M. Rahim Shayegan

Books

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  Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia

  Cambridge University Press, October 2011

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  Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām

  Harvard University Press, November 2012

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  The Talmud in its Iranian Context

  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010

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  Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore

  Harvard University Press, 2019

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  Persia Beyond Oxus: Bulletin of the Asia Institute 21

  Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 2007

Articles

Articles, Essays and Book Chapters

• “Kingship iii: Sasanian Iran,” Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. xvii, 2023, 235–248.
• “The End of the Parthian Arsacid Empire.” In The End of Empires. Decline, Erosion and Implosion. Edited by Robert Rollinger and Michael Gehler, 2022, 213–247.
• “Contesting the Empire: Dareios III and Alexander of Macedon.” In The World of Alexander in Perspective: Contextualizing Arrian. Edited by Julian Degen and Robert Rollinger, 2022, 285–313.
• “The Sasanian Empire.” In Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World. Edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara Cole. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2021, 259–270.
• “The Cameo of Warahrān II,” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 30, 2020/2021, 1–20.
• “Le Roi et son interlocuteur : Remarques sur les stratégies discursives des inscriptions royales Achéménides et Sassanides.” Res Orientales (Leuven) 28, 2020 : 137–138.
• “Persianism: Or Achaemenid Reminiscences in the Iranian and Iranicate World(s) of Antiquity.” In Persianism in Antiquity. Edited by Rolf Strootman and Miguel Jon Versluys. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017: 401–557.
• “Old Iranian Motifs in Vīs o Rāmīn.” In Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy. Edited by Alireza Korangi, Wheeler M. Thakston, Roy P. Mottahedeh, William Granara. Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East, volume 31. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2016: 29–50.
• “The Arsacids and the Commagene.” In The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires: Adaptation and Expansion: Proceedings of a Conference held in Vienna, 14−15 June 2012. Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Elizabeth J. Pendelton, Michael Alram, and Touraj Daryaee. BIPS Archaeological Monograph Series V. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2016: 8–22.
• “Sasanian Royal Ideology.” In The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran. Edited by D. T. Potts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013: 805–813.
• “Prosopographical Notes: The Iranian Nobility during and after the Macedonian Conquest.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 21, 2007 [2012]: 97–126.
• “Bardiya and Gaumāta: An Achaemenid Enigma Reconsidered.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 20, 2006 [2010]: 65–76.
• “Nugae Epigraphicae.” In Festschrift for Prods Oktor Skjærvø. Edited by Nicholas and Ursula Sims-Williams. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 19. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 2005 [2009]: 169–179.
• “On the Rationale behind the Roman Wars of Šābuhr II the Great.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 18, 2004 [2008]: 111–133.
• “Philostratus’s Heroikos and the Ideation of Late Severan Policy toward Arsacid and Sasanian Iran” In Philostratus’s Heroikos: Religion and Cultural Identity in the Third Century CE. Edited by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean. Writings of the Greco-Roman World, Number 6, ser. ed. John T. Fitzgerald. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004, 285–315.
• “On Demetrius II Nicator’s Arsacid Captivity and Second Rule.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 17, 2003 [2007]: 83–103.
• “Approaches to the Study of Sasanian History.” In Paitimāna: Essays in Iranian, Indo-European, and Indian Studies in Honor of Hanns-Peter Schmidt. Edited by S. Adhami. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 2003, 363–384.
• “On the Function of the (h)argbed in Sasanian Iran.” In Ahmad Tafazzoli: A Commemorative. Iran Nameh: A Persian Journal of Iranian Studies. Vol. 17:2. Bethesda, MD: Foundation for Iranian Studies, 1999, 287–290.
• “The Evolution of the Concept of xwadāy in Middle Persian. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 51, no. 1–2 (1998): 31–54.

Encyclopaedia Entries

• “Hormizd I.” Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. 12, no. 5 (2004): 462–464.
• “Hazārbed.” Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. 12, no. 1 (2003): 93–95.
• “Ḵosrow I Anōširavān.” Encyclopædia Iranica. In preparation.

Reviews

• Macuch, Maria. Rechtskasuistik and Gerichtspraxis zu Beginn des siebenten Jahrhunderts in Iran: Die Rechtssammlung des Farroḫmard i Wahrāmān. Edited by Maria Macuch. Iranica, Band 1. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1993, xiv, 807 S. In Orientalische Literaturzeitung 93 (1998): 230–234.
• Wiesehöfer, Josef. Ancient Persia. London: I. B. Tauris, 1996. In Iranian Studies 33, 1-2 (2000): 238–240.
• Tafazzoli, Ahmad. Sasanian Society: I. Warriors; II. Scribes; III. Dehqāns. Ehsan Yarshater Distinguished Lectures in Iranian Studies, No. 1. New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000, 71. In Journal of the American Oriental Society 132:1 (2012): 124–125.
• Cantera, Alberto. Studien zur Pahlavi Übersetzung des Avesta. Edited by Maria Macuch. Iranica, Band 7. In Journal of the American Oriental Society 131:3 (2011): 504–506.