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Daniel Sheffield
Princeton University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
110 Jones Hall
Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08544
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Colonialism
History Of Religion
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Persian
South Asian Studies
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
India
Iran
Specialties
History Of Zoroastrianism In Iran And India
Timurid, Safavid, And Mughal Intellectual History
Minority Religious Communities In Iranian History
Languages
Persian (fluent)
Pahlavi (advanced)
Avestan (advanced)
Gujarati (advanced)
Sanskrit (intermediate)
French (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Kurmanji (intermediate)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2012 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Harvard University
BA | 2004 | Anthropology & Near Eastern Languages and Civi | Harvard University
MA | 2004 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Harvard University
Abstracts
Iran, the Mark of Paradise or the Land of Ruin? Approaches to Reading Two Parsi Zoroastrian Travelogues The Lord of the Planetary Court: Cosmic Aspects of Millennial Sovereignty in the Thought of Āẕar Kayvān and His Followers Toward a Social History of Late Pahlavi (Zoroastrian Middle Persian)