Three Zoroastrian Pahlavi Texts
Kolesnikov, Aliy Ivanovich. 2019. The Holy Books of Zoroastrianism: Transliteration, transcription, commentary and translation of three Pahlavi texts (Classics of Russian Oriental Studies). St....
View ArticleIran and the Caucasus
Volume 23, issue 4 of Iran and the Caucasus: Iran and the Caucasus 23(4). Table of Contents Ali Bahadori: On the Structural Aspects of Persian Elites in Achaemenid Persia Evgeny I. Zelenev and Milana...
View ArticleBetween Boston and Bombay
Rose, Jenny. 2019. Between Boston and Bombay: Cultural and Commercial Encounters of Yankees and Parsis, 1771–1865. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. A few years after the American declaration of independence,...
View ArticleCentral Asian Textile Images
Gasparini, Mariachiara. 2019. Transcending patterns: Silk road cultural and artistic interactions through Central Asian textile images (Perspectives on the Global Past). Honolulu: University of Hawai’i...
View ArticleArchäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (AMIT): Vol. 48
Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (AMIT): Vol. 48, 2016 [2019], ed. by German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Tehran Branch of the Eurasia Department The AMIT is the only German journal...
View ArticleGewaltsamer Herrschaftsübergang
Börm, Henning. 2019. Fragwürdige Ansprüche: Gewaltsamer Herrschaftsübergang im spätantiken Iran am Beispiel von Narseh und Bahrām Čōbīn. In Tilmann Trausch (ed.), Norm, Normabweichung und Praxis des...
View ArticleMusic of a Thousand Years
Lucas, Ann. 2019. Music of a thousand years: A new history of Persian musical traditions. Oakland: University of California Press. Iran’s particular system of traditional Persian art music has been...
View ArticleHalf-human and Monstrous Races in Zoroastrian Tradition
Agostini, Domenico. 2019. Half-human and monstrous races in Zoroastrian tradition. Journal of the American Oriental Society 139(4). 805–818. Legends and stories about fabulous races that dwelt in India...
View ArticleThe gender division of labour during the Proto-Elamite period
Yousefi Zoshk, Rouhollah, Saeed Baghizadeh & Donya Etemadifar. 2019. The gender division of labour during the proto-Elamite period in late 4th millennium BCE Iran. A case study from Tepe Sofalin in...
View ArticleSTUDIA IRANICA 48(1)
The first issue of Studia Iranica 48 (2019) has been published. For a table of contents and access to individual articles, see below or visit this page. Alisher BEGMATOV: Commodity Terms in the...
View ArticleCeramics and the Archaeological Achaemenid Horizon
Genito, Bruno & Giulio Maresca (eds.). 2019. Ceramics and the Archaeological Achaemenid Horizon: Near East, Iran and Central Asia. Napoli: Unior Press. The book collects the proceedings of a...
View ArticleA New Approach to the uštauuaitī Gāϑā
Kellens, Jean. 2019. Lecture sceptique et aventureuse de la Gâthâ uštauuaitī (Études Avestiques et Mazdéennes 6). Paris: de Boccard. On the subject of this booklet, I ended my contribution to the Wiley...
View ArticleRome, Persia, and Arabia
Fisher, Greg. 2019. Rome, Persia, and Arabia: Shaping the Middle East from Pompey to Muhammad. London and New York: Routledge. Rome, Persia, and Arabia traces the enormous impact that the Great Powers...
View ArticleThe end of Middle East history
Bulliet, Richard. 2020. The end of Middle East history and other conjectures (Mizan Series 3). Harvard University Press. The End of Middle East History and Other Conjectures is an unapologetic...
View ArticleDynasties of Persia and figurative art
Compareti, Matteo. 2019. Dinastie di Persia e arte figurativa. Bibliografia ragionata per/un millennio e mezzo di iconografie iraniche. Bologna: edito da Paolo Emilio Persiani. Dinastie di Persia e...
View ArticleA Cylinder Seal with an Amorite Name from Tepe Musiyan, Deh Luran Plain
Zeynivand, Mohsen. 2019. A Cylinder Seal with an Amorite Name from Tepe Musiyan, Deh Luran Plain. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 71, 77-83. The archeology of the Deh Luran plain was documented by the...
View ArticleThe Iranian Plateau during the Bronze Age
Meyer, Jan-Waalke, Emmanuelle Vila, Marjan Mashkour, Michèle Casanova & Régis Vallet (eds.). The Iranian Plateau during the Bronze Age: Development of urbanisation, production and trade. Lyon: MOM...
View ArticlePersian Lyric Poetry
Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). 2019. Persian lyric poetry in the classical era, 800-1500: Ghazals, panegyrics and quatrains (A History of Persian Literature 2). London: I.B. Tauris. The second volume in this...
View ArticleTwo Achaemenid toponyms on the canal stelae of Dareios I
Mahlich, Elena. 2020. Zwei achämenidische Toponyme auf den Kanalstelen von Dareios I. Arta 2020.001. On the canal stelae erected by Dareios I, two residence cities of the Achaemenids are mentioned,...
View ArticleXenophon’s Cyropaedia
Jacobs, Bruno & Robert Rollinger (eds.). 2019. Ancient Information on Persia Re-assessed: Xenophon’s Cyropaedia. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Marburg in Honour of Christopher Tuplin,...
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