Touraj Daryaee

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Professor, History
School of Humanities
Director, Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture School of Humanities
Ph.D., UCLA, 1999, History
University of California, Irvine
History Department
200 Kreiger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Ancient and Medieval Iranian History, Iranian Languages and Literature, Zoroastrianism, Numismatics, World History
Academic Distinctions
Sasanian Persia, winner of British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 2010
Appointments
Bahari Senior Fellow, Oxford University 2014
École pratique des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales 2010
Visiting Professor UCLA, 2002, 2005
California State University Fullerton, 1999-2007
Research Abstract
Dr. Daryaee’s research has focused on ancient and early medieval history of Iran, specifically the Sasanian Empire. He has worked on Middle Persian literature, editing and translating several texts with commentary on geography, dinner speech, chess and backgammon. He is also interested in the history of Zoroastrianism in Late Antiquity and its encounter with Islam. He is the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan: The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies as well as the electronic journal, DABIR: Digital Archives of Brief Notes and Iran Review and Sasanika: Late Antique Near East Project. His articles have appeared both in English and Persian in Iranian Studies, Iran, Iranistik, Studia Iranica, Res Orientalis, Historia, Electrum, Indo-Iranian Journal, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Iranshenasi, Iran Nameh, Name-ye Baharestan, and Name-ye Iran-e Bastan.
Publications
Books

Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, I.B. Tauris, 2023 (expanded, second edition).

Food for gods, food for mortals. Culinary and dining practices in the greater Iranian world, co-edited with Sh. Farridnejad, UC I Persian Studies, 2022. (edited volume)

Iran and Its Histories. from the Beginnings Through the Achaemenid Empire, co-edited with R. Rollinger, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2021. (edited volume)

Institution of Persian Kingship in Ancient Iran, Abi Press, Tehran, 2021. (edited volume in Persian)

Dinars and Dirhams: Festschrift in Honor of Michael L. Bates, co-edited with J.A. Lerner & V.C. Rey, E.J. Brill, 2020. (edited volume)

Studi sulla Persia sasanide e suoi rapport con le civilta attigue, co-edited with M. Compareti, Paolo Emilio Persiani, Bologna, 2019. (edited volume)

Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity: The Bahari Lecture Series at the University of Oxford, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018 (edited volume).

Kings, Whores and Children: Passing Notes on Ancient Iran and the World That We Live In, Mehri Publishers, London, 2018.

Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018 (co-edited volume with Houri Berberian).

India and Iran in the Longue Durée, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2017 (edited volume).

The Parthian and Sasanian Empires: Adaptation and Expansion, eds. Sarkhosh Curtis, Alram, Daryaee, Pendleton, British Institute of Persian Studies, Oxbow Press, Oxford, 2016.

From Oxus to Euphrates: A History of Late Antique Iran, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UC Irvine, 2016 (co-written with Kh. Rezakhani).

King of the Seven Climes, UCI Jordan Center, 2017.

Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persian in Longue Durée, eds. T. Daryaee, A. Mousavi, Kh. Rezakhani, Mazda Publishers, 2014.

Cyrus the Great: An Ancient Iranian King, ed. T. Daryaee, Afshar Publishers, 2014.

Iranian Kingship, The Arab Conquest and Zoroastrian Apocalypse, Mumbai, 2012 (Governor Fellowship Lectures given in the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute)

The Oxford History of Iran, ed. T. Daryaee, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Nagoftehaye Khandan Sasan, Parseh Press, Tehran, 2012 (selected articles, most translated from English to Persian)

On the Explanation of Chess and Backgammon (Abar Wizarišn Catrang ud Nihišn i New-Ardaxšir), Afshar Press, Beverly Hills, 2011 (translation of a Middle Persian text).

Iranians on the Silk Road: Merchants, Kingdoms and Religions, T. Daryaee, Kh. Rezakhani and M. Compareti, Afshar Publishing, Beverly Hills, 2010 (Booklet).

Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, I.B. Tauris, London, 2009.
Winner of the British Society for Middle East Studies award in 2010.

Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE): Portrait of a Late Antique Empire, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, 2008.

Bibliographica Sasanika: Bibliographical Guide to the Sasanian Empire, vol. I Years 1990-1999, in collaboration with E. Venetis, M. Alinia, Mazda Publishers, 2009.

