This paper discusses the importance of Persepolis/Parse as a location of memory of the past in the province of Persis/Fars. While written documentation memorializing the Achaemenids by subsequent dynasties on…
Touraj Daryaee holds the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and is the Directory of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California,…
The Limits of Tolerance: Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and Others in the Sasanian Empire There are many reports on periodic persecution of religious groups from the 3rd century CE, until the…
About the Speaker Dr. Daryaee’s research has focused on ancient and early medieval history of Iran, specifically the Sasanian Empire. He has worked on Middle Persian literature, editing and translating…