Hassan Rezai Baghbidi

Professor of Iranian Studies, Osaka University

Permanent Member of the Academy of and Literature

1. Administrative and Scientific Experience  Full Professor of the Department of Ancient and Culture, University of Tehran (up to 2015)  Director of the Iranology Department of the Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia (1999-2011)  Head of the Department of Iranian Languages and Dialects of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (2010-2016)  Member of the Supreme Council of the Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia (since 2001)  Advisor to the Persian Literature Department of the Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation in the Fields of Linguistics and Dialectology (since 2001)  Director of the Linguistics Department of the Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia (2002-2011)  Member of the Advising Council of Nāme-ye Pārsi , Journal of the Centre for the Expansion of Persian Language and Literature (2002-2008)  Member of the Research Committee of the Cultural Heritage Organization (2002- 2003)  Editor of Dialectology , Journal of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (2003-2004)  Editor of Āyene-ye Mirās, Journal of the Research Centre for Written Heritage (2009-2013)  Member of the Editorial Board of Рудаки , Published in Tajikistan (Since 2004)  Member of the Planning Council of the Department of History, Planning and Textbook Preparation Office of the Iranian Ministry of Education (2005-2008)  Member of the Editorial Board of Majalle-ye Adab-Pažuhi , Journal of The University of Gilān (Since 2006)  Member of the Editorial Board of Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān, International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies (Since 2004)  Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Persianate Studies , Brill (Since 2008)  Member of the Editorial Board of Nāme-ye Farhangestān, Journal of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (Since 2011)  Member of the Editorial Board of Našriye-ye Pažuhešhā-ye Zabān-Šenāsi-ye Tatbiqi , Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran (Since 2012)  Editor of Zabānhā va Guyešhā-ye Irāni , Journal of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (Since 2012)  Member of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS) and One of the 15 Members of Its Consultative Committee  Member of the Board of Trustees of the Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation (2013- 2017)  Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre for the Expansion of International Cooperations, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (since 2014)

1 2. Prize Winner of the 23 rd Festival of the Book of the Year of Iran (2005) 3. Prize Winner of the 24 th Festival of the Book of the Year of Iran (2006) 4. Prize Winner of the 12 th Festival of the Book of the Season (2010) 5. Prize Winner of the 31 st Festival of the Book of the Year of Iran (2013) 6. Prize Winner of the 1 st Festival of the Book of the Year of Iranian University Professors (Dehkhoda Medal) (2015)