Scholars & Humanists: Iranian Studies in Henning and Taqizadeh Correspondences 1937-1966, in collaboration with I. Afshar, Mazda Publishers, 2009.

A Thematic Approach to World History, Harlan Davidson, 2 vol., 2008.

Šahanšahi-ye Sasani (The Sasanian Empire), Qoqnoos Publishers, Tehran, 2004.

The Spirit of Wisdom (Menog i Xrad), Essays in Memory of Ahmad Tafazzoli, eds. T. Daryaee and M. Omidsalar, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, 2004.

Tarikh va Tamaddun-e Sasani (Sasanian History and Civilization), Qoqnoos Publishers, Tehran, 1372.

Soghoot-e Sasaniyan (The Fall of the Sasanians), Nashr-e Tarikh-e Iran, Tehran, 1372. (in Persian; reprint 2005).

Šahrestaniha i Eranšahr, A Middle Persian Text on Late Antique Geography, Epic and History, Mazda Publishers, 2002. (in English).
Articles in European Languages
“Mazdak and Late Antique ‘Socialism’,” in The Cambridge History of Socialism, Vol. I, Cambridge UP, 2023, 39-55.

“Ardashir the Argbed: Sasanian economic resources and finances in the third century CE,” ANTIQUITÉ TARDIVE 30, 2022: 151-160.

“Alexander at Pasargadae and the Frawashi of Cyrus,” Alexander in Perspective, ed. R. Rollinger & J. Degan, Otto Harrassowitz, 2022: 357-367.

“In Search of Lost Time: The Fratarakas and teh Genealogy of the Sasanian Ancestry,” Sasanian Studies I, 2022: 41-56.

“The Bones of Khosrow: The Sacred Topography of Ctesiphon,” Electrum 29, 2022: 276-284.

“Eating and Drinking in Ancient Iran: A Survey” Food for Gods, Food for Mortals: Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World, eds. Sh. Farridnejad & T. Daryaee, UCI Jordan Center, Irvine, 2022: 11-50.

“Drink Dugh Like an Ancient Persian,” Food for Gods, Food for Mortals: Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World, eds. Sh. Farridnejad & T. Daryaee, UCI Jordan Center, Irvine, 2022: 67-76.

“The Scent of Musk and Jasmine: Trade in Aromatics between Iran and China,” in Khorasan Namak: Essays on the Archaeology, History and Architecture of Khorasan in Honour of Rajabali Labbaf-Khaniki, 2022: 67-74.

“Persia and Rome: The Historical and Ideological Gaze,” in Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, eds. by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole, Getty Press, 2022: 281-289.

“Eating meat: The sin of Zoroastrian primordial heroes and villains.” In Caseau, Béatrice and Hervé Monchot (eds.), Religion et interdits alimentaires. Archéozoologie et sources littéraires (Orient & Méditerranée 38), Leuven: Peeters, 2022: 237–242.

“Palmyra and the Sasanians in the Third Century,” in Palmyra and the East, eds. K. Lapatin & R. Raja, Berpols, 2022: 39-45.

“Armenia and Iran: The Birth of Two Nations in Late Antiquity,” Electurm 28, 2021: 59-67.

“Parsa and Uja,” A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, eds. B. Jacobs and R. Rollinger, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.

“Iran and Its Histories: Problems and Challenges,” Iran and its Histories. From the Beginnings through the Achaemenid Empire: Proceedings of the First and Second Payravi Lectures on Ancient Iranian History, UC Irvine, March 23rd, 2018, & March 11th-12th, 2019, eds. T. Daryaee & R. Rollinger, Series: Classica et Orientalia, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021: 1-17.

“Balkanization of Antiquity in Contemporary Iranian Memory,” Iran and its Histories. From the Beginnings through the Achaemenid Empire: Proceedings of the First and Second Payravi Lectures on Ancient Iranian History, UC Irvine, March 23rd, 2018, & March 11th-12th, 2019, eds. T. Daryaee & R. Rollinger, Series: Classica et Orientalia, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021: 31-44.

“Forgotten Happiness: A Look at Sadness in Ancient Persia,” Angah Magazine 15, 2021:44-47.

