About the Author

Touraj Daryaee, Ph.D. (1999), UCLA, is Professor of Iranian History and the Persianate World at UC Irvine. He has published monographs and many articles on ancient and late antique Iranian world, including Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity: The Bahari Lecture Series at the University of Oxford (2018).


Khodadad Rezakhani, Ph.D. (2010), UCLA, is a postdoc researcher at the Institute for Area Studies, University of Leiden. He has published a monograph and articles on West and Central Asia late antique and early medieval period, including Reorienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity (Edinburgh UP, 2018).