Touraj Daryaee

Career

Publications

Selected Books

• The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires: adaptation and expansion, eds. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Michael Alram, Touraj Daryaee, Oxbow Press, Oxford, 2016.
• From Oxus to Euphrates: The World of Late Antique Iran, Ancient Iran Series, UCI Center for Persian Studies, 2016.
• Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persian in Longue Dureé, eds. T. Daryaee, A. Mousavi, Kh. Rezakhani, Mazda Publishers, 2014.
• Cyrus the Great: An Ancient Iranian King, ed. T. Daryaee, Afshar Publishers, 2014.
• On the Explanation of Chess and Backgammon: A Middle Persian Text, UCI Center for Persian Studies, 2016.
• Iranian Kingship, The Arab Conquest and Zoroastrian Apocalypse, Mumbai, 2012
• The Oxford History of Iran ed. T. Daryaee, Oxford University Press.
• Bibliographika 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 and P. Ranjbar, Mazda Publishers, 2009.
• Iranistik: Deutschsprachige Zeitschrift fur iranistische Studien. Festschrift fur Erich Kettenhofen eds. T. Daryaee & O. Tabibzadeh, 5. Jahrgang, Heft 1&2, 2006-2007.
• Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, I.B. Tauris, London, 2009.
• Sasanian Iran : Portrait of a Late Antique Empire, Mazda Publishers, 2008.
• World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis, 2 vols., Harlan Davidson, 2007.
• Soghoot-e Sasanian Iran's Historical Press, Tehran, 2005.
• Meno-ye Xrad: The Spirit of Wisdom. Essays in Memory of Ahmad Tafazzoli, eds. T. Daryaee and M. Omidsalar, Mazda Publishers, 2004.
• Shahrestaniha-i Eranshahr: A Middle Persian Text on Late Antique Geography, Epic and History, Costa Mesa, 2002.

  Selected Articles (European Languages)

