Ashk Dahlén

Ashk Dahlén is Associate Professor (docent) in Iranian Languages and his field of study is primarily related to New Persian philology. Among his research interests are classical Persian literature, Iranian cultural history, mythology, religions, and historical continuities between ancient and medieval Iran.

Ashk Dahlén completed his PhD program in Iranian Languages at Uppsala University in 2002. Since then he has conducted postdoctoral research on Persian literature and the cultural history of the Iranian world in various contexts. His publications in the field of Persian literature primarily concern questions related to allegorical-mystical language, holy foolishness, mirror-for-princes, and national history. He has also published a descriptive grammar on modern Persian in Swedish, which includes detailed chapters on phonology, morphology and syntax, and provides a comprehensive look at the principles of the Persian language and its social and regional variation.