Prof. Dr. Shervin Farridnejad

Habilitation Project

• Habilitation project (2016-2022): Zoroastrian religious literature in Classical New Persian and Gujarati: A critical study of their emergence, continuity and content along with an annotated edition of Ṣad Dar "Hundred Chapter / Gates (a Classical New Persian catechism in several pros and verse versions)". 

Research Plan

• Zoroastrian New Persian Revāyāt. A philological-religious study on the tradition of Zoroastrian literature in the New Persian language. The primary focus is to provide an annotated edition of both the individual and collective Persian Revāyāt. Furthermore, the project aims to present a religious-historical investigation of the Zoroastrian rituals and customs in the early modern period. (in preparation)

Previous Research Projects

• 2015: Research project “Religious Authority in Zoroastrianism and the Question of Succession: textual authority versus priestly authority” within the framework of the research group B-5-1: The personal authorization of knowledge in ancient succession narratives in the excellence cluster 264 – Topoi (The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations) 
• 11.2014 – 04.2015: Research project “Paradiesvorstellung im Zoroastrismus: eine religionshistorische Untersuchung” at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.

Monographs

• Die Sprache der Bilder: Eine Studie zur ikonographischen Exegese der anthropomorphen Götterbilder im Zoroastrismus. Iranica 27. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018.
• Zoroastrianism. A Quick Reference on Selected Theological and Historical Key-Concepts. New York: Facts on File, 2016.
• together with Ghelichkhani, Hamid Reza. A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts. Handbook of Oriental Studies (HdO) 109. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Editorial Works (Books)

• together with Touraj Daryaee, eds. Food for Gods, Food for Mortals. Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World. ČISTĀ. Studies in the History, Cultures and Religions of the Iranian World 1. Irvine, CA: University of Californoa, Irvine, 2022.
• Zaraθuštrōtǝma: Zoroastrian and Iranian Studies in Honour of Philip G. Kreyenbroek. Ancient Iranian Series 10. Irvine, CA: Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, University of California, Irvine, 2020.
• together with A. Joisten-Pruschke, and R. Gyselen, eds. Faszination Iran. Beiträge zur Religion, Geschichte und Kunst des Alten Iran. Gedenkschrift für Klaus Schippmann. Göttinger Orientforschungen. III. Reihe: Iranica, Neue Folge 13. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015.
• The Avestan Manuscript 4060 (RSPA230), Videvdad Iranian Sade of the British Library. Avestan Digital Archive Series 75. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 2014.

Editorial Works (Peer-reviewed Journals and Book Series)

• The peer-reviewed journal Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review (DABIR) Publication regularly since 2015 (three issue per annum) by the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine.
• The peer-reviewed edited volumes Sasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World | Sasanidische Studien: Spätantike iranische Welt, published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.
• The series  Ancient Iran Series (AIS). Publication since 2016, initially by the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine and since 2020 by E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill/Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden).