“Männerbund Aspects of Old Persian Anušiya-,” in Achemenet. Vingt ANS Apres: Etudes Offertes a Pierre Briant a l’Occasion Des Vingt ANS Du Programme Achemenet, eds, D. Agut-Labordère, R. Boucharlat, F. Joannès, A. Kuhrt, M.W. Stolper, Peeters, Luven, 2021: 471-478.

“Arsacid Economic Activity on the Silk Road,” Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives, eds. J.D. Lerner & Y. Shi, Oxbow, 2020, pp. 215-221.

“Holding the Empire Together: The Achaemenid Commonwealth Project,” Ancient History 20, 2019: 27-29.

“From Zoroastrian to Islamic Iran: A Note on the Christian Intermezzo,” Vicino Oriente 23, 2019, pp. 109-120. (Italy)

“Khosrow II in the Pahlavi Text Mah i Farwardin roz i Hordad,” Orpheus Noster 11, no. 4, 2019. (Hungary).

“The steppe and the Iranian world,” Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes, ed. S. Whitfield, Thames & Hudson, 2019, pp. 77-81. (UK)

“Great empires of the Silk Roads,” Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes, ed. S. Whitfield, Thames & Hudson, 2019, pp. 295-301. (UK)

“Honey: A Demonic Food in Zoroastrian Iran?,” Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2019, pp. 53-57. (Poland)

“On Forgetting Cyrus and Remebering the Achaemenids in Late Antique Iran,” Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore, ed. M.R. Shayegan, ILEX Foundation, 2019, pp. 221-231.

“The Sasanian Empire,” The Syriac World, ed. D. King, Routledge, 2019, pp. 33-43.

“Keresaspa’s Wet Dream,” Dabir 6, 2018, pp. 50-56.

“The Fall of Urartu and the Rise of Armenia,” Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography, eds. H. Berberian & T. Daryaee, UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018, pp. 29-36.

“The Tripartite Sasanian Vision of the World,” Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity: The Bahari Lecture Series at the University of Oxford, ed. T. Daryaee, 2018, pp. 67-76.

“The Iranian Männerbund Revisited,” Iran and the Caucasus, Volume 22, Issue 1, pages 38–49 (peer-reviewed).

T. Daryaee & Soodabeh Malekzadeh “Falcons and falconry in pre-modern Persia,” in Raptor and human - falconry and bird symbolism throughout the millennia on a global scale, eds. Karl-Heinz Gersmann & Oliver Grimm, Wachholtz Verlag, 2018, pp. 243-258 (invitation).

“Pahlavi Literature,” A Companion to Late Antique Literature, eds. S. McGill & E. Watts, Wiley-Blackwell, 2018, pp. 103-121(invitation).

“Alexander and Succession of Persian Empires,” in De Imperiis. L’idea di impero universale e la successione degli imperi nell’antichità, eds. di Cresci Lia Raffaella & Gazzano Francesca, L’ERMA di Bretschneider, 2018, pp. 207-2015 (peer-reviewed).

“Queen Denag at the Royal Investiture,” Hollyfest, 2018, http://www.thehollyfest.org/index.php/touraj-daryaee/.

“A Note on the ‘Great King of Armenia’,” Bridging Times and spaces Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian Studies Honouring Gregory E. Areshian on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Oxford, 2017, pp. 85-87.

“The Idea of the Sacred Land of Eranshahr” Persianism in Antiquity, ed. R. Strootman & M.J. Versluys, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017, pp. 393-399 (invitation).

“From Yima’s Wara to Jamshid’s Throne: Persepolis and the Impact of the Avestan Lore,” Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review, vol. 3, 2017, 1-6.

“Arabic and Persian Sources for Pre-Islamic Arabic,” Arabs and Empires before Islam, G. Fisher, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 434-467, co-authored with H. Munt, et. al.

Arabs and Empires before the Sixth Century,” in Arabs and Empires before Islam, G. Fisher, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 11-89, co-authored with. M.C.A. Macdonald, et. al.

“Abrupt climate variability since the last deglaciation based on a high-resolution, multi-proxy peat record from NW Iran: The hand that rocked the Cradle of Civilization?” (co-authored with A. Sharifi et al.) Quaternary Science Reviews Volume 123, 1 September 2015, Pages 215–230.

“Alexander and the Arsacids in the manuscript MU29,” DABIR, Vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, pp. 8-10.

