“Five Courses” on Yashts of the Avesta
Kellens, Jean. 2016. Cinq Cours Sur les Yasts de l’Avesta. (Cahiers de Studia Iranica, 59). Paris: Peeters. This volume includes “five courses” devoted to the Yasts, that Jean Kellens held at the...
View ArticleSexuality in the Babylonian Talmud: Christian and Sasanian Contexts in Late...
Kiel, Yshai. 2016. Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud: Christian and Sasanian Contexts in Late Antiquity. New York: Cambridge University Press. Within this close textual analysis of the Babylonian...
View ArticleDance in Iran: Past and Present
Gholami, Saloumeh (ed.). 2016. Dance in Iran: Past and Present. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. Dance is one of the cultural topics facing some of the greatest challenges in Iran. Culturally, dance...
View ArticleYezidism and Yezidi Studies
Kreyenbroek, Philip G. & Khanna Omarkhali (eds.). 2016. Yezidism and Yezidi Studies in the early 21st century (Special Issue. Vol. 4, No 2, Kurdish Studies). London: Transnational Press. The...
View ArticleFigures of two kings on a late Sasanian coin
Shavarebi, Ehsan. 2016. “Eine spätsasanidische Münze mit zwei Prägeherren“, Schweizer Münzblätter (Gazette numismatique suisse/Gazzetta numismatica svizzera) 66 (263), 63-66.
View ArticleBulletin of the Asia Institute 26
Issue 26 of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute will be published in December. The information on this issue is not yet available on the journal’s website, but the content has been circulated. We are...
View ArticleThe Hidden Face of Surat
The Hidden Face of Surat: Exploring the History of a Cosmopolitan Centre, 1540-1750 Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Distinguished Professor and Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences, UCLA The Second...
View ArticleAlexander: Exegesis of common images
Briant, Pierre. 2016. Alexandre. Exégèse des lieux communs. Éditions Gallimard. As a well-known historian who has been dealing with Achaemenid history for decades, Pierre Briant has published several...
View ArticleA partial tree of Central Iranian
Korn, Agnes. 2016. A partial tree of Central Iranian. Indogermanische Forschungen 121(1). Relations within the Iranian branch of Indo-European have traditionally been modelled by a tree that is...
View ArticleInterpreting Repetitions in Avestan
Jügel, Thomas. 2016. Repetition Analysis Function (ReAF) II: Interpreting Repetitions in Avestan. Indogermanische Forschungen 121(1). 1–38. Up to this point, most editions of Avestan texts have been...
View ArticleChristianity in Central Asia
Dickens, Mark. 2015. Le christianisme syriaque en Asie centrale. In Borbone, Pier Giorgio & Pierre Marsone (eds.), Le christianisme syriaque en Asie centrale et en Chine (Études Syriaques 12),...
View ArticleArrian, the Second Sophistic, Xerxes, and the Statues of Harmodios and...
Müller, Sabine. 2016. Arrian, the second Sophistic, Xerxes, and the statues of Harmodios and Aristogeiton. In Svärd, Saana & Robert Rollinger (eds.), Cross-cultural Studies in Near Eastern History...
View ArticleThe Linguistic History of Rayy up to the Early Islamic Period
Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan. 2016. “The Linguistic History of Rayy up to the Early Islamic Period“, Der Islam 93(2), 403–412. The purpose of this paper is to give a short sketch of the linguistic history of...
View ArticlePersian Martyr Acts under King Yazdgird I
Herman, Geoffrey (ed.). 2016. Persian Martyr Acts under King Yazdgird I. (Persian martyr acts in Syriac: text and translation 5). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. This volume presents five vivid tales of...
View ArticleIranian languages and literatures of Central Asia
Matteo de Chiara & Evelin Grassi (eds.). 2015. Iranian languages and literatures of Central Asia: From the eighteenth century to the present (Studia Iranica. Cahier 57). Paris. The Table of...
View ArticleMemory and Commemoration in Islamic Central Asia
LUCIS 7th Annual Conference: Memory and Commemoration in Islamic Central Asia 23 – 25 November 2016, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society The seventh annual conference of LUCIS...
View ArticleSyriac Polemics Against Zoroastrianism and Christian Controversies under the...
Ruani, Flavia (ed.). 2016. Les controverses religieuses en syriaque. (Études Syriaques 13). Paris: Geuthner. The latest volume of the series Études Syriaques, edited by Flavia Ruani is dedicated to the...
View ArticleManpower Resources and Army Organisation in the Arsakid Empire
Olbrycht, Marek J. 2016. “Manpower Resources and Army Organisation in the Arsakid Empire“. Ancient Society 46, 291-338. As the territory of the Arsakid state (248 BC – AD 226) increased in size, the...
View ArticleAlexander the Great and the East
Nawotka, Krzysztof & Agnieszka Wojciechowska (eds.). 2016. Alexander the Great and the East: History, Art, Tradition. (Philippika – Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the...
View ArticleGermanicus, Artabanos II of Parthia, and Zeno Artaxias in Armenia
Olbrycht, Marek J. 2016. “Germanicus, Artabanos II of Parthia, and Zeno Artaxias in Armenia“, klio 98(2), 605–633. The aim of this study is to analyse the Roman-Parthian relations under Artabanos II...
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