The Empires of the Near East and India
Khafipour, Hani. 2019. The empires of the Near East and India: Source studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal literate communities. New York: Columbia University Press. In the early modern world,...
View ArticleMaking Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland
Cameron, Hamish. 2019. Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland (Impact of Empire, 32). Leiden: Brill. In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian...
View ArticleTanbûr along the Silk Road
Zeeuw, Hans de. 2019. Tanbûr long-necked lutes along the Silk Road and beyond. Oxford: Archaeopress. Tanbûr Long-Necked Lutes Along the Silk Road and beyond explores the origin, history, construction,...
View ArticleOver the Mountains and Far Away
Avetisyan, Pavel S., Roberto Dan & Yervand H. Grekyan (eds.). 2019. Over the Mountains and Far Away: Studies in Near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of...
View ArticleA Demotic Tablet or Two in the Persepolis Fortification Archive
Azzoni, Annalisa, Christina Chandler, Erin Daly, Mark B. Garrison, Jan Johnson & Brian Muhs. 2019. From The Persepolis Fortification Archive Project, 7: A Demotic Tablet or Two in the Persepolis...
View ArticleDas Weltreich der Perser
Rollinger, Robert & Kai Ruffing (eds.). 2018. Das Weltreich der Perser – Rezeption, Aneignung und Verargumentierung von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. The above book is...
View ArticleTransition of Classification Patterns of Ancient Iran History in Qajar Era
Ordou, Reza. 2018. Transition of classification patterns of ancient Iran history in Qajar era. Historical Perspective & Historiography 21: 7-31. Qajar era was a period which academic historical...
View ArticleAn Introduction to the Ancient World
de Blois, Lukas & Robert J. van der Spek. 2019. An introduction to the ancient world (3rd Edition). London and New York: Routledge. An Introduction to the Ancient World offers a thorough survey of...
View ArticleVol. 52 of “Iranian Studies”
Vol. 52 (2019) of the journal Iranian Studies has now been published. This volume contains issues 1 & 2.
View ArticleAn autumn course in Zoroastrianism
The University of Bergen (Norway) and the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies at SOAS, University of London, offer this autumn (23–27 September 2019) a short course on Zoroastrianism....
View ArticleThe Chronology of and Sources for Egypt’s Second Revolt (ca. 487-484 BC)
Wijnsma, Uzume. 2019. “And in the fourth year Egypt rebelled …” The Chronology of and Sources for Egypt’s Second Revolt (ca. 487-484 BC),” Journal of Ancient History 7 (1): 32-61. Scholars continue to...
View ArticleA new Achaemenid building-complex in Kerman
Atayi, Mohammad and Shahram Zare. 2019. A new Achaemenid building-complex in Kerman. Evidence from Mahdiābād-e Oliā. ARTA 2019. 003. The present note provides a general overview of the site of...
View ArticleL’ère kouchane des documents bactriens
De la Vaissière, Étienne. 2018. L’ère kouchane des documents bactriens. Journal Asiatique 306 (2): 281-284.
View ArticleIranian Religions: Zoroastrianism, Yezidis and Bahaism
Hutter, Manfred. 2019. Iranische Religionen: Zoroastrismus, Yezidentum, Bahāʾītum. Berlin: De Gruyter. Das Studienbuch ist aus Erfahrungen des Unterrichts zu den im Untertitel genannten Religionen...
View ArticleThe Persian Gulf
Nokandeh, Jebrael & Abdolreza Dashtizadeh (eds.). 2019. The Persian Gulf: An archaeological perspective. Tehran: National Museum of Iran, Qeshm Free Zone. For a partial Table of Contents, see Potts...
View ArticleAn Inscription of Darius I from Phanagoria
Shavarebi, Ehsan. 2019. An Inscription of Darius I from Phanagoria (DFa): Preliminary report of a work in progress. Arta 2019. 005. The present paper is a preliminary study of an Achaemenid fragmentary...
View ArticleThe Eastern Frontier
Haug, Robert. 2019. The eastern frontier: Limits of empire in late antique and early medieval Central Asia (Early and Medieval Islamic World). London: I.B. Tauris. Transoxania, Khurasan, and...
View ArticleArchery in Achaemenid and Parthian Kingships
Panaino, Antonio. 2019. Symbolic and Ideological Implications of Archery in Achaemenid and Parthian Kingships. In Federicomaria Muccioli, Alessandro Cristofori & Alice Bencivenni (eds.),...
View ArticleThe reshaping of Persian art
Szántó, Iván & Yuka Kadoi (eds.). 2019. The reshaping of Persian art: Art histories of Islamic Iran and Centra Asia (Acta et Studia XV). Piliscsaba: The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern...
View ArticleSāsānian, Central Asian and Byzantine Iconography
Overlaet, Bruno. 2018. Sāsānian, Central Asian and Byzantine Iconography – Patterned Silks and Cross-culturaL Exchange. In Birgit Bühler & Viktor Freiberger (eds.), Der Goldschatz von Sânnicolau...
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