Western and Central Eurasia 1200 BCE-900 CE,” in the Cambridge World History, ed. C. Benjamin, Cambridge, 2015, pp. 271-299.

“Zoroastrianism under Islamic Rule,” in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism, eds. M. Stausberg and Y. S.-D. Vevaina, 2015, pp. 103-118.

“Why Was Kartir Forgotten?” Iran Nameh, 30:2, Summer 2015, pp. 280-287.

“Rayy During the Sasanian Period based on Primary Sources,” Iran Nameh, 29:2, Summer 2014, pp. 36-48.

“The Performance of Pain and Remembrance in Late Antique Iran,” The Silk Road, Vol. 12, 2014, pp. 57-64.

“The Last Ruling Woman of Eranshahr: Queen Azarmigdux,” International Journal of the Society of Iranian Archaeologists, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2014, pp. 77-81.

“The Achaemenid Empire in the Context of World History (550-330 BCE),” in Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persia in Longue Duree, eds. T. Daryaee, A. Mousavi, Kh. Rezakhani, Mazda Publishers, 2014.

“Historiography in late antique Iran,” in Perceptions of Iran: History, Myths and Nationalism from Medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic, ed. Ali Ansari, IB Taruis, London, 2014, pp. 65-76.

“On the epithets of two Sasanian kings in the Mujmal al-tawarikh wa-l-qisas,” in Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran, Studies in Honour of Charles Melville, eds. R. Hillenbrand et. al., I.B. Tauris, 2013, pp. 11-14.

“Marriage, Property and Conversion among the Zoroastrians: From Late Sasanian to Islamic Iran,” Journal of Persianate Studies, vol. 6, 2013, pp. 91-100.

“Herodotus on Drinking Wine in the Achaemenid World: Greek and Persian Perceptions,” Iranian Languages and Culture. Essays in Honor of Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr, eds. B. Aghaei & M.R. Ghanoonparvar, Mazda Pub., 2012, pp. 338-43.

“On the Coming of a Zoroastrian Messiah: A Middle Persian Poem on History and Apocalypticism in Early Medieval Islamic Iran” Converging Zones: Persian Literary Tradition and the Writing of History, ed. W. Ahmadi, 2012.

Daryaee, T. & Mousavi, A. (2012) “The Sasanian Empire: An Archaeological Survey, c. 220-AD 640,” (With Ali Mousavi), Blackwell Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, ed. D.T. Potts, London & New Year, pp. 1076-1094.

“Food, Purity and Pollution: Zoroastrian Views on the Eating Habits of Others,” Iranian Studies, volume 45, number 2, March 2012, pp. 229-242.

“Inscribed Sasanian Bullae at the National Museum of Iran,” co-authored with D. Akbarzadeh, e-Sasaniak 19, 2012 (UCI) http://www.humanities.uci.edu/sasanika/pdf/e-sasanika-19-Akbarzadeh-Daryaee.pdf .

“Ardaxšir and the Sasanians’ Rise to Power,” Anabasis: Studia Classica et Orientalia, Vol. 1, 2010, pp. 236-255.

“To Learn and to Remember from Others: Persians Visiting the Dura-Europos Synagogue,” Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, Vol. 8, 2010, pp. 29-37.

“When the End is Near: Barbarized Armies and Barracks Kings of Late Antique Iran,” Ancient and Middle Iranian Studies. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Vienna, 18-22 September 2007, eds. M. Macuch, D. Weber, and D. Durkin-Meisterernst, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2010, pp. 43-52.

Bazaars, Merchants and Trade in Late Antique Iran,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, vol. 28, no. 3, 2010, pp. 401-409.

“The Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Arab Muslims: From Two Centuries of Silence to Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: the Partho-Sasanian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran,” Journal of Persianate Studies, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 239-254.

“The Idea of Eranšahr: Jewish, Christian and Manichaean Views in Late Antiquity,” Iranian Identity in the Course of History – Proceedings, ed. C. Cereti, Rome, 2010, pp. 91-108. (Italy).

“Spahbed Bullae: The Barakat Collection,” co-author with K.Safdari, e-Sasanika 12, 2010 (UCI): http://www.humanities.uci.edu/sasanika/pdf/e-sasanika12-Barkat%20Collection%20Final.pdf.