Papers and Contributions to Books

• together with Negar Habibi. „The Sacred King in the Shah Tahmasp Shahnama: The Tree as a Generative Idea of the “Idea of Kingship”“. Manazir Journal 5 (2023): 100–124.
• ‘The Zoroastrian Twelve Imams and the Fourteen Infallibles: Islamic Theological Terminology in Zoroastrian New Persian Literature (Zoroastrian Literature in New Persian III)’. In The Reward of the Righteous. Festschrift in Honour of Almut Hintze, edited by Alberto Cantera, Maria Macuch, and Nicholas Sims-Williams, 157–75. Iranica 29. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022.
• ‘“Under the Banner of the Mane.” Pahlavi Letters and the Sasanian Art of Epistolography. An Unpublished Pahlavi Papyrus Letter from Sasanian Egypt, P.Pehl. 569’. In Sasanian Studies. Late Antique Iranian World, 1:57–79. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022.
• ‘The Banquet for the Gods: Sacrificial Meat and Bread as the Main Ritual Foods in Zoroastrian Liturgies’. In Food for Gods, Food for Mortals. Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World, Ed. by Shervin Farridnejad and Touraj Daryaee, 59–114. ČISTĀ. Studies in the History, Cultures and Religions of the Iranian World. Irvine, CA: University of Irvine, 2022.
• together with Touraj Daryaee. ‘Eating and Drinking in Ancient Iran: A Survey’. In Food for Gods, Food for Mortals. Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World, edited by Shervin Farridnejad and Touraj Daryaee, 11–49. ČISTĀ. Studies in the History, Cultures and Religions of the Iranian World. Irvine, CA: University of Irvine, 2022.
• ‘Demonic Gifts and Counter-Gifts in Ancient Zoroastrianism’. In The Dangers of Gifts from Antiquity to the Digital Age, edited by Tudor Sala. Studies in Cultural History 120. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022.
• ‘The Jewish Ḥāfeẓ: Classical New Persian Literature in the Judeo-Persian Garšūni Literary Tradition’. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 31, no. 3 (Festschrift François de Blois) (2021): 515–34.
• ‘The Royal Farmān and the Abolition of Zoroastrian Poll Tax in Qajar Iran’. Himalayan and Central Asian Studies 25, no. 1–3 (2021): 105–31.
• Zoroastrian Iconography at the Seleucid, Arsacid and Sasanian Periods, 333 BC to 640 AD’. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, edited by Daniel T Potts, Ethan Harkness, Jason Neelis, and Roderick J McIntosh. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
• ‘Anahita at the Achaemenid Period’. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, edited by Daniel T Potts, Ethan Harkness, Jason Neelis, and Roderick J McIntosh. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
• ‘Cow Sacrifice and the Hataria’s Dedicatory Inscription at the Zoroastrian Shrine of Bānū-Pārs’. The Digital Archive of Brief Notes & Iran Review (DABIR) 7 (2020): 101–11.
• ‘Zoroastrian Pilgrimage Songs and Ziyārat-Nāmes (“Visitation Supplications”). Zoroastrian Literature in New Persian II’. In Zaraθuštrōtǝma. Zoroastrian and Iranian Studies in Honour of Philip G. Kreyenbroek, edited by Shervin Farridnejad, 115–92. Ancient Iranian Series 10. Irvine, CA: Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, University of California, Irvine, 2020.
• ‘The Iconography of Zoroastrian Angelology in Sassanian Art and Architecture’. In Spirits in Transcultural Skies, Auspicious and Protective Spirits in Artefacts and Architecture Between East and West, Ed. by Katharina Weiler and Niels Gutschow, 19–41. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Zürich: Springer Verlag, 2015.
• ‘Das Zoroastrische Schlangenbuch „Mār-Nāme“. Zur zoroastrischen Volksreligion und Ophiomantik’. In Faszination Iran Beiträge zur Religion, Geschichte und Kunst des Alten Iran. Gedenkschrift für Klaus Schippmann, Ed. by Shervin Farridnejad, Rika Gyselen, & Anke Joisten-Pruschke, 51–86. Iranica, GOF III/NF 12. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015.
• ‘Take Care of the Xrafstars! A Note on Nēr. 7.5’. The Digital Archive of Brief Notes & Iran Review (DABIR) 1 (2015): 11–13.
• ‘Die Diadochen Zaraθuštras: Sukzession und Religiöse Wissensvermittlung im Zoroastrismus’. In Sukzession in Religionen. Autorisierung, Legitimierung, Wissenstransfer. Ein Handbuch, edited by Almut-Barbara Renger and Markus Witte, 133–58. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2017.

Reviews

• ‘Review of Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. By Touraj Daryaee (New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2009. Pp. xxvi, 225)’. Iran Nameh 27, no. 2–3 (2012): 276–83.
• ‘Persepolis & Political Economy in Ancient Persia. A Review of Persepolis in Context: A Landscape Study of Political Economy in Ancient Persia, by Tobin Montgomery Hartnell; University of Chicago. 2012’. Dissertation Reviews, 2013, Online Resource.
• ‘Review of Timuş, Mihaela. 2015. Cosmogonie et Eschatologie: Articulations Conceptuelles Du Système Religieux Zoroastrien. (Cahiers de Studia Iranica 54). Paris: Peeters Press. 288 Pp., €30.00, ISBN 978-2-910640-40-8.’ The Digital Archive of Brief Notes & Iran Review (DABIR) 2 (2016).
• ‘Review of Mayrhofer, Manfred: Einiges Zu Den Skythen, Ihrer Sprache, Ihrem Nachleben. Wien: Verlag Der Österreichischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften 2006. 48 S. 8° = Phiosophisch-Historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte, 742 ; Veröffentlichungen Zur Iranistik, 36. Kart. € 15.20. ISBN 978-3-7001-3731-3.’ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (OLZ) 111, no. 6 (2016): 515–17.
• ‘Review of Mendoza Forrest, Satnam K. Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers: The Concept of Evil in Early Iran. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012.’ The Digital Archive of Brief Notes & Iran Review (DABIR) 4, no. 1 (2017): 86–90.
• 'Review of Cantera, Alberto, Ed. The Transmission of the Avesta. Iranica 20. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012.’ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (OLZ) 113, Nr. 4–5 (2019): 385–389.
• ‘From Khorasan to Bombay: Deeds and Works of a Zoroastrian High Priest [Review of Kotwal, Firoze M. The Collected Scholarly Writings of Dastur Firoze M. Kotwal. Edited by Firoza Punthakey Mistree and Cashmira Vatcha Bengalli. Mumbai: Parzor Foundation, 2018]’. Jam-e-Jamshed Weekly, 11 August 2019: 25–27.
• ‘Review of Goštāsb, Farzāne. Āẕar Kayvān: Zendegināme, Ās̱ār-o ʿaqāyed [Āẕar Kayvān: An Account of His Life, Writings and Beliefs]. Pažuhešgāh-e ʿolūm-e Ensānī-o Moṭāleʿāt-e Farhangī, 1400 š [2021]’. Iranian Studies 55, no. 3 (2022): 829.

