Curriculum Vita
Shokoufeh Taghi

1 Higher education degree (Tehran University)
1985 BA Judicial Law
2 Higher education degree (Uppsala University)
1994 MA Iranian Languages
3 Doctoral degree (Uppsala University)
2000 PhD Iranian Languages
4 Post Doctoral (Yale University)
2001-2002 Post-Doc Religious Studies
5 Previous positions (Gothenburg University)
1990-1995 Part-time Teaching in Pedagongen
6 Visiting Scholar (Columbia University)
1997-1998
7 Doctoral employment (Uppsala University)
1995-1999 Research and Part-time teaching in Iranian Languages
8 Educational Project (Board of Education)
2004-2005
To conduct a research project in the schools with social problems, and help young adults to recognize and verbalize their emotions in a constructive way.

List of Academic Publication (Books) 2009 The Meaning of Fortune in the Oral and Written Culture of Iranians, Ma’naye- Bakht dar Farhang-e Katbi va Shafahi-e Iranian 2008 Violence against Women in the History and Story, Zan Azari dar Ghesseha va Tarikh 2003 Do bale-kherad In Terhran (A Persian rendering of the Two Wings of Wisdom.) 2000 The Two Wings of Wisdom, Mysticism and Philosophy in the Resalat Ut-Tair of Ibn Sina List of Academic Publication (Articles) 2008-2013 in the Journal of Iranian Studies, New Series Editor Jalal Matini • Khedr, in Oral and Written culture • The Two Sacred Trees in the History and Story of Iranians • Iranian Folktales and the Ritual of Initiation for Boys and Girls • Four Feminine Symbols of Divine Fortune and Four Heroes in the Shahnameh • Zal, The Perfect Man in the Shahnamah • Deception, Reason and Wisdom in the Book of Kalileh va Demneh • A Comparison between the Ideas of Ibn Sina; as an Islamic philosopher and Rumi as a Sufi poet 2014 Oncoming Article • Farānak in the Šāhnāmeh; a Woman with Three Faces Online Academic articles 1. Psychotherapy in folk tales 2. Homa’s myth and Iranian Queen 3. Sexual rights and social power 4. Cultural foundations of sovereignty and the wildness in Iran 5. The hero in Iranian mythology and job training 6. Heroes rituals of transition 7. Prince and Monogamy 8. Iranian mythology and ritual of passage for young Boys 9. Two Trees in the Holy Bible and the Islamic texts. 10. Kings and Prophets 11. Two sacred trees in the ancient time 12. Zal as a husband and father or a Shaman 13. Zal the perfect man of epic 14. Vis and Ramin love story from a female perspective 15. Franak: a manifestation of maternal vigilance and wisdom in Shahnameh 16. Elias, Water of Life, Alexander 17. Khidr in the Qur'an and religious stories 18. Demonizing and the always Middle Ages 19. Ibn Sina's influence on Rumi 20. Ibn Sina, Hamedan and Isfahan 21. Ibn Sina in Gorgan, Rey 22. Avicenna of Bukhara 23. Sanctity of virginity in primitive religions 24. Human pain and alienation in the Sufi texts.

Iranian studies, religion, Psychology

Dr., independent researcher