Ali B. Langroudi, M.A.

Ali B. Langroudi is a research assistant at the department of Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research interests focus on Persian Manuscripts as well as the literature of Persian-speaking Christian and Jewish communities. He has written his PhD dissertation on the earliest Persian manuscripts of the Gospels. Apart from his scientific occupations, Langroudi is engaged in educational, organizational and administrative activities at the same University.

WORK EXPERIENCES

10/2018 – Present	Academic Coordinator, M.A. Course of Mediterranean Studies, University of Göttingen
04/2018 – Present	Lecturer and Research Assistant, Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Göttingen
09/2017 – 03/2018	Research Assistant, Perso-Indica Project, Department of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn
02/2017 - 03/2018	Translation Assistant, Redemptoris Mater, Cologne
09/2016 – 12/2016	Graduate Assistant in the project Macht und Herrschaft - Vormoderne Konfigurationen in transkultureller Perspektive, [Persian reports of the Early Mughal Period in India], Department of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn
10/2014 – 02/2015	The secretary of Foreign Students, University of Rome
09/2000 – 08/2010	Self-employment, Teheran, Iran

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

WiSe 2022/23	Landeskunde Iran (in German)
SoSe 2022	Persian-speaking Jews and Their Literature
WiSe 2021/22	Syriac Literature in Persia

SoSe 2021	Prophets in Persian Literature
WiSe 2020/21	Pre-Modern Persian Translation of the Bible (Joint Classroom)
SoSe 2020	The Contribution of Modern Persian to World Literature
WiSe 2019/20	Landeskunde Iran (in German)
SoSe 2019	An Introduction to the History of Conversion in Iran
WiSe 2018/19	The History of Christianity in Persia
SoSe 2018	Kulturelle und religiöser Traditionen iranischer Gesellschaften

PUBLIC BENEFIT TEACHING

10/2020

Reading Persian Scripts and Manuscripts, Online Course on Social Media

10/2019

Reading Persian Scripts and Manuscripts, Online Course on Social Media

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE

05/2022 Academic Organizer of the workshop Tanslation as Intercultural and Interreligious Contact Zone. A Jerusalem-Göttingen workshop in collaboration with Dr. Julia rubanovich, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

08/2019 Academic assistant and Lecturer at: Working in an Indian Archive: Indo-Persian Records from Hyderabad, at MANU University of Hyderabad, India, organized by the institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen

08/2018 Academic assistant and Lecturer at: Reading and Analysing Indo-Persian Documents, University of Göttingen, Germany

PUBLICATIONS

2022 2021	"How Exactly DiD Mary Conceive Jesus by the Holy Spirit: A Philological Approach to the Reconstruction of the Pneymatology of the Sogdian Christians", in Silk Road Traces, ed. Li Tang, Dietmar W. Winkler (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2022) Recension on: Christian Windler’s Missionare in Persien - H-Soz-Kult
2020	Questioning the Reliability of the Evangelists - Mélanges de l'Institut dominicain d'études orientales, No. 35
2019	Nativity of Mary, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol. 17, De Gruyter
2016	Fereydūn, Encyclopedia of Anthropology of Iran
2015	Zaʿfar.i Ǧinnī, Encyclopedia of Anthropology of Iran
2009	ʿĀšurā.qadīm dar Mihrān.i Tāliqān, a monography of a Shiite ritual and its historical development
2001	Ganǧnāma.yi Wilāyat.i Bīa.Pīš, treatises on religion and culture in Northern Iran, 2 Volumes

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

10/2019	Chapter Divisions of the Persian Gospels of Jerome Xavier, Conference “From Cultural Translation to Interreligious Controversy,” Münster, Germany
06/2019	On the Holy Spirit in the Sogdian Language, 6^th Salzburg International Conference on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, Almaty, Kazakhstan
06/2018	The Gospel of Matthew: The Missionary Gospel in Persia, “Scripture, Prayer and Worship in the History of Missions and World Christianity,” Yale-Edinburgh Group, The University of Edinburgh, School of Divinity, Edinburgh, UK
04/2018	“Les interactions entre chiʿites duodécimains et chrétiens: histoire, théologie, literature,” Institut Catholique de Paris, Paris, France
02/2018	A Persian Adaptation of the Vedāntasara: A Combination of Platonism, Hinduism and Islam, the 5^th Perso-Indica conference, Bonn, Germany
12/2017	In Search of the Lost Gospel of Matthew: The Survey of a 16^th-century Persian Manuscript, Lecture at the Institute of the Centre of World Christianity, University of SOAS, London, UK
10/2017	The Persian Translation of the Gospels in Rome and Persia: A Survey along the Safavid Dynasty, the 1^st International Doctoral Colloquium: “Transnational Academic Exchange and Mutual Research Contacts,” Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
05/2017	In Search of the Lost Gospel of Matthew: The Survey of a 16^th-century Persian Manuscript, Dies Academicus, University of Bonn, Germany
11/2014	Medieval Calendar in Europe, University of Rome, Italy
02/2013	Calculation of Easter along the History of Christian Calendar, University of Rome, Italy

EDUCATION

10/2018 - Present	PhD candidate at the department of Iranian Studies, Georg-August-University, Göttingen
10/2015 – 07/2016	Ecumenical Studies, M.A., Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Bonn
10/2013 – 07/2015	Historical Religious Sciences, M.A., Department of History – Culture - Religion, la Sapienza, University of Rome
2013	Winner of the degree award of the region Lazio
09/2010 – 09/2013	History, Culture and Religion, B.A., Department of History – Culture - Religion, la Sapienza - University of Rome

ONLINE COURSES

08/2020	“Syriac, I,” Beth Mardutho, USA
07/2018	“The Qur’an between Judaism and Christianity,” University of Nottingham, UK
09/2017	“A Journey through Western Christianity: from Persecuted Faith to Global Religion (200 - 1650),” Yale University, USA
06/2017	“Philosophy, Science and Religion,” University of Edinburgh, Scotland
06/2017	“Religion and Conflict,” University of Groningen, the Netherlands
09/2016	“Christianity Through its Scriptures,” University of Harvard, USA
09/2016	“Islam Through its Scriptures,” University of Harvard, USA

LANGUAGE COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

08/2019	“Cultural Translation,” 43^rd International Wolfenbüttel Summer School, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
07/2017	“Christian Arabic,” workshop at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Münster, Germany
04/2017	“Persian Manuscripts in India,” workshop at the Department of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
07/2014	“Galician Culture and Language,” Royal College of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
07/2013	“Galician Culture and Language,” Royal College of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
09/2012	“Pahlavi Manuscripts (Middle Persian Texts),” International summer school on Pahlavi papyrology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Gilaki: Mother tongue

Persian: Native

Italian: Fluent

English: Fluent

German: Fluent

Arabic: Intermediate

Syriac: Intermediate