Touraj Daryaee

Touraj Daryaee (; born 1967) is an Iranologist and historian. He is from Iran. He works as the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
He got a Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. He has taught at UCLA.
He is the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies and the DABIR: Digital Ar. He is also the director of the Sasanika Project, a project on the history and culture of Sasanians. His most famous books are Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE): Portrait of a Late Antique Empire.
Publications
Daryaee has written many publications. His book, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, in 2010 received multiple awards by BRISMES and the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies.
Selected Books
The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires: adaptation and expansion, eds. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Michael Alram, Touraj Daryaee (Editor), 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 Duree, 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 (Governor Fellowship Lectures given in the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute)
The Oxford History of Iran ed. T. Daryaee, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2012).
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(2009)(Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung).
Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, I.B. Tauris, London, 2009.
Sasanian Iran (224-651 AD): Portrait of a Late Antique Empire, Mazda Publishers, 2008.
World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis, 2 vols., Harlan Davidson, 2007.
Soghoot-e Sasanian (The Fall of Sasanians) 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(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.