Disability in Ancient Persia
Coloru, Omar. 2017. Ancient Persia and Silent Disability. In Christian Laes (ed.), Disability in Antiquity, 61–74. London: Routledge. Did disability ever exist in ancient Persia? This provocative...
View ArticleIranian and Jewish Apocalyptics
Agostini, Domenico. 2016. “On Iranian and Jewish Apocalyptics, Again“, Journal of the American Oriental Society 136 (3), 495-505. The relations between the Iranian, in particular Zoroastrian, and...
View ArticleThe Sacred Books of the East
Molendijk, Arie. 2016. Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East. Oxford University Press. This volume offers a critical analysis of one the most ambitious editorial projects of late...
View ArticleProto-Elamite writing in Iran
Desset, François. 2016. “Proto-Elamite writing in Iran“, Archéo–Nil 26, 67-104. In the Near East, the most ancient writing systems currently known in the world appeared at the end of the 4th millennium...
View ArticlePower, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire
Hope, Michael. 2016. Power, politics, and tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Ilkhānate of Iran. Oxford University Press. This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was...
View ArticleMultilingualism, Communication and Social Reality in Pre-Modern Eurasia
Multilingualism, Communication and Social Reality in Pre-Modern Eurasia: Linguistic, Ritual, and Socio-Economic Aspects International Workshop, organized by the Institute of Iranian Studies (IFI) of...
View ArticlePhilosophy in the Islamic World
Adamson, Peter. 2016. Philosophy in the Islamic world (A history of philosophy without any gaps 3). Oxford University Press. A short editorial note: This book offers a very useful overview, as the...
View ArticleThe Zoroastrian Law to Expel the Demons
Andrés Toledo, Miguel Ángel. 2016. The Zoroastrian law to expel the demons: Wīdēwdād 10-15. Critical edition, translation and glossary of the Avestan and Pahlavi texts (Iranica 23). Wiesbaden:...
View ArticleSemiramis’ Legacy
Stronk, Jan p. 2016. Semiramis’ Legacy: The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily (Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia). Edinburgh University Press. There are only a few detailed histories...
View ArticleThe Diez Albums | Brill
Gonnella, Julia, Friederike Weis & Christoph Rauch (eds.). 2016. The Diez albums: Contexts and contents (Islamic Manuscripts and Books 11). Brill. The five Diez albums in Berlin are an important...
View ArticleBetween Rome and China
Lieu, Samuel & G. Mikkelsen (eds.). 2016. Between Rome and China: History, religions and material culture of the Silk Road (Silk Road Studies 18). Brepols Publishers. This book contains a key study...
View ArticleA History of Alexander in the Age of Empire
Nicholas Elliott’s translation of Briant’s 2012 Alexandre des Lumières: Fragments d’histoire européenne has been published: Briant, Pierre. 2017. The First European: A History of Alexander in the Age...
View ArticleThe Church of the East
Baumer, Christoph. 2016. The Church of the East: An illustrated history of Assyrian Christianity. I.B. Tauris. The so-called ‘Nestorian’ Church (officially known as the Apostolic Assyrian Church of the...
View ArticleAchaemenian Palaces and the Zoroastrian Ritual Surfaces
“The Old Iranian Absolute Frame of Reference. To the Orientation of Achaemenian Palaces and the Zoroastrian Ritual Surfaces“. A talk by Kianoosh Rezania (Bochum). Monday, 9 January 2016, 06:30 PM,...
View ArticleStatistics for 2016
Bibliographia Iranica started in May 2015. Although I had received positive feedback about my bibliographic posts on my own blog, it was unclear how well a dedicated bibliographic website for Iranian...
View ArticleCenter for Iranian Studies and the Encyclopædia Iranica
Many congratulations to Professor Elton Daniel, who has been appointed the Interim Director of the Center for Iranian Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopædia Iranica. See below for the full...
View ArticleArchaeology and Globalization
Hodos, Tamar (ed.) 2017. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization. Routledge. This unique collection applies globalization concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a wide range...
View ArticleRitual and Ritual Tradition in Zoroastrianism
“Homo Ritualis: Ritual and Ritual Tradition in Zoroastrianism” A talk by Shervin Farridnejad (Berlin/Vienna). Monday, 23 January 2016, 06:30 PM, Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall...
View ArticleThe Arshama project
The Arshama Project is not new, but since it is a valuable resource for the study of Achaemenid history, we would like to introduce it briefly. The parchment letters of the Persian prince Arshama to...
View ArticleSignaling Theory and Dress in Period IVb at Hasanlu Iran
Cifarelli, Megan. 2017. “Costly Choices: Signaling Theory and Dress in Period IVb at Hasanlu Iran“. in Megan Cifarelli & Laura Gawlinski (eds.), What Shall I Say of Clothes? Theoretical and...
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