed. and tr. 1968
• The Manichaean hymn-cycles in Parthian, 1954

See also

• Iranology
• James R. Russell

Iranologists