The Problem of Respect in Sasanid-Roman Relations
Maksymiuk, Katarzyna. 2018.The Two Eyes of the Earth: The Problem of Respect in Sasanid-Roman Relations. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 58, 591–606. The diplomatic exchanges of the two powers need...
View ArticleVoices from Zoroastrian Iran: Oral Texts and Testimony
Stewart, Sarah. 2018. Voices from Zoroastrian Iran: Oral Texts and Testimony (Part 1: Urban Contexts: Kerman, Tehran, Ahwaz, Esfahan, Shiraz). Vol. 1. (Iranica, GOF III/NF 17). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz...
View ArticleFarnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky
Beek, Lucien, Alwin Kloekhorst, Guus Kroonen, Michaël Peyrot & Tijmen Pronk (eds.). 2018. Farnah. Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky. Ann Arbor; New York: Beech Stave...
View ArticleEssays on Persian Poetry in Honor of Dick Davis
Seyed-Ghorab, Ali-Asghar (ed.). 2018. The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, A Celebration in Honor of Dick Davis. Washington, D.C: Mage Publishers. The Layered Heart : Essays on Persian Poetry...
View ArticleStudies on the Sogdian Epistolary Tradition
Benkato, Adam. 2018. Studies on the Sogdian Epistolary Tradition (Berliner Turfantexte 41). Turnhout: Brepols. Edition of Sogdian epistolary fragments discovered in Turfan as well as a wide-ranging...
View ArticleThe Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity
Walsh, David. 2018. The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity: Development, Decline and Demise ca. A.D. 270-430. Leiden: Brill. In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of...
View ArticleSogdian Christianity
Ashurov, Barakatullo. 2018. ‘Sogdian Christianity’: Evidence from architecture and material culture. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1–42. This article aims to discuss the question of the...
View ArticleThe Iron Age in southern Central Asia
Lhuillier, Johanna & Nikolaus Boroffka (eds.). 2018. A Millennium of History. The Iron Age in southern Central Asia (2nd and 1st Millennia BC). Proceedings of the conference held in Berlin (June...
View ArticleThe Reception of Alexander the Great
Moore, Kenneth Royce (ed.). 2018. Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great. Leiden & Boston: Brill. Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great offers a considerable...
View ArticleIconographic Exegesis of Anthropomorphic Zoroastrian Deities
Farridnejad, Shervin. 2018. Die Sprache der Bilder: Eine Studie zur ikonographischen Exegese der anthropomorphen Götterbilder im Zoroastrismus (Iranica 27). Harrassowitz-verlag. Einer in der Forschung...
View ArticleThe Reception of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World
Hubert, Thibaut d’ & Alexandre Papas (eds.). 2018. Jāmī in Regional Contexts. The Reception of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World, ca. 9th/15th-14th/20th Century (Handbook of...
View ArticleThe Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere
Amanat, Abbas & Assef Ashraf (eds.). 2018. The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere (Iranian Studies 18). Leiden: Brill. The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first...
View ArticleTrends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics
Korangy, Alireza & Corey Miller (eds.). 2018. Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 313). Berlin: De Gruyter. This set of essays...
View ArticleIslamic Transformations of the Classical Past
Casagrande-Kim, Roberta, Samuel Thrope, and Julia Rubanovich, eds., Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018) Within a century...
View ArticleNew Perspectives on Late Antique Iran and Iraq
Pregill, Michael (ed.). 2018. New perspectives on late antique Iran and Iraq. Mizan. Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations 3(1). This volume of the peer-reviewed, open access...
View ArticleShaping the Geography of Empire
Clarke, Katherine . 2018. Shaping the Geography of Empire: Man and Nature in Herodotus’ Histories. Oxford University Press. This is a book about the multiple worlds that Herodotus creates in his...
View ArticleThe Seleukid Empire
Kyle Erickson (ed.). 2018. The Seleukid Empire, 281–222 BC. War within the family. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales. The Seleukids, the easternmost of the Greekspeaking dynasties which succeeded...
View ArticleThe Temples of Anāhīd at Estakhr
Shavarebi, Ehsan. 2018. The Temples of Anāhīd at Estakhr (Southern Iran): Historical Documents and Archeological Evidence. In Juraj Belaj et al. (ed.), Sacralization of Landscape and Sacred Places:...
View ArticleA Grammar of Pahlavi
Asha, Raham. 2017. Pārsīg Language (The so-called Pahlavi). Parts of Speech, Word Formation, and Phonology. Tehran: Sade Publication. The present book is, in the first place, a descriptive grammar of...
View ArticleAncient Chorasmia, Central Asia and the Steppes
Minardi, Michele & Askold I. Ivantchik (eds.). 2018. Ancient Chorasmia, Central Asia and the Steppes (Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 24). Vol. 1–2. Leiden: Brill. Table of Contents:...
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