Khodadad Rezakhani

Title and contact details Khodādād Rezakhani Research Officer-- Islamic Central and West Asia Room TW2 2.04 Houghton Street WC2A 2AE, London, UK tel: +44-(0)20-7955-6980 email: k.rezakhani@lse.ac.uk

Current research project

"Within the framework of the URKEW project, I am currently looking at the production of knowledge in the post-Mongol Period in Central and West Asia, with particular attention to the emerging "gun-powder" empires of the Safavids and the Ottomans. Contributing to the Divergence Debate, raised and most accentuated by Ken Pomeranz's seminal book of the same title, the project as a whole tries to understand and map the paths of scientific development in the longue durée, and within the decidely broader confines of Global History. Specifically for Central and West Asia, I am trying to gather information on the attitudes toward learning after the Mongol period, the institutions of elite and common learning, as well as the reaction to, and the diffusion of, newly arriving European knowledge in the later, 16th-18th centuries.

Aside from my URKEW project, I am continuing to develop my ideas, write papers, organise conferences, and generally contribute to my primary field of speciality and interest, which is the Late Antique (200-750 CE) economic history of the region between Transoxiana and the Eastern Mediterranean. Despite chronological differences with my URKEW project, the geographical span of both fields of my activity are indeed the same, and thus allow me to study them in a truly Global Historical outlook. "  

Education

2010	Department of History, UCLA	PhD in History     Dissertation: Empires and Micro-Systems: Late Antique Economy of West Asia, 500-750 CE.
2002	MSc Global History	LSE
1999	BA International Studies and History	Texas A&M University, USA

  

Teaching Experience

Year	Post	Institution
2010-present	URKEW Project, Research Officer, Islamic Central and West Asia	Department Of Economic History, LSE
2009	Visiting Research Scholar	Numismatische Kommission, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna
2005-present	Project Manager: Art and Archaeology	Sasanika Project, UC Irvine
2005-2008	Teaching Fellow Dept. of History	UCLA
2005-2007	Adjunct Professor	Santa Monica College, CA

Awards

• 2009-2010 History Advisory Council/Shapiro Dissertation Year Fellowship (UCLA).
• 2009: UCLA International Institute, Fieldwork Fellowship.
• 2008-2009: UCLA Graduate Division Pre-Dissertation Fellowship.

Selected publications

  Books

• Schindel, Nikolaus and Khodadad Rezakhani. Syllogue Nummorum Sasanidarum Tübingen, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2011 (forthcoming).
• Daryaee, T., K. Rezakhani and M. Compareti. Iranians on the Silk Road: Merchants, Kingdoms, and Religions. Beverley Hills: Afshar Press, 2010

 

Articles

• "The Road That Never Was: Silk Road and the Trans-Eurasian Trade" Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and Middle East, 30.2 (2010)  (Forthcoming).
• "Bactrian Document and the Late Antique Economy of Northern Afghanistan," in Maria Macuch (ed.) Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of Societas Iranologica Europea, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2010.
•  "Caliphs, Kings, and Khans: Tenth Century Diplomacy in the Rihlah of Ibn Fadlan," A. Shahpur Shahbazi Memorial Volume, ed. K. Abdi, 2010.
• "The "Unbekannter König IV" and the Coinage of Hellenistic and Arsacid Persis," International Journal of Iranian Studies (NIB), 15, (2010).
• "Arsacid Genealogy: a Reassessment," Iranian Journal of History and Archaeology, Summer 2010.
• Rezakhani, K & T. Daryaee. "The Achaemenid Empire in the Context of World History (550-330 BCE)," in Excavating an Empire: the Persian Longue Durée, ed. A. Mousavi, Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2009.
• Daryaee, Touraj & K. Rezakhani "Administrative Divisions of Ancient Iran," Rahavard 87 (2009).
• "Menander Protector: Fragments 6.1-3 with commentary," Sasanika, 2008.
• "Bactrian Economic Documents and Their Importance for the Economic History of Sasanian Iran", e-Sasanika 3, 2008 www.humanities.uci.edu/sasanika/pdf/KhodadadRezakhani3.pdf
• "Faking Yazdgerd," Iranian, January 2005

Reviews

• "Parvaneh Pourshariati: Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire," Iranian Studies, 2010 (Forthcoming).
• "Michael Alram: Ein Schatzfund Hephtalitischer Drachmen aus Baktrien," Abstracta Iranica, Fall 2010.
• "Translation of J. Wiesehofer's 'die Dunkelen Jahrhunderte Persiens'," NIB, 15, 2009.
• "Iranian Studies from Across the World," Bukhara 71, October 2009.
• "Engelbert Winter and Beate Dignas: Iran und das Perserreich," NIB 13-14, 2009.
• "Manijeh Abka'i-Khavari: Das Bild des Königs in der Sasanidenzeit: Schriftliche
• Überlieferungen im Vergleich mit Antiquaria", Iranian Journal of History and Archaeology, 2008.
• "Touraj Daryaee: The Sasanian Empire", Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History, Vol. I, No. 2, Spring 2007.
• "Jozef Wolski: L'Empire des Arsacides," Nameye Iran-e Bastan, Issue 7, Winter 2005 (printed Winter 2006).

Conference Presentations

• "Prosopography of the Sasanian and Early Islamic Empires", Seventh Biennial
• Conference of Iranian Studies, Los Angeles, May 2010.
• "Empires and Micro-system: Late Antique Economy and Economic Boundaries," MESA Conference, November 2009, Boston, MA.
• "Economic History of Bactria in Late Antiquity", presented at the Sixth Conference of the Societas Iranologica Europea, Vienna, September 19-22, 2007.
• "Mazdakite Rebellion and Sasanian Succession", Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies, London, August 2-5, 2006.
• "Religion of Bardia: Some Suggestions based on Darius' Inscriptions", Colloquium on Ancient Iran, CSU Fullerton, March 2006.
• "Sexual Communism: A New Look at the Rebellion of Mazdak," the 10^th UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference, April 2005.
• "Perso-centrism and the Iranian National Identity", V European Conference of Iranian Studies, Ravenna, Italy, October 2003.

Miscellaneous

• Author and editor of www.iranologie.com
• History Editor: www.cappuccinomag.com

Languages

Modern

• Persian: Native
•  English: Fluent
•  German: advanced knowledge.
• Arabic, French & Swedish: intermediate speaking, advanced reading knowledge

 Ancient

•  Old & Middle Persian, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit,
•  Syriac, Old Norse, Bactrian, OHG, Latin.

Curriculum Vitae

• CV (pdf)