Ancient Iranian Studies in the 20th Century,” Iranian Studies, vol. 42, no. 4, 2009, pp. 579-589. (US)

“A Bulla of the Eran-Spahbed of Nemroz,” co-author with K. Safdari, e-Sasanika 8, 2009 (UCI): http://www.humanities.uci.edu/sasanika/pdf/e-sasanika8-dar-saf.pdf

“The Persian Gulf in Late Antiquity: The Sasanian Era (200-700 C.E.),” The Persian Gulf in History, ed. L.G. Potter, Palgrave, New York, 2009, pp. 57-70. (US)

Yazdgerd III’s Last Year: Coinage and History of Sistan at the End of Late Antiquity,” Iranistik: Deutschsprachige Zeitschrift fur iranistische Studien. Festschrift fur Erich Kettenhofen, eds. T. Daryaee & O. Tabibzadeh, 5. Jahrgang, Heft 1&2, 2006-2007(2009), pp. 21-30. (Iran)

“Kingship in Early Sasanian Iran,” The Sasanian Era: The Idea of Iran, vol. III, eds. V. Sarkhosh Curtis and S. Stewart, IB Tauris, London, 2008, pp. 60-70. (UK)

“Indo-European Elements in the Zoroastrian Apocalyptic Tradition,” Classical Bulletin, vol. 83, no. 2, 2007, pp. 203-213. (US)

“Imitatio Alexandri and Its Impact on Late Arsacid, Early Sasanian and Middle Persian Literature,” Electrum, vol. 12, 2007, pp. 89-97. (Poland)

“The Middle Persian Text Sur i Saxwan and the Late Sasanian Court,” Des Indo-Grecs aux Sassanides: donnees pour l’historie et la geographie historique, Res Orientales, vol. xvii, 2007, pp. 65-72. (France)

“The Construction of the Past in Late Antique Persia,” Historia, vol. 55, no. 4, 2006, pp. 493-503. (Germany)

“A Note on the Great Seal of King Peroz and Middle Persian nycny,” Indo-Iranian Journal, vol. 48, 2005, pp. 195-197. (Holland)

“The Art of wine in Ancient Persia,” Hamazor, Publication of the world Zoroastrian organization, vol. 1, 2006, 34-36. (Pakistan)

“Ethnic and Territorial Boundaries in Late Antique and Early Medieval Persia (Third to Tenth Century),” Borders, Barriers, and Ethnogenesis, Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages, ed. F. Curta, Brepols, Belgium, 2005, pp. 123-138.

“Sasanians and their Ancestors,” Societas Iranologica Europoea – Proceedings, ed. A. Panaino and A. Piras, vol. I, Milano, 2005, pp. 287-293.

“Two Recently Discovered Inscribed Sasanian Silver Bowls,” in collaboration with Judith Lerner and Daryoush Akbarzadeh, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, vol. 15, 2001 (2005), pp. 71-76.

“The ‘Bow of Rustam’ and the ‘Gleaming Armor’ of the Parthians: Notes on the Parthian Epic Ayadgar i Zareran,” Electrum, vol. 10, 2005, pp. 95-98.

“Notes on Early Sasanian Titulature,” Journal of the Society for Ancient Numismatics, Vol. 21, 2002(2005), pp. 41-44.

“H. Mahamedi,” Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, Vol.3, no. 2, 2003-2004.

“Das Uberleben eines sehr alten persischen Titels in Zentralasien,” Iranistik, Deutschprachige Zeitschrift fur iranistische Studien, vol. 3, no. 1, 2004, pp.41-48.

“Royal and Communal Views of Eranšahr in the Sassanian Period,” Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, Vol.3, no. 2, 2003-2004, pp. 11-27.

“History, Epic, and Numismatics: On the Title of Yazdgerd I (Ramšahr),” Journal of the American Numismatic Society, vol. 14, 2002(2003), pp. 89-95.

“The Effect of the Arab Muslim Conquest on the Administrative Division of Sasanian Persis / Fars,”Iran, The British Institute of Persian Studies, vol. xli, 2003, pp. 1-12.

“The Mazdean sect of Gayomartiya,” Ataš-e Dorun (The Fire Within, Jamshid Soroush Soroushian Memorial Volume, ed. C. Cereti, 2003, pp. 131-137.

