Professor Dr Shervin Farridnejad

Current Projects

Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefatcs’ (2019–2025)

• Head of the MA programme ‘Manuscript Cultures’
• Project lead RFI08: Zoroastrian Scribes and Scribal Practices During the Safavid Period (1501–1722) (2023–2025)
• Organiser of the seminar series on ‘Persianate Written Artefacts’ (in Persian)

Affiliated Projects

• The Book of Jāmāsp the Sage (2020–2026)

Links

• Personal Website

Main Research Focal Points

• Antique and Late Antique Iranian Cultural and Religious History
• Persianate Cultural and Religious History
• Zoroastrian Religion, Rituals and Literature
• Dynamics and interdependencies between Zoroastrian and non-Zoroastrian in the (early) Islamic Period
• Zoroastrian Art and Iconography
• Old and Middle Iranian Philology and Literature
• Persianate Manuscript Cultures and Codicology
• Judeo-Persian Literatur