M. Rahim Shayegan, Ph.D.

Musa Sabi Chair of Iranian, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA.

2000–2002/2003–2004

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
PhD, 2000, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Fields: Iranian Philology, Ancient History.
Thesis: “Aspects of Early Sasanian History and Historiography.

Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
Ph.D. Candidate, 1991-1992, Seminar für Iranistik.
Fields: Iranian Philology.

Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
M.A., 1990, Institut des Études Iraniennes.
Fields: Iranian Philology, Ancient History.
Thesis: “Bardiya, Gaumāta et la politisation du sacerdoce au VI^e s. av. J.-C.”

Albertus-Magnus-Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany
B.A., 1988 , Philosophisches Seminar.
Fields: Philosophy, Comparative Philology, History.
Thesis: “Die wesentlichen Bestimmungen der Substanz und des phänomenalen Seins in Leibnizens Monadologie.”

• 2010-Department of Classics, Stanford
“On Roman and Sasanian Ideological Exchanges in the Third and Fourth Centuries CE”

• 2009-Writing Down Myths: The Construction of Mythology in Classical and Medieval Traditions, UCLA
“The Evil Brothers in Iranian History and Epic Tradition”

• 2008-The Presence of Iran in the Ancient World, UCI
“Early Arsacid Hostage Policy”

• 2008-Department of Classics, USC
“Sasanian Epigraphy and the res gestae divi Saporis”

• 2007-The Talmud in Its Iranian Context, UCLA
“The Stakes for Iranian Studies”

• 2007-Images and Lives of Women in Ancient Iran, Cal State Fullerton
“On Obscure Queens of the Arsacid Age”

• 2007-The Idea of Iran: The Late Sasanian Period, SOAS/BM, London
“The Roman Wars of Šābuhr II The Great”

• 2006-The World of Ancient Persia: Achaemenid Archaeology, History, and Religion, Cal State Fullerton
“Bardiya and Gaumāta and the Issue of Succession in the Early Achaemenid Empire”

• 2006-Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies, SOAS, London
“Indupāne and Saxt: Two Iranian Satraps in Late Hellenistic, and Early Arsacid, Iran”

• Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Recipient of the Ehsan Yarshater Book Award 2012

• Ed. The Talmud in Its Iranian Context. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 135, ser. eds. Peter Schäfer, Annette Y. Reed, Seth Schwartz, and Azzan Yadin. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. Co-edited with Carol Bakhos.

• “Prosopographical Notes: The Iranian Nobility during and after the Macedonian Conquest.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 21 (2007 [2012]): 97–126.

• “Bardiya and Gaumāta: An Achaemenid Enigma Reconsidered.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 20 (2006 [2010]): 65–76.

• “Nugae Epigraphicae.” In Festschrift for Prods Oktor Skjærvø. Edited by Nicholas and Ursula Sims-Williams. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 19. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Bulletin of the Asia Institute (2005 [2009]): 169–179.

• “On the Rationale behind the Roman Wars of Šābuhr II the Great.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 18 (2004 [2008]): 111–133.

• “On Demetrius II Nicator’s Arsacid Captivity and Second Rule.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 17 (2003 [2007]): 83–103.

• “On the Function of the (h)argbed in Sasanian Iran.” In Ahmad Tafazzoli: A Commemorative. Iran Nameh: A Persian Journal of Iranian Studies, 17:2. Bethesda, MD: Foundation for Iranian Studies, 1999, 287–290.

• “The Evolution of the Concept of xwadāy in Middle Persian.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 51: 1-2 (1998): 31–54.

Chapters in Book:

• “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 Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean. Writings of the Greco-Roman World, Number 6, ser. ed. John T. Fitzgerald. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004, 285–315.

• “Approaches to the Study of Sasanian History.” In Paitimāna: Essays in Iranian, Indo-European, and Indian Studies in Honor of Hanns-Peter Schmidt. Edited by S. Adhami. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 2003, 363–384.

• “Sasanian Royal Ideology.” In Handbook of Iranian Archaeology. Edited by D. T. Potts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

• “Hormizd I.” Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. 12, no. 5 (2004): 462–464.

• “Hazārbed.” Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. 12, no. 1 (2003): 93–95.

• Macuch, Maria. Rechtskasuistik and Gerichtspraxis zu Beginn des siebenten Jahrhunderts in Iran: Die Rechtssammlung des Farroẖmard i Wahrāmān. Edited by Maria Macuch. Iranica, Band 1. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1993, xiv, 807 S. In Orientalische Literaturzeitung 93 (1998): 230–234.

• Wiesehöfer, Josef. Ancient Persia. London: I. B. Tauris, 1996. In Iranian Studies 33: 1-2 (2000): 238–240.

• Cantera, Alberto. Studien zur Pahlavi Übersetzung des Avesta. Edited by Maria Macuch. Iranica, Band 7. In Journal of the American Oriental Society 131:3 (2011): 504–506.

• Tafazzoli, Ahmad. Sasanian Society: I. Warriors; II. Scribes; III. Dehqāns. Ehsan Yarshater Distinguished Lectures in Iranian Studies, No. 1. New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000. In Journal of the American Oriental Society 132:1 (2012): 124–125.