Dr Omid Behbahani
Associate Professor in Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages
Research Interest
Comparative Literature of Iran from ancient to modern period
Recent Publication
• 2020: شعر مادرم سیمین» )My Mother’s Poetry(, وزن دنیا(vazn-e dunya(, No. 9, pp. 134-136.


• 2019: “Manichaean Living Self reflected in Persian mystical poetry”, Iran Namag, Vol. 4, No. 3-4 (Fall/Winter), Toronto, Canada.

Courses Taught
• 1998-2020: Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian Texts of Turfan, Institute for Humanities and Cultural studies, Tehran, Iran. 1998-2020.
• 2014-2017: Persian Language and Literature,
• 2014-2017: History of Persian Art, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• 2004-2007: Art in the Classical Persian Texts, Azzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
• 2008-2009: Persian Language and Literature at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

• 2014 a.  «تمثیلی مانوی بر پایۀ الگوی  آفرینش در متن­های فارسی میانه» (A Manichaean Parable based on the Myth of Cosmogony in Middle Persian), Zabānshenākht, Vol. 4, No.7, Journal of Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies for Linguistic Studies, pp.15-28, Tehran.

 

• 2014 b. “An Introduction to Manichaeism: A Battle between Darkness and Light” Bulletin of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and central Asia), Australian National University,Vol.21, No1, p. 8.

 

• 2014 c. "مقایسۀ حکایت عاشق شدن پادشاه بر کنیزک با تمثیلی مانوی" (A Comparative Analysis of Rumi’s Masnavi with a Manichaean Allegory)”, Irān Nāmeh, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer 2014), 136-152, Tehran.

 

Comparative Literature : Based on Old and Middle Iranian Literature

Associate Professor, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies