PhD: Iranian History 2008. Autumn, Department of Iranian Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Lóránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

The title of PhD thesis: The history of Tabaristān’s principalities in the first centuries of Islam before the Mongol period

MA: Iranian Studies 2001. (Department of Iranian Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Lóránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary)

MA: History 2001. (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Humanities, Piliscsaba, Hungary)

(Studies also in Arabistics and Classical Philology)

Current status:

Visiting research fellow, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London



Teaching experience

Part-time lecturer of Iranian History - Department of Iranian Studies, Faculty of Humanities of the Lóránd Eötvös University of Budapest between 2002 and 2006.

Part-time lecturer of Iranian and Central Asian History - Department of Inner Asian Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Lóránd Eötvös University of Budapest between 2004 and 2007

Part-time lecturer of Iranian Philology - Department of Indo-European Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Lóránd Eötvös University of Budapest between 2005 and 2010

Assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of Pécs University
Teacher of Persian at various language schools in Budapest, and freelance translator of Persian and Hungarian, 2000-2010
Associate professor, Head of Department of Ancient History, Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church (ww.kre.hu)


Grants and Scholarships:

Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran (1999, 2 months)

Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Italy (Erasmus, 2000, 6 months)

Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, visiting research fellowship (2013, 10 months)
Institute of Ismaili Studies, London visiting research fellowship (2014, 8 months)
Institute of Ismaili Studies, London visiting research fellowship (2015, 10 months)

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kegl-sandor

Iranian studies, Late Antique and Early Islamic History and Religious History of Iran and Central Asia, Mediaevel Peraian Historiography, History of the Caspian provinces, Tabaristan, Hungarian-Iranian relations

visiting research fellow, Institute of Ismaili Studies