In Preparation / Press

• The four Ṣad Dars — An annotated edition and translation of the Zoroastrian manuals of religious lore and customs.
• A Chrestomathy of Judeo-Persian Literature: Selected texts from the 8th to the 19th century CE.
  The Persian Rivāyat of Dārāb Hormazyār (Preliminary Studies: Text and Translation)
• ‘Death and Destruction: Zoroastrians during Turco-Mongol Invasions and in the Aftermath’. In Central Asiatic Journal, eds. Francesca Fiaschetti and Bruno De Nicola. Special Issue: The Mongols and Religions 62. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
• ‘Fire Temples in the Seleucid, Arsacid and Sasanian Periods’. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, eds. Daniel T Potts, Ethan Harkness, Jason Neelis and Roderick J McIntosh. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
• ‘Zoroastrian Iconography at the Seleucid, Arsacid and Sasanian Periods, 333 BC to 640 AD’. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, eds. Daniel T Potts, Ethan Harkness, Jason Neelis and Roderick J McIntosh. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
• ‘Anahita at the Achaemenid Period’. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, eds. Daniel T Potts, Ethan Harkness, Jason Neelis and Roderick J McIntosh. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

Selected Publications in Persian

• ‘The Image of Horse and Horseman on the Sasanian Gold and Silver Vessels’. Monthly Book of Arts 89/90 (2005): 148–54.
  ‘The Myth of Script in Ancient Iran’. Edited by Reza Abedini. Dabire, Journal of Persian Type and Language, 2009, 22–27.
• 'Mary Boyce's "A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism" and its importance for the Study of Zoroastrianism (Introduction into the Persian Translation)', in: Persian Translation of: Mary Boyce, A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism. Based on the Ratanbai Katrak Lectures, 1975 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977). Tehran, Toos: 2019, 7-13.

