Roger Mervyn Savory (27 January 1925 – 16 February 2022) was a British-born Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto[1] who was an Iranologist and specialist on the Safavids.
His numerous writings on Safavid political, military history, administration, bureaucracy, and diplomacy-translated into several languages have had a great impact in understanding this period.
[2] Savory was first introduced to Iranian studies as a young man between 1943 and 1947.
[1] He started his formal education in Oxford under Professors Hamilton Gibb, Joseph Schacht and Richard Walzer.
He then joined the faculty of University of Toronto and was a major factor in establishing the University of Toronto as one of the forerunners of Middle Eastern and Iranian studies in North America.