Iran Colloquium: From “the Last Great War of Antiquity” to the “Futūḥāt”: West Asia in the Early Seventh Century AD

Khodadad Rezakhani is a global historian focusing on Central and West Asia in the first millennium CE. He is the author of ReOrienting the Sasanians(Edinburgh UP, 2017) and forthcoming volumes Creating the Silk Road: Travel, Trade, and Myth-Making (Bloomsbury) and Iran in the Early Medieval Period (One World). He is currently Research Scholar at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University, in the Netherlands.