Touraj Daryaee

History of Late Antique Iran

Touraj Daryaee edited The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History

(2011). He is 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 Study & Culture at the University of California, Irvine. This is his lecture at UCLA's Center for Near Eastern Studies:

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Mehrban

Interesting!

by Mehrban on Thu May 05, 2011 07:37 AM PDT

According to Mr Daryaee,  pre Islamic Iranian history (here, specifically the Sassanid era) was read in the seventies in Iran through either a Soviet interpretation or an Islamist one.   That is very interesting considering the actual events on the ground (namely, revolution 1979).


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