The grammaticalization of progressive aspect in Persian
Davari, Shadi & Mehrdad Naghzguy-Kohan. 2017. The grammaticalization of progressive aspect in Persian. In Kees Hengeveld, Heiko Narrog & Hella Olbertz (eds.), The Grammaticalization of Tense,...
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Cribb, Joe. 2018. Kujula Kadphises and his title Kushan Yavuga (Sino-Platonic Papers 280). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. This paper sets out to examine the use of the term in the Chinese...
View ArticleTaxation and Administration in the Achaemenid Empire
From 550 to 330 BCE, the Achaemenid empire conquered different regions and united them under the rule of its king. To finance its military expeditions, its administration and its building projects, the...
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Yeroushalmi, David. 2017. The Jews of Iran: chapters in their history and cultural heritage (Bibliotheca Iranica : Judeo-Iranian and Jewish Studies Series 4). Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers....
View ArticleCollected Writings of Dastur Firoze M. Kotwal
Kotwal, Firoze M. 2018. The Collected Scholarly Writings of Dastur Firoze M. Kotwal. (Ed.) Firoza Punthakey Mistree & Cashmira Vatcha Bengalli. Vol. 1. Mumbai: Parzor Foundation. For over a...
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Zarrinkoub, Abdolhossein. 2017. Two centuries of silence: an account of events and conditions in Iran during the first two hundred years of Islam, from the Arab invasion to the rise of the Tahirid...
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Comfort, Anthony & Michal Marciak. 2018. How Did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine?: The Upper Tigris in Antiquity (C.700 Bce to 636 Ce). Archaeopress Archaeology. How did the Persian King of...
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View ArticleReflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography
Berberian, Houri & Touraj Daryaee (eds.). 2018. Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography. Jordan Center for Persian Studies. This volume is the result of a conference held on...
View ArticleReverence for Water Among the Zoroastrians
Cama, Shernaz. 2019. Ava: A Living Tradition of Reverence for Water Among the Zoroastrians. In Sara Keller (ed.), Knowledge and the Indian Ocean. Intangible Networks of Western India and Beyond, 65–85....
View ArticleRevisiting the Location of Pṛga in the Behistun Inscription
Doroodi, Mojtaba & Farrokh Hajiani. 2018. Revisiting the location of Pṛga in the Behistun inscription on the basis of its etymology and an examination of historico-geographical texts. The Journal...
View ArticleJewish histories of twentieth-century Iran
Sternfeld, Lior B. 2019. Between Iran and Zion: Jewish histories of twentieth-century Iran. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle...
View ArticleThe Idea of Iran: The Safavid Era
The Idea of Iran: The Safavid Era 27 October 2018, Brunei Gallery, SOAS London The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran, heir not only to the...
View ArticleThe representation of Persepolis in the Iranian press of the 1930s
Devos, Bianca. 2018. “History is repeated”: The representation of Persepolis in the Iranian press of the 1930s. Die Welt des Islams 58(3). 326–356. From spring 1931 to autumn 1939, the University of...
View ArticleAlphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform
Bloch, Yigal. 2018. Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform: sepiru professionals in Mesopotamia in the neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods (Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East 11)....
View ArticlePersonal names in Iranian Manichaica
Colditz, Iris. 2018. Iranische Personennamen in manichäischer Überlieferung (Iranisches Personennamenbuch Mitteliranische Personennamen II/Faszikel 1). Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der...
View ArticlePolemical Aspects in an Early Judeo-Persian Bible Exegesis
Haim, Ofir. 2018. Polemical Aspects in an Early Judeo-Persian Bible Exegesis: The Commentary on the Story of Ḥannah (RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 4608). Entangled Religions 6(Special Issue: Historical...
View ArticleEmpires of Ancient Eurasia
Benjamin, Craig. 2018. Empires of ancient Eurasia: The first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE – 250 CE (New Approaches to Asian History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The Silk Roads are the symbol of...
View ArticleAchaemenid Sources and the Problem of Genre
Silverman, Jason M. 2018. Achaemenid sources and the problem of genre. In Sebastian Fink & Robert Rollinger (eds.), Conceptualizing Past, Present, and Future. (Melammu Symposia 9), 261-278,...
View ArticleIran, the Silk Road and Political Economy in Late Antiquity
Payne, Richard. 2018. The Silk Road and the Iranian political economy in late antiquity: Iran, the Silk Road, and the problem of aristocratic empire. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African...
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