Khodadad Rezakhani

Rezakhani's interest in Central Asian history has also resulted in works concerned with the historiography of the Silk Road and its creation in 19th century Europe as part of colonial historiography. His denial of the concept of the Silk Road, reflected in his article on the subject, the Road that Never Was and is the basis of a forthcoming volume, Creating the Silk Road: Travel, Trade and Myth-Making (I.B. Tauris, forthcoming);. His monograph on the history of Central Asia, called ReOrienting the Sasanians, provided a political history of Central Asia (including Afghanistan and Transoxiana) from the Indo-Parthian period to the coming of Islam, and included the history of the Kushans, Iranian Huns, the Kidarites, Hephthalites, Nezak Shah, and the Western Turk Empire. In 2018, the book was the recipient of the Honourable Mention in the Ehsan Yarshater Book Award.

From 2014 to 2016, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung fellow at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Since 2016, he has been an associate research scholar and lecturer at Princeton University.

Rezakhani has also been involved in various projects for the academic study of late antique Iran and Central Asia, as well as Global Late Antiquity. He is the founder and manager of rotating Twitter accounts Tweeting Historians and Historians of Iran, which aim to promote the works of the historians of Iranian and global history by presenting their work in form of weekly tweets concerned with each scholar's research. He is also the founder and author of Iranologie.com, a site dedicated to the history of Iran since 1997.

Khodadad Rezakhani (Persian: خداداد رضاخانی, Persian pronunciation: [xo̯dʌdʌd rɛzʌxʌni] born 1976) is an Iranian historian of late antique Central and West Asia. He has been associate research scholar at The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Princeton University from 2016 to 2020.