M. Rahim Shayegan
M. Rahim Shayegan | |
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رحیم شایگان | |
| Born | |
| Other names | Rahim Shayegan |
| Education | University of Cologne, University of Paris, University of Göttingen, Harvard University (PhD) |
| Occupations | Historian, scholar, educator |
| Employer | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Iranian studies |
| Notable work | Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia (2011) |
| Father | Dariush Shayegan (father) |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
M. Rahim Shayegan (/ʃɑːjɛɡɑːn/, 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.