The Sasanian Navy revisited
Dmitriev, Vladimir. 2017. The Sasanian navy revisited: An unwritten chapter in Iran’s military history. International Journal of Maritime History 29(4), 727-737. In modern historiography, Sasanian Iran...
View ArticlePersian Art: Image-making in Eurasia
Kadoi, Yuka (ed.). 2017. Persian Art: Image-making in Eurasia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. In this illustrated book, nine contributors explore multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and...
View ArticleBulletin of the Asia Institute 27
Issue 27 of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute will be published this December. The information on this issue is not yet available on the journal’s website, but the content has been circulated, which...
View ArticleA Zoroastrian Doctrine in the Manichaean Reception
Panaino, Antonio. 2017. The end of time and the ‘Laws of Zoroaster’. A Zoroastrian doctrine in the Manichaean reception. In Francesco Calzolaio, Erika Petrocchi, Marco Valisano & Alessia Zubani...
View ArticleThe Sanskrit Yasna
Goldman, Leon, The Sanskrit Yasna Manuscript S1. Facsimile Edition, Corpus Avesticum / Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, 32/1 (Leiden: Brill, 2017) The manuscript S1 is one of the...
View ArticleCorpus Avesticum Berolinense
Today, the Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, received the confirmation of funding for Corpus Avesticum Berolinense (CAB), a long-term project funded by the German Research...
View ArticlePre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians
Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko (ed.). 2017. Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʻan al-bašar. vol. V, section 4: Persia and its kings, part I. (Bibliotheca Maqriziana 5). Leiden: Brill. Al-Maqrīzī’s (d. 845/1442) last work,...
View ArticleShahnama Studies III
van den Berg, Gabrielle (ed.). 2017. Shahnama Studies III: The Reception of the Shahnama. Leiden: Brill. Shahnama Studies III focuses on the hugely successful afterlife of the Shahnama or Book of...
View ArticleThe Imagery of the Ritual Landscape at Persepolis
Garrison, Mark B. 2017. The ritual landscape at persepolis: glyptic imagery from the persepolis fortification and treasury archives. (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 71). Chicago, IL: Oriental...
View ArticleSasanian coins, middle-Persian etymology and the Tabarestān archive
Gyselen, Rika & Malek Iradj Mochiri (eds.). 2017. Sasanian coins, middle-Persian etymology and the Tabarestān archive. (Res Orientales 26). Leuven: Peeters. Table of Contents: Rika Gyselen; Malek...
View ArticleThe Portrait of a Hellenistic Ruler in the National Museum of Iran
Lindström, Gunvor. 2017. The Portrait of a Hellenistic Ruler in the National Museum of Iran. In Daehner, Jens M., Kenneth Lapatin, and Ambra Spinelli (eds.), 198-204, Artistry in Bronze: The Greeks...
View ArticleDēnkard and the Socio-Religious Identity in the Early-Islamic Iran
Terribili, Gianfilippo. 2017. Dēnkard III Language Variation and the Defence of Socio-Religious Identity in the Context of Early-Islamic Iran. Open Linguistics 3(1). The aim of the present paper is...
View ArticleIranian Elements in Buddhist Astrology
Our last post for the year 2017, an article by Jeffrey Kotyk, is appropriately on Iranian elements in Buddhist astrology. We wish all our readers a happy new year: Kotyk, Jeffrey. 2017. Iranian...
View ArticleThe Eighth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate...
The forthcoming Rescheduled Eighth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) will be hosted by Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies at Ilia State...
View ArticleThe Administrative Division of the 13th Satrapy of Achaemenid Persia in the...
Khorikyan, Hovhannes. 2017. The Administrative Division of the 13th Satrapy of Achaemenid Persia in the Reign of Darius II. Metamorphoses of History, Scientific Almanac 10: 174-180. The Babylonian...
View ArticleAvestan Textile Terms
Andrés-Toledo, Miguel Ángel. 2017. Sasanian exegesis of Avestan textile terms. In Gaspa, Salvatore, Cécile Michel & Marie-Louise Nosch (eds.), Textile terminologies from the Orient to the...
View ArticleThe Coherence of Yasna
Ahmadi, Amir. 2017. On the coherence of Yasna: A critical assessment of recent arguments. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 1-26. DOI In recent years a number of scholars have...
View ArticlePersian Interventions
Hyland, John O. 2017. Persian Interventions: The Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta, 450−386 BCE. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Thirty years after Xerxes invaded Greece, the Achaemenid...
View ArticleFirst alabastron with Aramaic inscription in Persian period
Qahéri, Sépideh & Kevin Trehuedic. 2017. Premier alabastron d’époque perse à inscription araméenne (MNI 218/9). Arta 2017.002.
View ArticleTāq-e Kasrā: Wonder of Architecture
Kasra: Wonder of Architecture Directed by Pejman Akbarzadeh 7.00pm, Thursday 1 February 2018 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of London Russell Square WC1H 0XG Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture...
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