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Afghanistan Studies @ BU
American Institute of Afghanistan Studies
With a US office on Bay State Road, the AIAS is a private, non-profit organization run by scholars with the aim of promoting and encouraging the systematic study of the culture, society, land, languages, health, peoples and history of Afghanistan. AIAS is especially concerned with increasing the numbers of scholars in the US who have expertise in, and understanding of Afghanistan, and to assist in the rebuilding of academic institutions and the advanced study of Afghanistan by Afghan scholars.
The Islamic Rare Book Collections, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
The book collections of these five scholars combine to create a strong holding of most fields of Islamic culture and science of Central Asia and, to a lesser degree, the Middle East, especially Iran and Turkey. Texts, both primary and secondary, are in the Arabic, Iranian, and Turkic languages. These collections were acquired by Boston University to provide sources for research by scholars and students in these fields.
