EPISODE · Mar 14, 2024 · 46 MIN
S1E11: Achaemenid & Sasanian Empires - Persians or Iranians? Peoples Included & Excluded. Historian Explains
from Scholars Unravel Middle East · host Adel Aali, History Behind News Program
Were the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires Persian or Iranian? What's the significance of these terms in the context of the past? How about now? Or in the 20th century, when Persia officially changed its name to Iran? Were ancient tribes of Ukraine an Iranian people? 🚩About My Guest: Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani is a lecturer and a senior research fellow at Leiden University. He is a historian of Global Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, with a focus on Central and West Asia from 500-700 CE. His research focuses on the Sasanian and Early Islamic economy of the Near East. 📽️Subscribe to our YouTube channel 🖱️Support Our Program: We appreciate your financial support of our program. https://historybehindnews.com/support Adel Aali Host, Unravelling the Middle East Host, History Behind News Podcast Unravelling the Middle East podcast is a production of the History Behind News program. Image attribution: A Haft-Seen table in honor of Nowruz at the White House (Mon., Mar. 20, 2023) The Haft-Seen is an arrangement of 7 symbolic items, about which you can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haft-sin Music attributions: 1. Opening and closing music of the program: Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011. Music available on at https://freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/125654/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This music has been cut in shorter pieces and its volume has been adjusted in different portions of our program. 2. Background music to guest introduction: The Desert | The Grand Score https://www.free-stock-music.com/alexander-nakarada-the-desert.html The Desert | The Grand Score by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified. 3. Background music to promoting History Behind News episodes: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified.
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Were the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires Persian or Iranian? What's the significance of these terms in the context of the past? How about now? Or in the 20th century, when Persia officially changed its name to Iran? Were ancient tribes of Ukraine an Iranian people? 🚩About My Guest: Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani is a lecturer and a senior research fellow at Leiden University. He is a historian of Global Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, with a focus on Central and West Asia from 500-700 CE. His research focuses on the Sasanian and Early Islamic economy of the Near East. 📽️Subscribe to our YouTube channel 🖱️Support Our Program: We appreciate your financial support of our program. https://historybehindnews.com/support Adel Aali Host, Unravelling the Middle East Host, History Behind News Podcast Unravelling the Middle East podcast is a production of the History Behind News program. Image attribution: A Haft-Seen table in honor of Nowruz at the White House (Mon., Mar. 20, 2023) The Haft-Seen is an arrangement of 7 symbolic items, about which you can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haft-sin Music attributions: 1. Opening and closing music of the program: Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011. Music available on at https://freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/125654/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This music has been cut in shorter pieces and its volume has been adjusted in different portions of our program. 2. Background music to guest introduction: The Desert | The Grand Score https://www.free-stock-music.com/alexander-nakarada-the-desert.html The Desert | The Grand Score by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified. 3. Background music to promoting History Behind News episodes: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified.
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