7. Papers Presented in National and International Conferences  ‘The Role of the Silk Road in the Eastward Expansion of Manichaeism’ (in Persian), The Third International Conference on the Silk Road, Tehran, 22-23 April 1997.  ‘Neologisms in the Sassanian Period and Their Impact on Early Persian’ (in Persian), The First Seminar on Issues in Terminology , Tehran, 27-29 February 1999.  ‘Reappraisal of Ahurian and Ahrimanian Words in the Avesta ’ (in Persian), The Fifth Linguistics Conference , Tehran, 11-13 March 2000.  ‘A Survey and Classification of the Languages of the Gypsies of Iran’ (in Persian), The First Seminar of Iranian Dialectology , Tehran, 29 April-1 May 2001.  ‘Translation of Sacred Texts’ (in Persian), The First National Conference on ELT and Related Disciplines , Tabriz, Islamic Azad University, 1-2 September 2001.  ‘Reciprocal Relations between Old/Middle Iranian and Indian Languages’ (in Persian), XXIII All India Persian Teachers’ Conference , Patna (India), 8-10 April 2002.  ‘The ‘Future’ Tense in Western Iranian Languages and Dialects’ (in Persian), The First National Iranology Conference , Tehran, 17-20 June 2002.  ‘The Zargari Language from an Areal Linguistic Perspective’, The Eleventh International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI) , Joensuu (Finland), 5-9 August 2002.  ‘Some Evidence from the Old Carmanian Language’ (in Persian), The First Conference on the Dialectology of Kerman , Kerman, 4-5 March 2003.  ‘Sanskrit Terminology Work: Three Thousand Years of Experience’ (in Persian), The Second Seminar on Issues in Terminology , Tehran, 6-8 May 2003.  ‘Linguistic Analysis of the Persian Diatessaron’ (in Persian), XXIV All India Persian Teachers’ Conference , Poona (India), 31 May-2 June 2003.  ‘Iranian Elements in Sanskrit’, 12th World Sanskrit Conference , Helsinki (Finland), 13-18 July 2003.  ‘La lingua degli zingari di Shiraz’, Fifth European Conference of Iranian Studies , Ravenna (Italy), 5-11 October 2003.  ‘Linguistic Peculiarities of the Oldest Persian Texts in Non- Scripts’, Second Biennial Convention on Iranian Studies , Yerevan (Armenia), 2-5 April 2004.  ‘A Linguistic Analysis of Iranian Lexical Elements in Sanskrit’, 37 th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS-37) , Moscow (Russia), 16- 21 August 2004.  ‘The ’ (in Persian), Loh-ta-Loh International Conference , Tehran, 4- 6 July 2005.  ‘Вежагиҳои забоншинохтии диотиссоруни форсй’, Панҹумин Анҹумани байналмилалии устодони забон ва адабиёти форсу тоҹик , Dushanbe (Tajikistan), 9-10 March 2006.  ‘Linguistic Peculiarities of the Sanskrit Translation of the 13 th Chapter of the Škend Gumānīg Wizār’, 13 th World Sanskrit Conference , Edinburgh (Scotland), 10-14 July 2006.

2  ‘Dialectal Variations in Early Persian Texts’, Iranian Culture and Persian Literature , Osaka (Japan), 6-7 January 2007.  ‘Sassanians and Zoroastrians in China and Japan’ (in Persian), International Seminar on Iran and : Beliefs and Ideas , Tehran (Iran), 6-7 September 2007.  ‘The Qorbati s of Shiraz and Their Language’, Iran and Islam: Culture and Tradition , Osaka (Japan), 12-13 January 2008.  ‘Ancient Iranian Poetry and the Impacts of Iranian Languages on Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages’, Osaka University (Japan), 24 January 2009.  ‘Parsi Sanskrit’, 14 th World Sanskrit Conference , Kyoto (Japan), 1-5 September 2009.  ‘History of Iranian Languages’ (in Persian), Tehran, Islamic Azad University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, 19 May 2010.  ‘On the Name of Cyrus’ (in Persian), Conference on Cyrus the Great and Du Al- Qarnayn , Tehran, 27 May 2010.  ‘Magic in Ancient Iranian Culture’, Osaka University (Japan), 19 February 2011.  ‘Another sipihr in the Šāhnāma ’ (in Persian), Conference on the Millennium of the Šāhnāma , Tehran, Academy of Persian Language and Literature, 14-15 May 2011.  ‘The Iranian Background of the Metre of the Šāhnāma ’ (in Persian), International Conference on the Millennium of the Composition of the Šāhnāma , Tehran, Islamic Azad University, 23-25 November 2011.  ‘West Middle Iranian Poetic Metres and Their Continuation in Early New Persian’, Summer School on Iranian Linguistics , Hamburg University (Germany), 15 August-2 September 2011.  ‘An Indo-European Insect in Iranian Languages and Dialects’ (in Persian), International Conference on Iranian Languages and Dialects: Past and Present , Tehran, Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, 8-9 June 2012.  ‘Dialectology and Classical Texts’, Summer School on Iranian Linguistics , Hamburg University (Germany), 6-17 August 2012.  ‘An Existence, Deletion and Change of the Ergative Construction in a Number of and New Persian Varieties’ (in Persian), The First Conference on Iranian Languages , Tehran, Iranian Linguistic Society, 2 May 2013.  ‘Manichaean Middle Persian Metre’ (in Persian), The Second Conference on Iranian Metres , Tehran, Iranian Linguistic Society, 15-16 May 2013.  ‘Achaemenid Numismatics’ (in Persian), The First Summer School on the Achaemenids: Language, History, and Culture , Tehran, Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, 1-11 July 2013.  ‘The Coins of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna’ (in Persian), The International Conference on Ghazna and Persian Language and Literature , Tehran, Academy of Persian Language and Literature, 21-22 October 2013.  ‘Rare Examples of the Uses of Clitics in Middle Iranian Languages’ (in Persian), The First Conference on Clitics in Iranian Languages , Tehran, Iranian Linguistic Society, 26 December 2013.  ‘The Importance of the Documentation and Study of Gypsy Dialects’ (in Persian), International Workshop on Iranian Languages , Tehran, University of Tehran, 22 February-5 March 2014.  ‘The Bisotun Inscription Revisited’ (in Persian), The Second Summer School on the Achaemenids: Language, History, and Culture , Tehran, Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, 12-21 May 2014.  ‘Scanty References to Georgia in Middle Iranian Sources’, International Conference “The Middle East and Caucasus: History, Culture, Politics” Dedicated

