Prof. Richard Foltz, PhD

Education

PhD (Harvard University)

Richard Foltz is a cultural historian specializing in the broader Iranian world. He has published 12 books and over one hundred articles, and his work has appeared in over a dozen languages. His most recent book is The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus (Bloomsbury Publishers, 2022). 

Research interests

Iran
Central Asia
Caucasus
Silk Road
Tajiks
Ossetia
Mughal India
Religions of Iran

Traditions

Islam
Zoroastrianism
Yezidism
Mithraism
Manichaeism
Uatsdin

The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2021.

A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2019.

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)