@ No usage of the name “Razmafzar” is allowed without Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani’s permission. Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani is the founder and owner of Khorasani Consulting specializing in executive coaching, leadership, public speaking and intercultural training. Dr. Khorasani has conducted seminars in executive coaching, leadership, and intercultural training in the banking, insurance and law firm and real estate industries. He has taught across Europe in English, German, and Spanish in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland and UK. Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani is the award-winning author who won the prestigious awards of the Book Prize of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2012 for his book Lexicon of Arms and Armor from Iran: A Study of Symbols and Terminology and the Book Prize of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2009 for his book Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period. His book Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period (published 2006) features a detailed analysis of Iranian arms and armor from pre-historical times to the end of the Qajar rule in Iran. This book is the first of its kind and is based on over 800 primary and secondary sources, and features a detailed analysis of over 520 artifacts from ten Iranian museums. Some carefully selected items from private collections are also featured in this book. The book won the prize "The World Book Prize of the Islamic Republic of Iran" in the field of Iranian Studies in February 2009. Dr. Khorasani is also the author of the book Lexicon of Arms and Armor from Iran: A Study of Symbols and Terminology  (published 2010) that features the inventory of arms and armor of another Iranian museum "The Cultural Institution of the Museums of Bonyad." The lexicon provides a sound and solid base of terminology of arms and armor in Persian by presenting terminology in all of the major types of the Persian language, namely the Avestan, the Old Persian, the Middle Persian (Pahlavi), and the New Persian. Next to each entry, which is written in its phonetic alphabet, the same term in the original script is provided as well. - Dr. Khorasani is also the author of the book Antique Oriental and Arab Weapons and Armour: The Streshinskiy Collection (published 2010). The Streshinsky collection of antique arms and armor contains 140 items from different Muslim countries spread over a wide geographical area. These items can be divided into 32 pieces from North, West and East Africa (items from Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Western Sudanic Africa, Sahara, Somalia and Ethiopia), 9 items from the Arabian Peninsula (items from Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen) and 1 item from Iraq, 29 items from the Ottoman Empire, 4 items from Caucasus, 18 items from Iran and 3 items from Afghanistan, 42 items from India and 2 items from Indonesia. Dr. Moshtagh Khorasani has written over eighty one print articles, lexicon entries, book contributions, auction house and exhibition catalogs and book reviews related to arms and armor from Iran in 25 print journals and magazines, including in an encyclopedia, one in a book in English, as well as in German, Spanish, French and Persian for American, Argentinian, Austrian, British, Canadian, French, German, Indian, Iranian, Italian, South Korean and Spanish magazines. These magazines include: peer-reviewed academic magazines such as Gladius (University of Madrid, Spain), Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas (University of Leon, Spain), The International Society of Eastern Sports & Physical Education (University of Suwon, South Korea), Antiguo Oriente (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires), Quaderni Asiatici (Milan, Italy), Journal of Iranian Studies (University of Kerman, Iran), Journal of Archaeology of the Islamic Azad University of Abhar (University of Abhar, Iran) and the Journal of Asian Martial Arts (USA) (and also Festschrift for Professor Gerd Fritz); as well as military history and history journals, such as Classic Arms and Militaria (UK), Memoria la Historia de Cerca (Spain), Militär & Geschichte (Germany), Karfunkel (Germany) and Pallasch: Zeitschrift für Militärgeschichte (Austria); and museum journals, archaeology journals and exhibition catalogues, such as Majele-ye Muzeha (Iran), and Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte (Germany); as well as in forging, sword, knife and archery magazines, such as Hephaistos (Germany), Tactical Knives (USA), Messer Magazin (Germany), Schwert und Klinge (Germany), Majale-ye Jangafzar (Iran), and Tradionelle Bogenschießen (Germany); and in cultural and science magazines, such as Persian Heritage (USA), Echo of Islam (Iran), Daneshmand (Iran) and La Revue de Téhéran (Iran, France); and Zoroastrian magazines, such as Parsiana (India) and Fezana Journal (Canada). Dr. Khorasani also wrote an article titled "Persian Swordmakers (Armeiros Persas)" in the book Rites of Power: Oriental Arms (Rituais de Poder: Armas Orientais) that was published in Portugal in 2010. Dr. Khorasani also wrote two entries for the peer-review encyclopedia "Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation" on historical Iranian martial arts and belief systems. Dr. Khorasani cooperated in identifying and describing over 60 artifacts for the exhibition "The Power of Iranian Steel: From Iron to the Crucible and the Crucible Steel" that took place in the Cultural Institute of Museums in Tehran. He wrote the exhibition catalog for that event and also wrote another catalog on the works of the contemporary Iranian smith Mohammad Reza Farajian, the son of the late master swordsmith Ostad Haj Hosseyn Farajian. He also assisted in cataloguing four items for the auction house catalog of Bonhams & Butterfields. Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani wrote his doctoral thesis on the analysis of conflicts and controversies in the field of English linguistics titled "Controversies in Online Discussion Forums: A Pragmatic Analysis" under Professor Dr. Andreas H. Jucker at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany. His doctoral thesis was published as a book titled The Development of Controversies: From The Early Modern Period to Online Discussion Forums by Peter Lang Verlag Bern in the series "Linguistics Insights" edited by Professor Mauricio Gotti in 2009. Dr. Moshtagh Khorasani holds a Masters degree (Diplom- Anglist) in English linguistics and Business Administration and a minor in Spanish from the University of Giessen (Germany). His thesis was titled "Eliciting Information: The Form and Function of Questions in Marketing Research Questionnaires". He also studied at the University of Wisconsin (USA) and Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). Dr. Moshtagh Khorasani is a specialist in the arms and armor of the Middle East with a special emphasis on Iranian arms and armor. He has done extensive research into the primary and secondary sources on the subject of Iranian arms and armor, the military history of Iran, images and decoration on arms and armor, different methods of casting bronze and iron weapons, the casting of bronze and the forging of steel weapons, and the terminology related to Persian arms and armor. He has analyzed the inventories of eleven Iranian arms and armor museums and analyzed over 200 manuscripts searching for arms and armor related terms and terminology. Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani is a research member of the International Society of Eastern Sports and Pan Asian Society of Sports of Suwon University, South Korea, being responsible within that society for the traditional martial arts in Iran. He is also a contributing editor of InYo: The Journal of Alternative Perspectives on the Martial Arts and Sciences (Canada). Dr. Moshtagh Khorasani is an instructor in iaijutsu and kenjutsu. He has an instructor level in Kungfu Toa (shalband zabz; fourth dan black belt) and is also a holder of a black belt second dan in full-contact karate, and a black belt second dan in Nam Wa Pai, and has extensive experience in grappling arts such as wrestling and BJJ and in international martial arts competitions. Currently, Dr. Khorasani is working on reviving Persian swordsmanship and the traditional martial arts of Iran, and is specially interested in transferring ancient leadership tenets from strategy books and swordsmanship to modern day leadership seminars and training. Impressum Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani M. Moshtagh Consulting Frankfurt a.M. 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