- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Course location
- Berlin
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- The courses are held in English (100%). The Master's thesis needs to be written in English.
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter and summer semester
- Application deadline
- Summer semester: 1 December to 15 February
Winter semester: 24 April to 15 August
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- None
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- The aim of the MA Iranian Studies is to make the students familiar with various aspects of Iranian languages, cultures, history, and religions from antiquity to the late antique era. In this respect, the Iranian cultural domain extends over a large part of Western Asia; it far exceeds the current political borders and includes the modern states of Iran, Afghanistan, the western regions of Pakistan, the “republics” of the old Soviet central Asia, and areas within the Caucuses. Other peripheral areas came under strong Iranian influence at other times. The Median, Persian, and Parthian dynasties extended their empires westward into the ancient Near East, the eastern Mediterranean world, and Egypt as well as northward into Azerbaijan and Armenia.