Hossein Najari

Hossein Najari serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at Shiraz University's Faculty of Literature and Humanities since 2008, concurrently holding a Research Associate position for Subproject A04 of the Collaborative Research Center "Metaphors of Religion" (SFB 1475) at Ruhr University Bochum's Center for Religious Studies (CERES).

His academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Iranian Studies from EPHE (Section of Religious Sciences), Sorbonne University, Paris (2008)
• M.A. in Ancient Iranian Languages from Shiraz University, Shiraz (1999)
• B.A. in English Translation from Islamic Azad University, Tehran (1996)

Najari's research centers on Ancient Iranian Languages with Avestan as his primary specialization, extending to Zoroastrian Religious Studies, Iranian Mythology, and pre-Islamic History of Iranian Languages and Literature. His current CERES fellowship investigates conceptual frameworks of "Othering" in Avestan texts, analyzing linguistic structures and religious metaphors within ancient Zoroastrian contexts. This work bridges historical linguistics with religious studies through critical examination of primary sources.

As part of CERES' international research consortium at Ruhr University Bochum, he contributes philological expertise to Subproject A04 within the SFB 1475 framework, collaborating with scholars specializing in comparative religious metaphors across civilizations.