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Richard Frye cremated in Boston

TEHRAN,June 24(MNA) – The body of American Orientalist Richard N. Frye, who had wished to be buried in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, was cremated in Boston on June 8. The family of Professor Frye finally decided to cremate his body after 73 days of waiting for Iran’s permission to bury the Orientalist in the country, his Iranian colleague Turaj Daryaii told on Monday. “I still don’t know what his family will do with the ashes,” he added. Frye, a professor emeritus of Iranian studies at Harvard University, died in Boston on March 27 at the age of 94, and in his last will he had expressed his wish to be buried next to the Zayanderud River in Isfahan. However, certain groups of people and a number of Iranian officials had raised objections to plans to bury Frye in Isfahan. Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had agreed to Frye’s request in September 2007. The American orientalists Arthur Pope and Phyllis Ackerman have already been buried in Isfahan. In addition, Ahmadinejad had donated a house in Isfahan to Frye in 2007. The house was to be converted into a museum after the death of the professor.

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