Shayegan, M. Rahim

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Name (Latin)
Shayegan, M. Rahim
Name (Arabic)
شایگان، رحیم
Date of birth
1966-12-26
Associated country
Germany
Field of activity
Iran--Religion
Iranian philology
Islam--Historiography
Persian literature
Occupation
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 158698152
Wikidata: Q111077247
Library of congress: no2010137110

Wikipedia description:

M. Rahim Shayegan (, Persian: رحیم شایگان, romanized: M. Raḥīm Šāygān) is an Iranian-American historian of the ancient world. He is Professor of Iranian and the Ancient Near East and the Eleanor and Jahangir Amuzegar Chair in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). At UCLA, he also serves as the founding director of the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World, the founding director of the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions, as well as the founder and chair of Global Antiquity, an academic unit of the Division of Humanities.

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