3 to the 110 th Anniversary of Acad. George Tsereteli , Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia), 19-20 December 2014.  ‘Iranian Languages and Dialects from the Ancient Times to the Present’, Iran- Japan Cultural Association , Osaka (Japan), 29 November 2015.  ‘Iranian Gypsies: History, Culture, Language’, Iran Kenkyūkai , Osaka University (Japan), 26-27 March 2016.  ‘Iranian Onomastics: A Historical Review’, Kansai Iran , Osaka University (Japan), 18 June 2016.  ‘Diglossia and Persian Language Education’, International Seminar on Persian Language Education in Japanese Universities , Osaka University (Japan), 28-29 January 2017.  ‘History of Iranian Coinage’, Iran-Japan Cultural Association , Osaka (Japan), 26 February 2017.  ‘タアーロフを知る、タアーロフから学ぶ ’, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 08 February 2020.

8. Published Articles  ‘The Pañcatantra in Sanskrit and Persian Literatures’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Farhangestān 5 , 1375 (1996), pp. 84-103.  ‘Four Sogdian Loan-Words in the Hidāyat al-Mota‛allimīn fī al-Tibb ’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Farhangestān 7 , 1375 (1996), pp. 61-64.  ‘Phonological Differences between Standard Persian and Malāyeri Persian’ (in Persian), Farhang-e Hamadān , 2, 7, 1375 (1996), pp. 18-24.  ‘A Study of Some Hindi Loan-Words in Persian Poetry’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Farhangestān 8 , 1375 (1996), pp. 103-116.  ‘Deciphering the Persian Inscription Mentioned in the Nihāyat al-’Irab ’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Farhangestān 9 , 1376 (1997), pp. 51-54.  ‘The Echo of a Patriarchal Culture in Indo-European Languages’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Farhangestān 9 , 1376 (1997), pp. 89-99.  ‘The Role of the Silk Road in the Eastward Expansion of Manichaeism’ (in Persian), Majmu’e-ye Maqālāt-e Dovomin Ejlās-e Beynolmelali-ye Jāde-ye Abrišam , Tehran, 1376 (1997), pp. 102-112.  ‘The Judgment and Crucifixion of Jesus the Messiah in Manichaean Texts’ (in Persian), Mehr-o Dād-o Bahār (Mehrdād Bahār Memorial Volume) , ed. A. K. Bālā-Zāde, Tehran, 1377 (1998), pp. 101-117.  ‘An Introduction to Sanskrit Language and Literature’ (in Persian), Mehr-o Dād-o Bahār (Mehrdād Bahār Memorial Volume) , ed. A. K. Bālā-Zāde, Tehran, 1377 (1998), pp. 119-159.  ‘The Saošyanta in the Avesta ’ (in Persian), Maqālāt va Barrasihā 64 , 1377 (1998), pp. 103-113.  ‘A Manichaean Hymn in Parthian’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Farhangestān 14 , 1377 (1998), pp. 50-61.  ‘Neologisms in the Sassanian Period and Their Impact on Early Persian’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Farhangestān 15 , 1377 (1998), pp. 145-158.  ‘On Two Obsolete Persian Words’ (in Persian), A. Tafazzoli Memorial Volume , ed. A. A. Sādeqi, Tehran, 1379 (2000), pp. 195-199.  ‘On the Pahlavi Translation of a Quranic Statement’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān 1 , 1380 (2001), pp. 11-14.  ‘Reappraisal of Ahurian and Ahrimanian Words in the Avesta ’ (in Persian), Nāme- ye Farhangestān 18 , 1380 (2001), pp. 68-76.