• 2023 “Sphere of Mixture”: Zoroastrian Astrology and the Priestly Tradition after the Mongol Conquest of Iran", The Ninth Biennial Convention of the ASPS, Yerevan, Armenia 30 May - 3 June 2023.
• 2023 "Miϑra, the Lord of Rituals", Nastaran Akhavan Symposium on Iranian Religions: “Mithra, ‘Lord of All Lands’”, University of California, Irvine, Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture April 17, 2023.
• 2023 "Empire of the Zoroastrians: Entanglement of Religions in Sasanian Iran", Fifth Payravi Cconference, Contextualizing Iranian History: The Sasanians (ca. 224-650 CE) – Aspects – Tendencies – Trajectories, University of California, Irvine, Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture March 27-28, 2023.
• 2023 „Die Verehrung der Götter: Präsenz und Bedeutung der Rituale im Zoroastrismus“, University of Hamburg in coorporaion with the Deutsch-Iranischen Gesellschaft in Norddeutschland e.V. , Hamburg, January 12, 2022.
• 2023 "Patterns of Zoroastrian Manuscript Exchange between Iran and India", in: “Cultural Heritage and the History of Exchange in Asia” Cutting-Edge International Research Unit Workshop Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg University in collaboration with Nagoya University (名古屋市立大学). January 11, 2023 [シェルウィン・ファリドネジャド、「イラン・インド間におけるゾロアスター教写本交流のパターンについて」]
• 2022 [together with Ariane Sadjed] “Literary and Anthropological Perspectives on Judeo-Persian Wedding Songs”, in: Judeo-Persian Literature Conference, Cornell University, New York, December 6-7, 2022.
• 2022 “Theologia Symbolica”: Dream, Allegory, and Imagining the Afterlife in Sasanian Art and Ideology, in: The International Conference The Sasanians in Context: Art, History, and Archaeology, Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, October 21–22, 2022.
• 2022 "Zoroastrian Rituals in Context of the Persian Zoroastrian Revāyāt", in: The 3rd Biennial Symposium on Ancient Iranian Languages and Culture, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, 24-25 January 2022 2022.
• 2021 „The Bible in The Judeo-Persian Tradition“, in: Mediating Scripture: Judeo-Persian Tobit as Global Crossroads, NYU Abu Dhabi in collaboration with Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Louvre Abu Dhabi, December 8-9, 2021
• 2021 „Zoroastrian Priests at the Court of Karīm Khan Zand: An 18th Century Parsi Travelogue from Surat to Yazd“, in: Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th - 20th Centuries), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna and the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, September 27 - 30, 2021.
• 2021 "The Jewish Ḥāfeẓ: Jewish Ṣūfīs and the Mystic Classical Persian Poetry", in International Workshop "Narratives of Being Jewish in the Middle East",Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 3–4 May 2021.
• 2019 "Persian Zoroastrian Revāyāt and the knowledge of Rituals of late medieval and pre-modern Zoroastrianism", in: the 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS), 9 - 13 September 2019, Institut für Iranistik, Freie Universität Berlin.
• 2019 "Persian Paleography: A Millennium of Writing in Various Orthographic Traditions", in International Summer School: Cultures of Documentation in Persianate Eurasia (15th-19th Centuries), Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2–7 June 2019.
• 2019 “Death and Destruction: Zoroastrians during Turco-Mongol Invasions and in the Aftermath", in International Conference: The Mongols and Religions, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 16–17 May 2019.
• 2018 "The Language Ecology of Zoroastrians: Classical New Persian Revāyāt/Rivāyāt as a source for the manuscript and knowledge transmission of late medieval and pre-modern Zoroastrianism", in International Workshop: Beyond Printed Sources: Medieval Manuscripts as Evidence for the History of the Persianate World, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 10–11 July 2018.
• 2017 “Continued Existence of the Imagery Repertoire of Sasanian Court Ceremonies and Rituals in the Islamic Art”, in the international conference "Sasanian Elements in Byzantine, Caucasian and Islamic Art and Culture”, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM), Mainz October 18–20, 2017.
• 2017 “Hārūt and Mārūt vs. Hauruuatāt and Amərətāt: Some Considerations about Their Origin and Myth”, within the panel “Quran and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective” with the theme: “The Angels Harut and Marut in Islamic Tradition” in the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Berlin, August 7-11, 2017.
• 2017 “Judeo-Persian Miniature Painting and Illustrated Manuscripts from late 17th to early 20th centuries (Late Safavid and Qajar Period)” in 2. Iranistik-Forum: Kunst, Kultur, Literatur & Gesellschaft im Iran während der Qadscharen-Dynastie, 30th June to 2nd July 2017; Cultural Department of the Embassy of the I.R. Iran; Berlin, July 2, 2017.
• 2017 “Iranisches Judentum im Spiegel der judäo-persischen Literatur” [Iranian Jewry as reflected in Judaeo-Persian Literature] as part of the lecture series: Kulturwissenschaftliche Iranforschung, organized by the Institute of Iranian studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Österreichischen Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall; Vienna, 20th June 2017.
• 2017 “Fear the daēuuas, even if bearing gifts!” Demonic Gifts and Counter-Gifts in Zoroastrianism, in the international joint event “Dangerous Gifts & Pernicious Transactions from Antiquity to the Digital Age” organized by Institute for Advanced Study at CEU and the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at CEU, Budapest, Hungary, May 19, 2017.
• 2017 “Zoroastrian Iconoclasm in Late Antiquity: A Controversy”, Open Lecture at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna, May 2, 2017.
• 2017 “The Language of the Gods: Some Reflections on the Origin of the Language in Zoroastrianism”; in Thinking in Many Tongues Reading Seminar: Myths on the Origin of Language or on the Plurality of Languages, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin.
• 2017 “Zoroastrian Manuscripts in Classical New Persian. The Manuscripts of Ṣad Dar in Central European Libraries: A Work in Progress”, The international conference on “Persian Manuscripts in the Balkans and Central Europe”, organized by the Center for Iran, Balkans and Central European Studies in partnership with the Cyril and Methodius National Library of Bulgaria and the “St. Kliment Ohridski” Sofia University, Bulgaria.
• 2016 “Homo Ritualis ‒ Rituale und rituelle Traditionen im zoroastrischen Leben” [Homo Ritualis ‒ Rituals und Ritualistic Traditions in Zoroastrianism], as part of the lecture series: Kulturwissenschaftliche Iranforschung, organized by the Institute of Iranian studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Österreichischen Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall; Vienna, Jan. 23, 2016.
• 2015 “Kings and clerics. Ideology, power and religious authority in the ancient Iranian world: a Zoroastrian view”, International workshop: Ideology, Power and Religious Change in Antiquity, 3000 BC – AD 600, 20–24 July 2015, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
• 2015 “The Zoroastrian “Holy Book”: The Understanding and Construction of the Avesta as a Book in Zoroastrian Tradition and Oriental Studies”, Books as Material and Symbolic Artefacts in Religious Book Cultures, May 28–29, 2015. The Käte Hamburger International Centres in the Humanities, Centre for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum.
• 2015 “Zoroastrian Iconoclasm: A (Re)evaluation”, Symposia Iranica. The 2nd Biennial International Conference on Iranian Studies, April 8-9. Downing College, University of Cambridge.
• 2013 “Ikonographische Exegese in zoroastrischen Forschungen”, Institute of Iranian Studies, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.
• 2012 “On the Anthropomorphism and Theriomorphism of Zoroastrian Iconography in Sasanian Iran”, The Ninth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference of The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS), August 1-5, 2012, Istanbul.
• 2011 “Some Notations about the Palaeography of Avestan Manuscripts”, 7th European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS), 7 - 10 September 2011, The Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University of Cracow.
• 2011 “The Iconography of Zoroastrian Angelology in Sassanian Art and Architecture”, Spirits in Transcultural Skies, June 30 - July 1, 2011, Karl Jaspers Centre, Universität Heidelberg.
• 2011 “Die kulturellen und sozialen Hintergründe in den Werken von Bahman Jalali”, 5th June 2011, accompanying programme of the exhibition “Retrospektive des Werkes Bahman Jalalis”, 29th Ma y– 25th September 2011, Sprengel Museum, Hannover.
• 2010 “Gōbadšāh. Ikonographie eines altirsnischen Mythos”, 31. Deutscher Orientalistentag, 20.-24. September 2010, Marburg.
• 2009 “The Aesthetics of Color in Persian Miniature Painting”, The 7. National Conference of Persian Painting, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) ,2009, Tehran.

