Research

Dr. Ali B. Langroudi

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Affiliated Researcher

balaeilangroudi(at)dubnow.de

Working at the Dubnow Institute as a Research Associate in the Ignaz-Goldziher-Program from 2025 to 2026; currently affiliated researcher in the research unit »Politics.«

He earned his bachelor's degree and first M.A. in Historical-Religious Studies from the University of Rome and his second M.A. in Ecumenical Studies from the University of Bonn. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen with a dissertation on the earliest Persian manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. In recent years, he has worked as a research associate at the Department of Iranian Studies and coordinator of the M.A. program »Cultures and Languages ​​of the Mediterranean« at the University of Göttingen, and as a scholarship holder at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Trier.

Research Project

Religious and Social Contact Zones between Jews and Muslims in Early Modern Isfahan

Research Interests

  • Judaism and Christianity in post-Islamic Iran
  • Persian biblical manuscripts

Publications

Monographs

The Earliest Persian Manuscript of the First Gospel: A Textual Genealogy of Codex Vat. pers. 4, eDiss: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2025.

Essays and Articles

Jesus' Bat and Echoing Narratives, in: Koen de Temmerman, Mara Nicosia (ed.), Ancient Narratives: Special Issue 20 (2026).

A 14th-Century Writing Vademecum from Tabriz, in: Catalin-Stefan Popa (Hg.), Teaching and Learning the Norms of Life and Faith: Pedagogues, Educators, and their Heritage in Abrahamic Religions, Tübingen 2025, 461–484.

How Exactly Did Mary Conceive Jesus by the Holy Spirit? A Philological Approach to the Reconstruction of the Pneumatology of Sogdian Christians, in: Li Tang/Dietrmar W. Winkler (eds.), Silk Road Traces: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, Vienna 2022, 335–354.

Matthew 1:19a between the Persian Harmony and Vat. Ar. 13, in: Parole de l’Orient 50 (2024), 169–207.

Mark 16 in the Persian Harmony of the Gospels, in: Claire Clivaz et al., COMSt Bulltin 8/2: The Transmission of Mark’s Endings in Different Traditions and Languages (2022), 581–602.

Questioning the Reliability of the Evangelist. An 18th-Century Persian Translation of the Four Gospels by Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Ḫātūnābādī, in: MIDÉO 35 (2020), 161–174.

The Colophon of the Psalter Ms. Paris, BnF, Suppl. Pers. 1. A Witness to the Writing of a Trans-Judeo-Persian Manuscript, in: George A. Kiraz/Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Literary Snippets: A Colophon Reader, vol. 2, Piscataway 2024, 169–180.

The Nativity of Mary: D. World Christianity, in: Gary S. Helft/Nicole Rupschus (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, 17 (2019), 1131.

Windows into the World of Persian-Speaking West Syrians. A Study of Colophons in Three Early Persian Biblical Manuscripts, in: George A. Kiraz/Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Literary Snippets: Colophons across Space and Time, Jg. 1, Piscataway 2023, 377–396.

Reviews

Yasharpour, Dalia, The Prince and the Sufi. The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Leiden/Bosten 2021, in: Iranian Studies 57 (2024), 685–687.

Windler, Christian, Missionare in Persien. Kulturelle Diversität und Normenkonkurrenz im globalen Katholizismus (17.–18. Jahrhundert), Köln 2018, in: H-Soz-Kult, 21 January 2021.