4  ‘Reciprocal Relations of Old and Middle Iranian and Indian Languages’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Farhangestān 20 , 1381 (2002), pp. 65-75.  ‘A Study and Classification of the Languages of the Gypsies of Iran’ (in Persian), Majmu’e-ye Maqālāt-e Naxostin Hamandiši-ye Guyeš-šenāsi-ye Irān , ed. H. R. Baghbidi, Tehran, 1381 (2002), pp. 241-258.  ‘Some Proposed Readings on Western Middle Iranian Manichaean Texts’, Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān 3 , 2002, pp. 45-50.  ‘On the Unknown Epithet of a Manichaean God’, Central Asiatic Journal 46/1 , 2002, pp. 1-4.  ‘Old Širāzi’ (in Persian), Guyeš-Šenāsi 1 , 1382 (2003), pp. 32-40.  ‘The Zargari Language: An Endangered European Romani in Iran’, Romani Studies 5, 13/2, 2003, pp. 123-148.  ‘The Vidari Dialect’ (in Persian), Guyeš-Šenāsi 3, 1383 (2004), pp. 20-38.  ‘Persian Introduction’ to Avesta Grammar and Reader , by W. Jackson, Tehran, 1383 (2004).  ‘The Pahlavi-Kufic Inscription of the Tower of Lā IJim’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān 7 , 1384 (2005), pp. 9-21.  ‘The Avestan Script’ (in Persian), Seyr-e Xatt-o Ketābat , Tehran, 1384 (2005), pp. 99-107.  ‘Sanskrit Terminology Work: Three Thousand Years of Experience’ (in Persian), Proceedings of the Second Seminar on Issues in Terminology , Tehran, 1384 (2005), pp. 311-322.  ‘On the Translation of Religious Texts’ (in Persian), Ma'āref , vol. 21, no. 1, 1384 (2005), pp. 31-47.  ‘Iranian and Non-Iranian Languages Spoken in Iran’ (in Persian), Iran: History, Culture and Art , Tehran, 1385 (2006), pp. 122-154.  ‘The Oldest Persian Texts in Non-Arabic Scripts (Hebrew, Syrian and Manichaean)’ (in Persian), Nāme-ye Farhangestān 30 , 1385 (2006), pp. 9-31.  ‘Iranian Elements in Sanskrit’, Themes and Tasks in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan Linguistics , ed. B. Tikkanen and H. Hettrich, New Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2006, pp. 143-166.  ‘La lingua degli zingari di Shiraz’, Proceedings of the 5 th Conference of the Societas Iranologica Europæa, ed. A. Panaino and R. Zipoli, Milano, Mimesis, 2006, vol. II, pp. 307-316.  ‘Linguistic Peculiarities of the Sanskrit Translation of the 13 th Chapter of the Škend Gumānīg Wizār’, Essays in Honour of Sādeq Kiyā, ed. A. Bahrami, Tehran, 2008, pp. 131-166.  ‘Sassanians and Zoroastrians in China and Japan’ (in Persian), Jor’e bar Xāk: Memorial Volume of Prof. Dr. Yahyā Māhyār Navvābi , ed. M. Jaafari-Dehaghi, Tehran, 1387 (2008), pp. 25-41.  ‘Linguistic Peculiarities of the Persian Diatessaron’ (in Persian), Āyene-ye Mirās 42 , 1387 (2008), pp. 7-23.  ‘The Bilingual Sino-Pahlavi Inscription of Xī’ān Revisited’, Journal of Iranian Studies (Iran Kenkyū), Osaka University, vol. IV, 2008, pp. 336-357.  ‘Parsi Sanskrit’, in: Indic across the Millennia: From the Rigveda to Modern Indo- Aryan (14 th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto, Japan, September 1 st –5th , 2009, Proceedings of the Linguistic Section), ed. J. S. Klein and K. Yoshida, Bremen, pp. 1-8.  ‘The Pahlavi Inscription on Stone Crosses’ (in Persian), Āyene-ye Mirās 45 , 1388 (2009), pp. 187-199.