“Gayomard: King of Clay or Mountain? The epithet of the First Man in the Zoroastrian Tradition,” Paitimana, Essays in Iranian, Indo-European, and Indian Studies in Honor of Hanns-Peter Schmidt, Mazda Press, 2003, pp. 339-349.

“The Persian Gulf Trade in Late Antiquity,” Journal of World History, vol. 14, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1-16.

“Mind, Body, and the Cosmos: Chess and Backgammon in Ancient Persia,” Iranian Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, 2002, pp. 281-312.

“The Coinage of Queen Boran and Its Significance for Late Sasanian Imperial Ideology,” Bulletin of the Asia Institute: Volume 13, 1999(2002), pp. 1-6.

“Sight, Semen, and the Brain: Ancient Persian Notions of Physiology in Old and Middle Iranian Texts,” The Journal of Indo-European Studies, vol. 30, nos. 1&2, 2002, pp. 1-26.

“The Changing ‘image of the World’: Geography and Imperial Propaganda in Ancient Persia,” Electrum, Studies in Ancient History, vol. 6, 2002, pp. 99-109.

“The Collapse of the Sasanian Power in Fars/Persis,” Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2002, pp. 3-18.

“Memory and History: The Construction of the Past in Late Antique Persia,” Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, , The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2002, pp. 1-14.

“Mansour Shaki (1918-2000),” Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2002, pp. iii-vi.

“Encyclopaedia Iranica,” The Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies, vol. 35, nos. 1-2, 2002, pp. 1-12.

“Kerdir’s Naqsh-e Rajab Inscription,” Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2001, pp. 3-10.

“Kave the Black-Smith: An Indo-Iranian Fashioner?,” Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik, Vol. 22, 1999(2001), pp. 9-21.

“Sources for the Economic History of Late Sasanian Fars,” Matériaux pour l’Histoire Économique du Monde Iranien, Studia Iranica Cahier 21, 1999(2000), pp. 131-148.

“Sasanian Persia (224-651 AD),” The Journal of Society for Iranian Studies, vol. 31, no. 3-4, 1998(2000), pp. 431-462.

“Middle Iranian Sources for the Study of Medieval Islamic History,” (MEM) The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalist, Vol. 10, No. 2, Oct. 1998, pp. 36-39.

“Apocalypse Now: Zoroastrian Reflection on the Early Islamic Centuries,” Medieval Encounters, Vol. 4, No. 3, Nov. 1998, pp. 188-202.

“The Use of Religio-Political Propaganda on Coins of Xusro II,” in The Journal of the American Numismatic Society, Vol. 7, November 1997, pp. 41-54.

“The Effect of Civil War on Mint Production in the Sasanian Empire,” in (ONS) Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 150, Autumn 1996, pp. 8-9.

“Zoroastrian Eschatology According to Middle Persian Texts,” in Critique and Vision, An Afghan Journal of Politics, Culture & History, Vol. 1, Spring 1995, pp.5-23.

“Keyanid History or National History? The Nature of Sasanian Zoroastrian Historiography,” The Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3&4, 1995, pp.121-145.

Articles in Persian
“Beyond the ‘Two Centuries of Silence’,” Bukhara, 2019, pp. 1-5. (Iran)

“On Pahlavi Psalm 122,” Shamisa Festschrift, Tehran, 2019, pp. 391-398. (Iran)

“Khusrow Parwez and Alexander the Great: An Episode of imitation Alexandri by a Sasanian King,” AfariNameh: Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honour of Mehdi Rahbar, Tehran, 2019, pp. 191-194.

“Parthian, Greek & Middle Persian: Hierarchy of Languages in the Early Sasanian in the Empire,” Arj-e Xrad: Dj. Khalegh-Motlagh Fest, ed. Aslani, Morvarid Publishers, Tehran, 1396, pp. 5-13.

“Ancient Iran and Edinburgh University Press,” Bukhara, vol. 119, 2017.

“You Are that,” Bukhara, vol. 124, 2018, pp. 216-218.

“Letters to Yazdangerd: An Introduction to the Pahlavi Papyri,” Fattollah Mojtabai Festschrift, ed. A.A. Sadeghi & A. Khatibi, Tehran, 2014, pp. 409-418.

“Sasanians Kingship, Empire and Glory: Aspects of Iranian Imperium,” Ranj-o-Ganj: Papers in Honour of Professor Z. Zarshenas, eds. V. Naddaf, F. Goshtasb, M. Shokri-Foumeshi, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies,Tehran,2013,pp.11-22.

