Prof. Dr. Kianoosh Rezania
Chair for History of Western Asian ReligionsKianoosh Rezania is professor for the History of West Asian Religions at the Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, the director of the Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion (GSMR) within the CRC 1475, and the PI of the longterm project “Zoroastrian Middle Persian: Digital Corpus and Dictionary (MPCD).” His main research interests cover history of Zoroastrianism, Middle Persian literature, and the development of the concepts of time and space in ancient and late antique Iran.
He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran 1998), an M.A. in Iranian Studies from the University of Tehran (2002) and a Ph.D. in Old Iranian Studies from the Georg-August University Göttingen (2008).
Kianoosh Rezania is the author of Die zoroastrische Zeitvorstellung: eine Untersuchung über Zeit- und Ewigkeitskonzepte und die Frage des Zurvanismus (Harrassowitz 2010), Die Raumkonzeptionen im älteren Zoroastrismus: kosmische, kultische und soziale Räume (Harrassowitz 2017), and the co-author of Religionsökonomie: Einführung für Studierende der Religionswissenschaft und Wirtschaftswissenschaften (UTB 2023).
His research interest includes history of Zoroastrianism, the Middle Persian literature, and the development of the concepts of time and space in the (late) antiquity.
Education
- Habilitation, Old Iranian Studies, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany, 2016
- Ph.D., Old Iranian Studies, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany, 2008
- M.A., Old Iranian Culture and Languages, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2002
- M.Sc., Computer Science, Sharif University of Technology, 1998
- B.Sc., Computer Science, Sharif University of Technology, 1996
Director of CERES Early Career Researchers' Program
Principal Investigator of How Sasanian Science and Literature passed on to the Muslims , CRC 1475 „Metaphors of Religion“ and Zoroastrian Middle Persian: Digital Corpus and Dictionary
Professor of Center for Religious Studies , CERES Directorate and CERES Teaching
Coordinator of History of Western Asian Religions
Project Leader of Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion and Subproject C05 [A04]
Cooperation Partner of NFDI4Memory
Advisor of Arcs of Time
Former Projects and Affiliations
Director of Käte Hamburger Kolleg
Individual Researcher of The Pahlavi-Literature in Its Context
Fellow of Käte Hamburger Kolleg
Colleague of Käte Hamburger Kolleg