5  ‘Iranian and Indian Languages in Contact’, Journal of the Research Institute for World Languages , Osaka University, no. 1, 2009, pp. 35-48.  ‘Darius and the Bisotun Inscription: A New Interpretation of the Last Paragraph of Column IV’, Journal of Persianate Studies , no. 2, 2009, Leiden, pp. 44-61.  ‘古代イラン文化のダイワ/デーウ「悪魔」’、イランとイスラム。文化と 伝統を知る、森茂男編、東京、春風社、二〇一〇、 ５５－６６。[‘Kodai Iran Bunka no Daiwa/Dēu «Akuma»’, Iran to Isuramu. Bunka to Dentō o Shiru , Mori Shigeo-hen, Tōkyō, Shunpusha, 2010, pp. 55-66.]  ‘New Light on the Middle Persian-Chinese Bilingual Inscription from Xi'an’, in: The Persian Language in History , ed. M. Maggi and P. Orsatti, Wiesbaden, 2011, pp. 105-115.  ‘Goštāsp’ (in Persian), Ferdowsi and the Šāhnāma , ed. E. Sa’ādat, Tehran, 1390 (2011), pp. 639-649.  ‘The Name of Cyrus’ (in Persian), Kuroš va Zul-Qarnayn , ed. A. Bahrami, Tehran, 1390 (2011), pp. 63-74.  ‘On Some Sassanian and Arab-Sassanian Coin and Seal Inscriptions’ (in Persian), Āyene-ye Mirās 48, 1390 (2011), pp. 73-89.  ‘Ancient Iranian Poetic Metres’, in: Indian and Persian Prosody and Recitation , ed. H. Nagasaki, Delhi, 2012, pp. 3-24.  ‘The History of Writing in Iran’ (in Persian), Xat va Nezāmhā-ye Neveštāri dar Ĵahān-e Eslām, Tehran, 1391 (2012), pp. 45-68.  ‘The History of Writing in India’ (in Persian), Xat va Nezāmhā-ye Neveštāri dar Ĵahān-e Eslām, Tehran, 1391 (2012), pp. 69-81.  ‘The Beginning of Coinage in Iran’ (in Persian), Tārix va Ĵoqrāfiyā 178 , 1391 (2012), pp. 2-9.  ‘Two Newly-Found Seals of Mu’āwiyya b. Abī Sufyān’ (in Persian), Gozāreš-e Mirās , Year 6, No. 3-4, 1391 (2012), pp. 26-27.  ‘An Indo-European Insect in Iranian Languages and Dialects’ (in Persian), Journal of Iranian Languages and Dialects 2 , 1392 (2013), pp. 27-33.  ‘India as Reflected in the Šāhnāma of Ferdowsi’ (in Persian), The Šāhnāma in the Subcontinent , ed. M. R. Nasiri, Tehran, 1392 (2013), pp. 3-14.  ‘Another sipihr in the Šāhnāma ’ (in Persian), Proceedings of the Conference on the Millennium of the Šāhnāma , ed. M. Ĵ. Yāhaqqi, Tehran, 1392 (2013), pp. 289-295.  ‘The Coins of ’Abū Muslim of Khorāsān’ (in Persian), Dāneš va Āzādegi (Festschrift for Prof. Mohammad-Rezā Rāšed-Mohassel) , ed. M. Ĵ. Yāhaqqi, S. Sāket and Ā. Akbari Mafākher, Tehran, 1393 (2014), pp. 663-667.  ‘A New Look at the Coins Citing Imām Ri ḍā as the Heir Apparent to the Abbasid Caliph al-Ma’mūn’ (in Persian), Ĵašn-Nāme-ye Āyat Allāh Rezā Ostādi , ed. R. Jafarian, Qum, 1393 (2014), pp. 397-406.  ‘The Coins of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna’ (in Persian), Proceedings of the International Conference on Ghazna and Persian Language and Literature , ed. M. Dabir-Moqaddam, Tehran, 1394 (2015), pp. 195-233.  ‘Pomegranate: From Iran to Japan (A Linguistic Investigation)’ (in Persian), Journal of Iranian Studies (Iran Kenkyū), Osaka University, vol. 12 (2016), pp. 103-118.  ‘The Linguistic History of Rayy up to the Early Islamic Period’, Der Islam 93 (2), 2016, pp. 403-412.  ‘Ālāxun Vālāxun’ (in Persian), Iranshahr-e Emrooz 4, 2016, pp. 15-17.  ‘Diglossia and Persian Language Education’ (in Persian), Journal of Iranian Studies (Iran Kenkyū), Osaka University, vol. 13, 2017, pp. 42-57.