“Who was Arash Shavatir?,” Bukhara, no. 95-96, 1392, pp. 167-176.

“A Contribution on Mithra’s Role in the Armenian, Iranian and the Roman World,” H. Mahamedi Memorial Volume, ed. K. Mazdapour, Tehran, 1390 (2011), pp. 96-103.

“Iranian Presence in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula,” (Persian article), Persian Gulf Studies, vol. 3, Tehran, 2011, pp. 107-116.

“Dar al-Fonun and the First Translation of the Gathas,” (Persian article) Bukhara, No. 80, 1389 (2010), pp. 202-208.

“Corrections in the History of Tabari based on the Pahlavi Bundahish,” (Persian article) Bukhara, Nos. 78-79, 1389 (2010), pp. 201-206.

“Zoroastrian-Muslim Intellectual Interaction in the 2nd and 3rd Century of Hijra,” (Persian article) Iranian Studies, Tehran, 2010, pp. 836-841.

“Some Observations on Middle Persian Zandig,” Feschrfit for Dr. Badr ol-Zaman Gharib, ed. Z. Zarshenas & V. Naddaf, Tahuri Publishers, Tehran, 2008, pp. 19-32. (Iran)

“Zanan dar dore-ye Hakhamaneši: Parehyi Molahezat-e Moghadamati,” The Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History, vol. 21/1, 2006- 2007 (published in March 2008), pp. 60-69. (Iran)

“Parsa va Pasargadae: Tarikh va Ustureh va Tarikh-e Parsiyan ghabl az Hakhamanešiyan,” The Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History, vols. 21-22, 2007-2008, pp. 50-59. (Iran)

“Noskhe-ye Pahlavi-ye MK,” Name-ye Baharestan, vols. 11/12, 1384-1385, pp. 365-270. (Iran)

“Ahamiyat-e Nahad-e Padešahi Seluki dar shekl-giri-ye Ideology Shahnashahi dar Iran-e Bastan, Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History, vol. 1, 2006 (2007): http://web3.ehost-services.com/hemranib/Archive1/Vol1March2006.pdf

“The Mysteries of the House of Sasan: When did Ardaxšir Rule over Istakhr?,” Bastanpazhouhi, vol. 2, no. 4, 2007, pp. 15-20. (Iran)

“List of Fruits and Nuts in the Zoroastrian Tradition: An Irano-Hellenic Classification,” Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, vols. 11/12, 2006-2007, pp. 1-10. (Iran)

“Two Notes on the Mythological Geography of Iranians,” Studia Persica, Sotudeh Nama, ed. I. Afshar, Tehran, 2005, vol. 15 pp. 345-349.

“The Middle Persian Inscription of Seluk at Persepolis,” Farhang: The Quarterly Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, vol. 17, nos. 49-50, 2004, pp. 47-53.

“Ardašir i Babakan and the Decapitated Heads at the Anahita Fire-Temple,” Iranshenasi, A Journal of Iranian Studies, vol. xvi, no. 4, winter 2005, pp. 659-662.

“The Sons and Grandsons’ of Yazdgird III in China,” Iranshenasi, A Journal of Iranian Studies, vol. xv, no. 3, autumn 2003, pp. 540-548.

“Some Notes on Religion and State During the Sasanian Period,” Sorush-e Moan, Jamšid Sorushian Memorial Volume, ed. K. Mazdapur, Tehran, 2002, pp. 167-177.

“The Inscription of Šabuhr Saganšah at Persepolis,” Farhang, Quarterly Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, vol. 14, nos. 37-38, summer 2001, pp. 107-114.

“Zed-e Zandiyun in the Sasanian and Early Islamic Period,” Ma’arif, vol. 18, no. 2, 2001, pp. 51-57.

“Notes on the Middle Persian Text, The Šahrestaniha i Eranšahr,” Iranshenasi, vol. Xii, no. 4, winter 2001, pp. 795-801.

“Trends in the Study of Ancient History in the United State and Europe,” Bukhara, vol. 3, no. 16, Jan-Feb. 2001, pp. 21-26.

“The Judge and Protector of the Needy during the Sasanian Period” Tafazzoli Memorial Volume, ed. A.A. Sadeghi, Tehran, 2001, pp. 179-187.