• 2016-2020: Postdoctoral Research staff, Institute of Iranian Studies (IFI), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in Vienna
• SS 2018: Postdoctoral Academic Staff Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna
• SS 2015-SS 2019: Associated Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Excellence cluster 264 – Topoi (The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations). Institute of Religious Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
• SS 2015-WS 2015/16: Postdoctoral Academic Staff Institute of Religious Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
• 2008 – 2014: Predoctoral Academic Staff, Institute of Iranian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• 2007 – 2015: Fellow at the Graduate School of Humanities Göttingen (GSGG), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• 2013 – 2014: Research assistant of Prof. Dr. Philip G. Kreyenbroek in the book project “The Zoroastrian Tradition and Oral Transmission”, Institute of Iranian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• 2010 – 2013: Member of the post graduate program 896: “Götterbilder – Gottesbilder – Weltbilder: Polytheismus und Monotheismus in der Welt der Antike”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Deputy Professorship

• SS 2016: Deputy Professor for “Ancient religion and culture as well as its reception history”, Institute of Religious Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Asia-Africa-Institute

WiSe 2022/23
LV (Seminar) "An Introduction to the History and Culture of Iran"

LV (Advanced Seminar) "Zoroastrian Middle persian (Pahlavi)"

Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

SoSe 2022
LV (Seminar) "The Emergence of National Identity from Ērānšahr to Iran: Religious, Political and Social Strategies from Antiquity to the Present Day"

LV (Advanced Seminar) "Judeo-Persian and Zoroastrian Literature under Islamic Rule: A Literary History of the Oriental Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period"

WiSe 2021/22
LV (Seminar) "Iranian Poetry, Poetic Theory and Imagery: Themes and Theories from the Avesta to the Indo-Persian Literature"