6  ‘Three Etymological Notes’, in: Studia Philologica Iranica: Gherardo Gnoli Memorial Volume , ed. E. Morano, E. Provasi and A. V. Rossi, Roma, 2017, pp. 17- 22.  ‘A Brief Survey of Sanskrit Word-Formation Processes’, Frontier of Foreign Language Education , Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Osaka (Japan), vol. 1, 2018, pp. 353-358.  ‘The Memorial of Zarēr Reconsidered’ (in Persian), Journal of Iranian Studies (Iran Kenkyū), Osaka University, vol. XIV, 2018, pp. 57-65.  ‘The Beginning of Grammar Studies in the Indian Subcontinent and Panini’s Grammar’ (in Persian), Dastur-Nevisi dar Šebh-e Qārre , ed. S. Panāhi, Tehran, 1398 (2019), pp. 33-41.  ‘King of the Birds in Ancient Iran’ (in Persian), Journal of Iranian Studies (Iran Kenkyū), Osaka University, vol. XV, 2019, pp. 86-105.  ‘A Historical Study of Persian Plural Markers’ (in Persian), Frontier of Foreign Language Education , Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Osaka (Japan), vol. 2, 2019, pp. 83-93.  ‘The Commemorative Coin of Wahbarz, the Fratarak of Pārs’, in: Iranian Studies in Honour of Adriano V. Rossi , ed. S. Badalkhan, G. P. Basello, and M. de Chiara, Napoli, 2019, pp. 769-778.  ‘Hargbed: A Sasanian Title Revisited’, イラン研究 [Iran Kenkyū ], Osaka University, vol. XVI, 2020, pp. 65-76.

9. Articles Published in Persian Encyclopaedias A) In the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia :  Baluchi (Language, vol. 12, pp. 520-522)  Bazaar (Etymology of the Word, vol. 11, pp. 114-115)  Bihāri (Dialects, vol. 13, pp. 106-108)  Burushaski (Language, vol. 12, pp. 37-38)  Čāp (Etymology of the Word, vol. 19, pp. 179-180)  Iran: Languages and Scripts (1. Iranian Languages, vol. 10, pp. 544-551; 2. Non- Iranian Languages, vol. 10, pp. 551-557)  Jādu (Etymology of the Word, vol. 17, pp. 229-230)  Magic in Ancient Iran (vol. 17, pp. 230-235)  Pahlavi (Language and Literature, vol. 14, pp. 79-91)  Pāmir Dialects (vol. 13, pp. 548-549)  Pan IJābi (Language, vol. 13, pp. 715-716)  Parāči (Language, vol. 13, pp. 577-578)  Parthian (Language and Literature, vol. 13, pp. 502-505)  Translation from Sanskrit and Pahlavi into Arabic (vol. 15, pp. 24-33)  Turkic (Languages, vol. 15, pp. 193-197)  Turkmen (Language, vol. 15, pp. 179-180)

