Touraj Daryaee
Touraj Daryaee is the Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World and the Associate Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He is the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan: The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies and the creator of Sasanika: The Late Antique Near East Project.
Featured Book
Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
The Sasanians were the last of the ancient Persian dynasties, and the largest empire to espouse Zoroastrianism, before the encounter with the Arabs swept away the pre-Islamic institutions. Using new sources, Touraj Daryaee provides a portrait of the empire’s often neglected social history, exploring the development of political and administrative institutions from foundation by Ardashir I to the last king, Yasdegerd III, and the attempts of his descendants to reestablish a second state for almost a century after.
Featured Project
Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān: The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies
When the first volume came out, I was attacked by various political and semi-political groups for starting a journal. They did not care that this journal was a place of exchange of ideas between the students in Iran who are not able to afford European and American journals dedicated to this field. They did not care that this was the first academic style journal in Iran dedicated to ancient Iran which finally was run by the experts in the field.
Latest Blog Posts
- The Psalms in Judeo-Persian - July 29, 2011
- The Gathas of Zarathushtra: Gathica I - April 02, 2011
- The Movie Iranium & the Israeli War Propaganda - February 17, 2011
- The End of Late Antiquity & Thomas Sizgorich - January 29, 2011
- Photo - September 02, 2010
- A Week with the Zoroastrian Parsis in Mumbai - September 02, 2010
- On the Earliest Reference to Stoning in Iran - August 02, 2010
- دکلمه و آهنگ شب است و چهره میهن سیاهه - March 05, 2010
Persian Artifacts
Pahlavi Writing