“The Pahlavi Title of Cihr az Yazdan and the Sassanian Kings,” Name-ye Farhangestan, The Quarterly Journal of Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Ser. No. 16), November 2000, pp. 28-32.

“Ahriman and Dews in Pahlavi texts,” Iranshenasi, A Journal of Iranian Studies, Vol. X, Spring 1998, pp. 124-126.

“Indo-European and Vedic Contributions to the Study of the Shahname: The Identity of Kave the Black-Smith,” Iranshenasi, A Journal of Iranian Studies, Vol. IX, No. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 279-284.

“The Wonders and Worthiness of Sistan,” in Iranshenasi, A Journal of Iranian Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 3, Autumn 1996, pp. 534-542.

Encyclopaedic Entries
“Schmidt, Hanns-Peter,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater, 2017, http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/schmidt-hanns-peter.

Entries for Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, eds, O. Nicholson, OUP, 2018:
Ardashir I [Persian Shah]; 2) Ardashir III [Persian Shah]; 3) Bahram II; Bahram IV; 4) Bahram V Gur; 5) Boran; 6) cavalry; 7) Persian; 8) Chess; 9) Dadistan-i Denig; dehqan;
10) Denkard; 11) Eranshahr; 12) Geographical texts; 13) Persian historiography; 14) Hormizd I Ardashir (Persian shah); 15) Hormizd III (Persian shah); 16) Hormizd IV (Persian shah); 17) initiation, Zoroastrian; 18) Khosrow I Anoshirvan; 19) Khosrow II Aparwez; 20) Khosrow III; 21) Mazdak and Mazdakism; 22) Menog-e Xrad; 23) Papag; 24) papyri, Pahlavi; 25) Persia, economic history of;26) Persian literature; 27) philosophical texts, Persian; 28) poetry and poets, Middle Iranian; 29) Qobad I ; 30) Religious Debate at the Sasanian Court; 31) Res Gestae Divi Saporis; 32) Sasanian dynasty; 33) Shahryar; 34) Shapur II ; 35) Shapur III; 36) Sheyist ne Sheyist / Sayist ne Sayist; 37) taxation, Persian; 38) translation, Persian; 39) Yazdegerd II ; 40) Yazdegerd III (by invitation).

“Mehr-Narseh,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater, 2012.

“Zaduya,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater, 2012.

“Zurwandad,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater, 2012.

“Abarqubadh,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill, 2011.

“Abarquh,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill, 2011.

“Abarshahr,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill, 2011.

“Shapur II,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater, 2009.

“Chess,” Medieval Islamic Civilization, ed. J.W. Meri, vol. 1, Routledge, 2006, pp. 148-149.

“Backgammon,” Medieval Islamic Civilization, ed. J.W. Meri, vol. 1, Routledge, 2006, pp. 88-90.

“Jarrah / Jarrahi: Pre-Islamic” Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam, vol. 9, Tehran, 2005, pp. 790-791.

“Sasanian Empire,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, eds. W.H. McNeil, Massachusetts, 2005, pp. 1659-1663.

“Persian Empire,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, eds. W.H. McNeil, Massachusetts, 2005, pp. 1462-1465.

“Zoroastrianism,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, eds. W.H. McNeil, Massachusetts, 2005, pp. 2120-2121.

“Cyrus the Great,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, eds. W.H. McNeil, Massachusetts, 2005, pp. 472-473.

“The Persians,” Encyclopedia of Weapons and Warfare, eds. J. Powell, Salem Press, 2001, pp. 165-170.

“Persia,” Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, ed. T.J. Sienkewicz, Salem Press, 2001, pp. 882-886.

“Avesta,” Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, ed. T.J. Sienkewicz, Salem Press, 2001.

“Ardashir I,” Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, ed. T.J. Sienkewicz, Salem Press, 2001.

Internet Articles
"On Swearing to Mithra in the Armenian and Iranian World in Late Antiquity," Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History www.iranancienthistory.com, vol. 4, March 2008.

"Parsa and Pasargadae: Persian Myth and History before the Achaemenids," Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History www.iranancienthistory.com, vol. 2, September 2006.

"The Importance of Seleucid Kingship on Iranian Imperial Ideology," Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History www.iranancienthistory.com, vol. 1, March 2006.
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