Professor, Religions and Cultures

Biography    Selected publications    Recent graduate seminars and reading courses   

Education

PhD (Harvard University)

Richard Foltz is a cultural historian specializing in the broader Iranian world. His most recent book is Iran in World History (Oxford University Press, 2016), which has also been published in a Persian edition (Entesharat-e Dibayeh, 2016). He has recently completed a book entitled A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East, which will be published by I.B. Tauris in 2019.

Research interests

Iranian History
Central Asia
Tajiks
Silk Road
Mughal India
Religions of Iran

Traditions

Islam
Zoroastrianism
Yezidism
Mithraism
Manichaeism

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Iran in World History, Oxford University Press, 2016.

Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, Oneworld Publications, 2013.

Religions of the Silk Road: Premodern Patterns of Globalization, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Ancient Iran (2016)
Religions of the Silk Road (2015)