LV (Gaduate Course) "Remains and Traditions: Sources for the Ancient Iranian History from the ‘Avestan Society’ to the Early Islamic Period"

SoSe 2021
LV (Seminar) "The Emergence of National Identity from Ērānšahr to Iran: Religious, Political and Social Strategies from Antiquity to the Present Day"

LV (Seminar) "Cultural Memory: An Introduction to Pre-modern Iranian Literature and Written Testimonies"

WiSe 2020/21
LV (Fundamental Course) "Zoroastrian Middle Persian (Pahlavi) Language and Literature"

SoSe 2020
LV (Seminar) "Gods, monsters, superheroes and lovers: themes from Iranian mythology and Indo-Persian literature"

WiSe 2019/20
LV (Seminar) "In the Garden of Languages: Iranian Poetry and Imagery from Avesta to the Indo-Persian Literature"

SoSe 2019
LV (Seminar) "Heroes, monsters and lovers: Literary figures and themes from the Persianate world in past and present"

WiSe 2018/19
LV (Seminar) "Iranian poetry, stylistics and imagery from ancient times up to the Safavid period"

Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna

SoSe 2018
VO (Vorlesung) „Zarathustra and his religion: Belief and Rituals from Ancient Persia to Contemporary India„

Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

WiSe 2017/18
LV (Seminar) "From Old Persian Inscriptions to Ṣūfī Literature: Imagery, Stylistics and Rhetoric of Classical Persian Poetry".

SoSe 2017
LV (Seminar) "Judeo-Persian and Zoroastrian Literature under Islamic Rule: A Literary History of the Oriental Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period".

WiSe 2016/17
LV (Seminar) "History and Development of Classical Persian Literature (from its Beginning to the Safavids)

WiSe 2015/16
LV (Seminar) "Judeo-Persian Literature".

Institute of Religious Studies, Freien Universität Berlin

SoSe 2015
LV (Seminar) "The image of women in the religions of the ancient Orient (with a special focus on Zoroastrianism)".

WiSe 2015/16
LV (Lecture) "Introduction to Greek Mythology and its Reception" (as teaching assistant)
LV (Seminar) "Between Fascination and Scepticism: Religion in Film" (as teaching assistant)

SoSe 2016
LV (Seminar) "Zoroastrian Religion and Rituals: Past and Present".
LV (Seminar) "Religious Scriptures of the Ancient Orient: Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Manichaeism and Judaism".

Institute of Iranian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

SoSe 2013
LV (Seminar) "Zoroastrian Rituals and Ritual Literature: Past and Present"; together with Prof. Dr. Kianoosh Rezania.

WiSe 2010/11
LV (Seminar) "Research Methods in the History of Iranian Religion: Iranian Mythology in the Avesta and Middle Persian Sources"; together with Prof. Dr. Philip Kreyenbroek.

WiSe 2009/10
LV (Exercise) for the seminar "Introduction to the Zoroastrian Middle Persian".

WiSe 2009/10 bis WiSe 2013/14
LV „New Persian“.

SoSe 2019
LV (Exercise) to the seminars "Avesta: Gatha Reading; Avestan I"

SoSe 2009
LV Course (exercise) for the seminars "Avesta: Gatha Reading; Avestan I-II".

• 2019 The 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS), 9 - 13 September 2019, at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (co-organizer).
• 2019 International academic book exhibition at the 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS), 9 - 13 September 2019, at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
• 2017 The 5th meeting of the Corpus Avesticum. Editing Avestan Texts in the 21th. Century. „Problems and Perspectives“, at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, March 23-24, 2017. (co-organizer)
• SS 2017 Public Lecture Series "Ritual and Time" in Summer Semester 2017, at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 26.04.2017 - 12.07.2017 (co-organizer).

• Television debate: "Was ist ein Dialekt? Die soziolinguistische Aspekten der Dialekten im Iran"; in “Pargar” – Weekly roundtable, BBC Persian; ausgestrahlt on 23.04.2012.
• Television debate: "Bābak Khorramdin: Sein Aufstand und die Khoramdīnān/Khorramiten"; in “Pargar” – Weekly roundtable, BBC Persian; ausgestrahlt on 18.04.2016.
• Radio debate: "Ist Zoroastrismus eine progressive Religion?"; in Radio Farda; ausgestrahlt on 12.01.2018.
• Television debate: "Auf der Suche nach dem historischen Zarathustra" ; in “Pargar” – Weekly roundtable, BBC Persian; ausgestrahlt on 26.05.2018.