Sanskrit in Persianate India
Sanskrit in Persianate India Preconference in Madison, WI on Thursday, October 22, 2015 Sanskrit and Persian—both as languages and cultural systems—overlapped in time and space for several centuries on...
View ArticleThe life of Serapion in Sogdian
Sims-Williams, Nicholas (ed.). 2015. The life of Serapion and other Christian Sogdian texts from the manuscripts E25 and E26. (Berliner Turfantexte 35). Turnhout: Brepols. The Sogdian texts published...
View ArticleReforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran
Sheffield, Daniel. 2015. Review of Monica Ringer, Pious Citizens: Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2011). International Journal of Middle East...
View ArticleExcavating an Empire
Daryaee, Touraj, Ali Mousavi & Khodadad Rezakhani (eds.). 2014. Excavating an Empire:Achaemenid Persia in Longue Durée. Costa Mesa California: Mazda Publisher. Study of empires and imperial power...
View ArticleThe Kingdom of Adiabene between Parthians and Romans
Luther, Andreas. 2015. Das Königreich Adiabene zwischen Parthern und Römern, in: Ernst Baltrusch and Julia Wilker (Eds.), Amici – socii – clientes? Abhängige Herrschaft im Imperium Romanum, 275–300....
View ArticleParthian vassal kingdoms and Roman client states
Hartmann, Udo. 2015. Herrscher mit geteilten Loyalitäten. Vasallenherrscher und Klientelkönige zwischen Rom und Parthien“, in Ernst Baltrusch and Julia Wilker (Eds.), Amici – socii – clientes?...
View ArticleEgyptians in Babylonia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods
Hackl, Johannes and Michael Jursa. 2015. Egyptians in Babylonia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods.In J. Stökl & C. Waerzeggers (eds.), Exile and Return: The Babylonian Context, 157-180....
View ArticleSasanian law in its social context
The 2015 UCLA Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series will be delivered by Prof. Maria Macuch: Sasanian law in its social context November 9-18, 2015 Legal texts are among the more important sources...
View ArticleAmélie Kuhrt to deliver the Harold Bailey Lecture 2015
The Harold Bailey Lecture 2015 Friday 11th December, 5.30pm at FAMES, Cambridge Professor Amélie Kuhrt, FBA – The King Speaks: The Persians and their Empire The Achaemenid empire was created in the...
View ArticleTwelve Zoroastrian Treatises
Gheiby, Bijan. 2015. Twelve ancient treatises. Translation and Commentary. Bielefeld: Nemudar. The volume presents in 386 pages a collection of twelve Zoroastrian treatises together with their Persian...
View ArticleElamite Version of the Behistun Inscription
Aliyari Babolghani, Salman. 2015. The Elamite Version of Darius the Great Inscription at Bisotūn. Introduction, Grammar of Achaemenid Elamite, Transliteration, Persian Translation, Comparision with...
View ArticleFerdowsi’s Presentation of Zoroastrianism in an Islamic Light
Ghazanfari, Kolsoum. 2015. Ferdowsi’s Presentation of Zoroastrianism in an Islamic Light, Journal of Persianate Studies 8 (1). 23 – 41. Composed in 10th and 11th century ce, the Shāhnāmeh (The Book of...
View ArticleThe eye of the Shah
Chi, Jennifer (ed.). 2015. The Eye of the Shah: Qajar Court Photography and the Persian Past. With contributions by Carmen Pérez González, Judith Lerner, and Reza Sheikh. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton...
View ArticleThe Sistani Cycle of Epics and Iran’s National History: On the Margins of...
Gazerani, Saghi. 2015. The Sistani Cycle of Epics and Iran’s National History: On the Margins of Historiography. (Studies in Persian Cultural History 7). Brill. This work examines the entire corpus of...
View ArticleRepetition Analysis Function and the Avestan Manuscripts
Jügel, Thomas. 2015. Repetition analysis function (ReAF) I. Indogermanische Forschungen 120(1).177–208. Repetitions are relevant for several aspects of historical philology. With regard to Avestan,...
View ArticleAdam & Eve in Zoroastrian and Manichaean Literature
Kiel, Yishai. 2015. Creation by Emission. Recreating Adam and Eve in the Babylonian Talmud in Light of Zoroastrian and Manichaean Literature. Journal of Jewish Studies 66(2). 295–316. This study...
View ArticleGreek and Ancient Iranian Plague
Milizia, Paolo. 2015. Greek λοιμός, Middle Persian rēm, and the Avestan root rai̯-. Indogermanische Forschungen 120(1). The Greek name of the plague has not received a satisfactory etymological...
View ArticleHindu ritual and its significance for ritual theory
The following monograph, does not directly relate to Iranian Studies, but promises to be an important book and will be of interest to scholars of religion and Iranian Studies for its content and...
View ArticleThe Many Faces of War in the Ancient World
Heckel, Waldemar, Sabine Müller & Graham Wrightson (eds.). 2015. The Many Faces of War in the Ancient World. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This volume on different aspects of warfare and its...
View ArticleBiblical Covenant in the Persian Period
Bautch, Richard J. & Gary N. Knoppers (eds.). 2015. Covenant in the Persian Period: from Genesis to Chronicles. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. The 22 essays in this new and comprehensive study...
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