M. Rahim Shayegan, Ph.D.
Musa Sabi Assistant Professor of Iranian
Office: 386 Humanities
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
310.825.4877 - phone
310.206.6456 - fax
shayegan@humnet.ucla.edu
EDUCATION
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D., March 2000, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITÄT, Göttingen, Germany
Ph.D. Candidate, 1991-1992, Seminar für Iranistik.
UNIVERSITÉ DE LA SORBONNE, Paris, France
M.A., 1990, Institut des Études Iraniennes.
ALBERTUS-MAGNUS-UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN, Cologne, Germany
B.A., 1988 , Philosophisches Seminar.
EXPERIENCE
Winter 2003 Visiting Professor of Iranian, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures,
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
2000-2004 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
EXPERIENCE
Books:
The Arsacid, Babylonian, and Hellenistic Antecedents of Early Sasanian Political
Ideology, forthcoming in 2005.
Muthos, Epos, and History in Ancient Iran, forthcoming in Myth and Poetics, edited
by Gregoey Nagy, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Sasanian Parthian and Middle Persian Inscriptions together with Commentary,
Glossary, and Concordances, in preparation.
Bardiya et Gaum.ta, forthcoming 2005.
Articles:
“The Evolution of the Concept of xwaday “God,” Acta Orientalia Academiae
Scientiarum Hungaricae, 51, no. 1-2 (1998): pp. 31-54.
“Approaches to the Study of Sasanian History,” in Paitimana: Essays in Iranian,
Indo-European, and Indian Studies in Honor of Hanns-Peter Schmidt, ed. S. Adhami
(Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 2003).
“Philostratus’s Heroikos and the Ideation of Late Severan Policy toward
Arsacid and
Sasanian Iran,” in Philostratus’s Heroikos: Religion and Cultural Identity
in the Third
Century C.E., edited by Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean and Ellen Bradshaw
Aitken,
Writings from the Greco-Roman World 6, Atlanta: Society of Biblical
Literature, 2004,
pp. 285-315.
“Hazarbed,” Encyclopædia Iranica (London) vol. 11, no. 6 (2003).
“Hormizd I,” Encyclopædia Iranica (London) vol. 11, no. 7 (2004).
“Sapur II,” forthcoming in Encyclopædia Iranica.