• “Western and Central Eurasia 1200BCE - 900CE,” The Cambridge World History: A World with States, Empires, and Networks, 1200 BCE-900 CE, ed. C. Benjamin, Vol. IV, Cambridge, 2015, pp. 272-295.
• “Alexander and the Arsacids in the Manuscript MU29,” DABIR, vol. 1, 2015: http://www.dabirjournal.org/
• “Zoroastrianism under Islamic Rule,” The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism, ed. M. Stausberg & Y. S.-D. Vevaina, 2015, pp. 103-118.
• T. Daryaee & M.C.A. Macdonald, A. Corcella, G. Fisher, M. Gibbs, A. Lewin, D. Violante, C. Whately, “Arabs and Empires before the Sixth Century,” Arabs and Empires before Islam, ed. G. Fisher, Oxford, 2015, pp. 11-89.
• T. Daryaee & H. Munt, O. Edaibat, R. Hoyland, I. Toral-Neihoff, “Arabic and Persian Sources for Pre-Islamic Arabia,” Arabs and Empires before Islam, ed. G. Fisher, Oxford, 2015, pp. 434-500.
• T. Daryaee & S. Malekzadeh, “Why was Kerdir Forgotten?,” Iran Nameh: Festschirft for Ehsan Yarshater, vol. 30, no. 2, 2015, pp. 280-287.
• T. Daryaee & S. Malekzadeh, “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,” with Kh. Rezakhani in Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persia in Longue Dureé, 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.
• “The Sasanian Empire,” Oxford Handbook of Iranian History, Oxford, 2012, pp. 187-207.
• “A Bulla of Eran-Spahbed of Nemroz,” with K. Safdari, NAMVARNAMEH: Papers in Honour of Massoud Azarnoush, eds. H. Fahimi & K. Alizadeh, Tehran, 2012, pp. 163-166.
• “The Sasanian Empire,” co-authored with A. Mousavi, A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, ed. D. Potts, Blackwell, Oxford.
• “The Achaemenid Empire in the Context of World History,” co-authored with Kh. Rezakhani, Excavating an Empire: The Persian Longue Durée, ed. A. Mousavi, Mazda Publishers, 2009.
• “Bazaars, Merchants and Trade in Late Antique Iran,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, vol. 28, no. 1.
• “The last Ruling Woman of ?r?nšahr: Queen ?zarm?gduxt,” A. Shapur Shahbazi Memorial Volume, ed. K. Abdi, Iran University Press, Tehran.
• “Ancient Iranian Studies in the 20th Century,” Iranian Studies, vol. 42, no. 1.
• “The Idea of Iranšahr: Jewish, Christian and Manichaean Views in Late Antiquity,” Societas Iranologica Europaea – Proceedings, ed. C. Cereti & B. Teribili, Rome.
• “When the End is Near: Barbarized Armies and Barracks Kings of Late Antique Iran,” Iranica, ed. M. Macuch, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.
• "Shapur II," Encyclopaedia Iranica http://www.iranica.com/newsite/ 2009
• "Abarqubadh," The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition, Part 2009-1.
• “A Bulla of the ?r?n-Sp?hbed of N?mr?z,” co-author with K. Safdari, e-Sasanika 8, 2009 : http://www.humanities.uci.edu/sasanika/pdf/e-sasanika8-dar-saf.pdf
• "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.
• "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, pp. 21-30.
• “The Persian Gulf in Late Antiquity: The Sasanian Era,” The Persian Gulf in History, ed. L.G. Potter, Palgrave, New York, 2009.
• “Kingship in Early Sasanian Iran,” The Sasanian Era: The Idea of Iran, vol. III, eds. V. Sarkhosh Curtis and S. Stewart, London, 2008, pp. 60-70.
• “Indo-European Elements in the Zoroastrian Apocalyptic Tradition,” Classical Bulletin, vol. 83, no. 2, 2007, pp. 203-213.
• “The Mysteries of the House of Sasan: When did Ardaxš?r Rule over Istakhr?,” Bastanpazhouhi, vol. 2, no. 4, 2007, pp. 15-20.
• “List of Fruits and Nuts in the Zoroastrian Tradition: An Irano-Hellenic Classification,” Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, vols. 11/12, 2006-2007, pp. 1-10.
• "Imitatio Alexandri and Its Impact on Late Arsacid, Early Sasanian and Middle Persian Literature," Electrum, Studies in Ancient History, vol. 12, 2007, pp. 89-94.
• "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 XVII, 2007, pp. 65-72.
• "The Construction of the Past in Late Antique Persia," Historia, Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, vol. 55, no. 4, 2006, pp. 493-503.
• "The Art of Wine in Ancient Persia," Hamazor, Publication of the world Zoroastrian organization, vol. 1, 2006, pp. 34-36.
• "A Note on the Great Seal of Peroz and Middle Persian NYCNY," Indo-Iranian Journal, vol. 48, Nos. 3-4, 2005, pp. 195-197.
• "Sasanians and their Ancestors," Societas Iranologica Europoea – Proceedings, ed. A. Panaino and A. Piras, vol. I, Milano, 2005, pp. 287-293.
• "Ethnic and Territorial Boundaries in Late Antique and Early Medieval Persia," Borders, Barriers, and Ethnogenesis, Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages, ed. F. Curta, Brepols, 2005, pp. 123-137.
• "The 'Bow of Rustam' and the 'Gleaming Armor' of the Parthians: Notes on teh Parthian Epic Ayadgar i Zareran," Electrum: Studies in Ancient History, vol. 10, 2005, pp. 95-98.
• "Notes on Early Sasanian Tiulature," Journal of the Society for Ancient Numismatics, vol. 21, 2002, pp. 41-44.
• "Das Uberleben eines sehr alten persischen Titels in Zentralasien," Iranistik, Deutschprachige Zeitschrift fur iranistische Studien, vol. 3, no. 1, 2004, pp.41-48.
• "History, Epic, and Numismatics: On the Title of Yazdgerd I," Journal of the American Numismatic Society, vol. 14, 2002, pp. 89-95.
• "The Effect of the Arab Muslim Conquest on the Administrative Division of Sasanian Persis/Far," Iran: The British Institute of Persian Studies, vol. 31, 2003, pp. 193-204.
• "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 Mazdean sect of Gayomartiya," Atash-e Dorun, Jamshid Soroush Soroushian Memorial Volume, ed. C. Cereti, 2003, pp. 131-137.
• "The Persian Gulf Trade in Late Antiquity," Journal of World History, vol. 14, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1-16.
• "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.
• "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, pp. 1-6.
• "The Changing ‘image of the World’: Geography and Imperial Propaganda in Ancient Persia," Electrum, Studies in Ancient History, vol. 6, 2002, pp. 99-109.
• "Two Recently Discovered Inscribed Sasanian Silver Bowls," in collaboration with Judith Lerner and Dayoush Akbarzadeh, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, vol. 15, 2001, pp. 71-76.
• "Kave the Black-Smith: An Indo-Iranian Fashioner?," Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik, Vol. 22, 1999, 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, pp. 131-148.
• "Sasanian Persia," The Journal of Society for Iranian Studies, vol. 31,

• "Middle Iranian Sources for the Study of Medieval Islamic History," 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 the Mint Production in the Sasanian Empire," Oriental Numismatic Society No. 150, Autumn 1996, pp. 8-9.
• "Keyanid History or National History? The Natue of Sasanian Zoroastrian Historiography," The Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies, vol. 28, Nos. 3-4, 1995, pp. 121-145.

  Selected Articles (Persian Language)

• "Two Notes on the Mythological Geography of Iranians," Studia Persica, Sot?deh N?ma, ed. I. Afshar, Tehran, 2005, vol. 15 pp. 345-349.
• "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 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.
• "Royal and Communal Views of ?r?nšahr 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.
• "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 Mogan, Jamš?d Sor?sh??n 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.
• "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.
• "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 ?ihr az Yazdan and the Sassanian Kings," Name-ye Farhangestan, The Quarterly Journal of Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2000, pp. 28-32.
• "The Wonders and Worthiness of Sistan," Iranshenasi, A Journal of Iranian Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 3, Autumn 1996, pp. 534-542.