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Thomas Benfey
University of Tuebingen
Occupation
Researcher
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Discipline
History
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Iranian Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Islamic Studies
History Of Religion
Geographic Areas of Interest
Central Asia
Iran
Iraq
Specialties
Sasanian Iran
Zoroastrianism
Education
PhD | 2020 | Near Eastern Studies | Princeton University
MA | 2014 | Religion | SOAS
BA | 2012 | Classics | Yale
Abstracts
“Poverty” and the “Poor” in Sasanian Zoroastrian Discourse Astrological History and a Supposedly Sasanian Calendrical Reform in Early ʿAbbāsid Iraq The Arkand and the Reception of Indian Astronomy in the Sasanian and Early Islamic Empires