B) In the Persian Encyclopaedia :  Abzaxyā (vol. 1, p. 132)  Ardavān (Manichaean Missionary, vol. 2, p. 357)  Aryan (Languages, vol. 2, pp. 631-635)  Nominal Inflection in Old and Middle Iranian Languages (vol. 3, pp. 769-772)  (Language, vol. 2, pp. 539-540)

7  Oroetes (vol. 2, p. 643)

C) In the Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam :  Tocharian (Language, vol. 6, pp. 693-695)  History of Writing in India (vol. 15, pp. 592-598)  History of Writing in Iran (vol. 15, pp. 582-592)  Demons in Ancient Iran (vol. 18, pp. 627-629)

D) In the Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature :  āb (i.e. water, vol. 1, pp. 1-2)  ātaškade (i.e. fire-temple, vol. 1, pp. 10-13)  Parthian (Language, vol. 2, pp. 113-115)  Poetry in Ancient Iran (vol. 4, pp. 248-253)  (Language, vol. 4, pp. 757-761)

E) In the Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature in the Indian Subcontinent :  Aryans (vol. 1, pp. 75-79)  Pañcatantra (vol. 2, pp. 1034-1037)  Sanskrit (Language and Literature, vol. 3, pp. 557-561)  Sindhi (Language, vol. 4, pp. 103-105)  India as Reflected in the Šāhnāma of Ferdowsi (vol. 4, pp. 195-199)

F) In the Encyclopaedia of Iranian and Islamic Works :  Aržang (vol. 1, p. 186)  Living Gospel (vol. 1, p. 330)

G) In the Encyclopaedia of Iranian Folklore :  Creation in Manichaeism (vol. 1, pp. 162-165)

10. Reviews  Review of: D. N. MacKenzie, Iranica Diversa , ed. C.G. Cereti and L. Paul, 2 vols., Roma, Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO), 1999, in: Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān 2 , 2002, pp. 64-69.  Review of: Religious Themes and Texts of Pre-Islamic Iran and , ed. C.G. Cereti, M. Maggi and E. Provasi, Wiesbaden, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2003, in: Nāme-ye Farhangestān 26 , 1384 (2005), pp. 79-88.  Review of: F. Mojtabā ’i, Nahv-e Hendi va Nahv-e Arabi , Tehran, 1383 (2004), in: Nāme-ye Farhangestān 28 , 1384 (2005), pp. 122-127.  On the Japanese Translation of the Third Book of the Dēnkard, in: Gozāreš-e Mirās 19-20 , 1388 (2009), pp. 32-33.

11. Books  English Lexicology and Etymology (in Persian), Hamadan, 1377 (1998).  A Grammar of Parthian (Arsacid Pahlavi) (in Persian), Tehran, 1381 (2002).  Editor of the Majmu’e-ye Maqālāt-e Naxostin Hamandiši-ye Guyeš-šenāsi-ye Irān (i.e. Proceedings of the First Seminar of Iranian Dialectology ), Tehran, 1381 (2002).  Rāhnamā-ye Zabānhā-ye Irāni (Persian Translation of Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum ), 2 vols., Tehran, 1382 (2003), 2 nd ed. 1388 (2009), 3 rd ed. 1390 (2011).

