Farshid Delshad (Persian: فرشید دلشاد) is an affiliated researcher, scholar of linguistics and Iranian Studies.

[2][3] Delshad's first PhD and academic thesis at Tbilisi State University in 2000 dealt with Comparative Linguistics and Caucasian Studies.

[4] Delshad received his postdoctoral from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany in Historical-Comparative Linguistics and his thesis was Philological Studies on Iranian and Semitic Loanwords in Classical Georgian.

Farshid Delshad has contributed to minority research,[9] namely religious[10] and ethnic populations in the Islamic World.

[13] He is the first Persian translator of the Knight in the Panther's Skin, a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustaveli.