The Historiography of Persian Architecture
Gharipour, Mohammad (ed.). 2015. The Historiography of Persian Architecture. (Iranian Studies 29). New York, NY: Routledge. Historiography is the study of the methodology of writing history, the...
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Simpson, St John. 2014. Merv, an archaeological case-study from the northeastern frontier of the Sasanian Empire. Journal of Ancient History. 2(2), 1-28. This paper re-examines some of the latest...
View ArticleEpigraphic practices in Persia and the ancient Iranian world
Canepa, Matthew P. 2015. Text, image, memory, and performance: epigraphic practices in Persia and the ancient Iranian world. In Antony Eastmond, Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval...
View ArticleSelected Works of Ehsan Yarshater
Yarshater, Ehsan. 2015. Civilizational Wisdom: Selected Works of Ehsan Yarshater. (Ed.) Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi. (IranNameh Books 2). Toronto: Foundation for Iranian Studies. The volume edited by...
View ArticleCfP: Endangered Iranian Languages
ISEIL 2016 Second International Symposium on “Endangered Iranian Languages” 8 – 9 JULY 2016, PARIS, FRANCE CNRS, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, INALCO, EPHE The International Symposium on Endangered...
View ArticleStudies on the Pre-Islamic Iranian World
Krasnowolska, Anna & Renata Rusek-Kowalska (eds.). 2015. Studies on the Iranian World I. Before Islam. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press. This volume is the proceedings of the Seventh...
View ArticleApproaches to Social Complexity in Kura-Araxes Culture
Alizadeh, Karim, Hamed Eghbal, and Siavash Samei. 2015. Approaches to Social Complexity in Kura-Araxes Culture: A View from Köhne Shahar (Ravaz) in Chaldran, Iranian Azerbaijan, Paléorient....
View ArticleIranian Jews in Israel
Cecolin, Alessandra. 2015.Iranian Jews in Israel: Between Persian Cultural Identity and Israeli Nationalism. (Library of Modern Middle East Studies). London: I.B. Tauris. Since the establishment of the...
View ArticleEthics of War and Peace in the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
Mahalati, Mohammad Jafar Amir. 2015. Ethics of War and Peace in the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Iranian Studies. 48(6), 905-931. This article provides an overview of the ethics of war and peace in the...
View ArticleReligious Appropriation of National Symbols in Iran: Searching for Cyrus the...
Merhavy, Menahem. 2015. Religious Appropriation of National Symbols in Iran: Searching for Cyrus the Great. Iranian Studies. 48(6), 933-948. In this article I examine the debate over the character of...
View ArticleIndo-Persian State Secretary
Kinra, Rajeev. 2015. Writing self, writing empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the cultural world of the Indo-Persian state secretary. (South Asia across the Disciplines). Oakland, California: University...
View ArticleThe deconstruction of the Silk Road
de la Vaissière, Etienne. 2014. Trans-asian trade or the Silk Road deconstructed. In Neal, Larry & Jeffrey Williamson (eds.), The Cambridge history of capitalism. Volume 1. The rise of capitalism:...
View ArticleThe Persian Empire in England
Grogan, Jane. 2014. The Persian empire in English Renaissance writing, 1549 – 1622. (Early Modern Literature in History). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. The Persian Empire in English Renaissance...
View ArticleA new look at the Roman Empire of the fourth century
Dijkstra, Roald , Sanne van Poppel & Daniëlle Slootjes (eds.). 2015. East and West in the Roman Empire of the fourth century. An end to unity? Brill. East and West in the Roman Empire of the...
View ArticleSyriac into Middle Iranian
Barbati, Chiara. 2015. Syriac into Middle Iranian: A Translation Studies Approach to Sogdian and Pahlavi Manuscripts within the Church of the East. Open Linguistics 1(1). 444–457. Based on a corpus...
View ArticleSasanian glassware
Simpson, St John. 2015. Sasanian glassware from Mesopotamia, Gilan, and the Caucasus. Journal of Glass Studies 57. 77–96. This paper was presented at The Corning Museum of Glass in March 2014 as part...
View ArticleCentral Asia and the Persianate World
Peacock, Andrew C. S. & D. G. Tor (eds.). 2015. Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate world: Iranian tradition and Islamic civilisation. (I.B.Tauris & BIPS Persian Studies Series 7). London:...
View ArticleRoman ‘Soldatenkaiser’ on the Triumphal Rock Reliefs of Shāpūr I
Shavarebi, Ehsan. 2015. Roman ‘Soldatenkaiser’ on the Triumphal Rock Reliefs of Shāpūr I – A Reassessment. HISTORIA I ŚWIAT 4, 47-63. Five rock reliefs surviving in Persis/Fārs province in southern...
View ArticleBiblical and Christian Sogdian texts
Sims-Williams, Nicholas, Martin Schwartz & William J. Pittard (eds.). 2014. Biblical and other Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan collection. (Berliner Turfantexte 32). Turnhout: Brepols. This...
View ArticleResearch on Yaghnobi
Benkato, Adam. 2015. Review article: Recent work in Yaghnobi Studies. Iran and the Caucasus 19. 283–294. This review article discusses various issues raised by the two reports of the Italian missions...
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