8  The Revāyat of Ādur-Farrōbay ī Farroxzādān (Transcription, Translation, Commentary and Glossary), Tehran, 1384 (2005).  An Introduction to Sanskrit (in Persian), vol. 1, Tehran, 1384 (2005).  A Manual of Parthian (Arsacid Pahlavi) (in Persian), Tehran, 1385 (2006), 2 nd ed. 1388 (2009).  History of Iranian Languages (in Persian), Osaka (Japan), 2009, 2 nd ed. Tehran, 1388 (2009).  The Sutra of the Causes and Effects of Actions (in Persian), Tehran, 1388 (2009), 2nd ed. 1392 (2013).  A Thematic Lexicon of Ancient Iranian Languages , vol. 1 (Parts of the Body; Names of Animals), Tehran, 1390 (2011).  A Thematic Lexicon of Ancient Iranian Languages , vol. 2 (Plants and Related Words; Foods and Drinks), Tehran, 1391 (2012).  An Introduction to Sanskrit (in Persian), vols. 1-2 (Basic Lessons, Grammar, Texts and Lexicon), Tehran, 1391 (2012).  Editor of the Etymological Notes of the Farhang-e Ĵāme-’e Zabān-e Fārsi (i.e. A Comprehensive Dictionary of Persian ), vol. 1, Tehran, 1392 (2013).  Chief Editor of Ancient Iranian Studies Series , of which 8 volumes have so far been published by the Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia.  The Islamic Coins of Iran: From the Beginning to the Rise of the Seljuqs , Tehran, 1393 (2014).  Middle Persian Historical Phonology , Osaka, 2017.

12. Chief-Editor of the First Five Volumes of A Comprehensive History of Iran (20 volumes, Tehran: Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, 1393/2014, 3 rd ed. 1396/2017) and Author of the Following Chapters in This Series:  Arsacid Coins (vol. 3, pp. 397-441)  From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Iranian (vol. 5, pp. 17-52)  Old Iranian Languages (vol. 5, pp. 53-106)  The (vol. 5, pp. 177-190)  The Middle Persian Language (vol. 5, pp. 191-200)  Middle Persian Inscriptions (vol. 5, pp. 201-240)  The Khwarezmian Language (vol. 5, pp. 597-605)  A Brief History of the Persian Language (vol. 15, pp. 1-26)

13. Courses Offered at the University of Tehran A) MA Courses  Ancient Iranian Culture  Introduction to General Linguistics  Historical and Comparative Linguistics  History of Iranian Culture  History of Iranian Languages  History of the Persian Language  Old Persian  Old Persian Inscriptions  The Avestan Language  Avesta 1: Widēwdād  Avesta 2: Yašts 1  Avesta 3: Yašts 2  Middle Persian

9  Inscriptional Middle Persian  Sanskrit 1  Sanskrit 2  Sogdian  Parthian

B) PhD Courses  Sanskrit 1  Sanskrit 2  Sanskrit 3: Rig Veda  Avesta 1: Yasna  Avesta 2: Yasna Haptaŋhāiti  Avesta 3: Gāθās  Inscriptions of Ancient Iran  Middle Persian Inscriptions

(In addition to the above-mentioned courses, more than 30 MA and 20 PhD dissertations concerning different aspects of Iranian history, linguistics and culture, have so far been written and defended under my supervision)

14. Teaching at Foreign Universities  Visiting Professor of Iranian Studies, Osaka University of Foreign Studies and the Research Institute for World Languages of Osaka University (2007-2009)  Instructor of Middle Persian in the Summer School of Hamburg University, Germany (12-23 August 2013)  Professor of Iranian Studies, Osaka University (2015-now) [Courses offered at Osaka University: Introduction to Iranian Linguistics, Old Persian, Middle Persian, History of Iranian Culture (1), History of Iranian Culture (2), Persian Conversation, Reading Classical and Modern Persian Texts]

15. Research Project  The Parthian Coins of Malek National Museum of Iran (Contract Number: 16101, dated: 15/09/1393 [06/12/2014]).  Gathering Materials for a Prospective Etymological Study of Selected Synonyms in Persian and the Other Principal Iranian Languages (Osaka University, approved date: 12/03/2020; finished: 07/08/2020).

E-mail: [email protected]

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