# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-rahim-shayegan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:26:54.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-rahim-shayegan"
name: "M. Rahim Shayegan"
slug: "m-rahim-shayegan"
description: "M. Rahim Shayegan is an Iranian-American historian of the ancient world. He is Professor of Iranian and the Ancient Near East and the Eleanor and Jahangir Amuzegar Chair in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)."
tagline: "American historian, Iranologist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           42.42
  momentum:             9.19431279620853
  historical:           3.281246666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  43
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Rahim_Shayegan"
    title: "M. Rahim Shayegan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%AD%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "رحیم شایگان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Шаеган, Рахим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111077247"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations