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Areas of Interest

Judaism in Iran, Christianity in Iran, Persian versions of the Bible

Historical Periods of Interest

Medieval and Modern Era

 

Positions

2026 –

Research Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence Cross-Cultural Philology, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich

 

2025-2026

Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig

2024-2025

Scholarship Fellow at the Facutly of Theology, University of Trier

 

2018-2024

Research Associate at the Seminar for Iranian Studies, University of Göttingen

2016-2017

Assistant at the Department of Oriental and Asian Languages at the University of Bonn

 

Education

2025

PhD. Iranian Studies, University of Göttingen

 

2016

M.A. Ecumenical Studies, University of Bonn

 

2015

M.A. Religious Sciences, University of Rome (Sapienza)

Publication

 “Jesus’ Bat and Echoing Narratives,” in: Koen de Temmerman/Mara Nicosia (eds.), Ancient Narratives: Special Issue 20 (2026).
“The Earliest Persian Manuscript of the First Gospel: A Textual Genealogy of Codex Vat. pers. 4,” eDiss: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2025.
“A 14th-Century Writing Vademecum from Tabriz,” in: Catalin-Stefan Popa (ed.), Teaching and Learning the Norms of Life and Faith: Pedagogues, Educators, and their Heritage in Abrahamic Religions, Tübingen 2025, 461–484.
“Matthew 1:19a between the Persian Harmony and Vat. Ar. 13,” in: Parole de l’Orient 50 (2024), 169–207.
“The Colophon of the Psalter Ms. Paris, BnF, Suppl. Pers. 1. A Witness to the Writing of a Trans-Judeo-Persian Manuscript,” in: George A. Kiraz/Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Literary Snippets: A Colophon Reader, vol. 2, Piscataway 2024, 169–180.
“Yasharpour, Dalia, The Prince and the Sufi. The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Leiden/Bosten 2021,” in: Iranian Studies 57 (2024), 685–687.
“Windows into the World of Persian-Speaking West Syrians. A Study of Colophons in Three Early Persian Biblical Manuscripts,” in: George A. Kiraz/Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Literary Snippets: Colophons across Space and Time, Jg. 1, Piscataway 2023, 377–396.
“How Exactly Did Mary Conceive Jesus by the Holy Spirit? A Philological Approach to the Reconstruction of the Pneumatology of Sogdian Christians,” in: Li Tang/Dietrmar W. Winkler (eds.), Silk Road Traces: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, Wien 2022, 335–354.
“Mark 16 in the Persian Harmony of the Gospels,” in: Claire Clivaz et al. (eds.), COMSt Bulltin 8/2: The Transmission of Mark’s Endings in Different Traditions and Languages (2022), 581–602.
“Windler, Christian, Missionare in Persien. Kulturelle Diversität und Normenkonkurrenz im globalen Katholizismus (17.–18. Jahrhundert), Köln 2018,” in: H-Soz-Kult, 21. Januar 2021.
“Questioning the Reliability of the Evangelist. An 18th-Century Persian Translation of the Four Gospels by Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Ḫātūnābādī,” in: MIDÉO 35 (2020), 161–174.
“The Nativity of Mary: D. World Christianity,” in: Gary S. Helft/Nicole Rupschus (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, 17 (2019), 1131.