Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period
Niknami, Kamal-Aldin & Ali Hojabri (eds.). 2020. Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period. Springer. This collection of twenty-eight essays presents an up-to-date survey of pre-Islamic Iran,...
View ArticlePersianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation
Overton, Keelan (ed.). 2020. Iran and the Deccan: Persianate art, culture, and talent in circulation, 1400-1700. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began...
View ArticleIran and the Deccan
Keelan Overton (ed.). 2019. Iran and the Deccan: Persianate art, culture, and talent in circulation, 1400-1700. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Beginning in the early 1400s, large numbers of...
View ArticleIndian storytelling and the romance genre in Persian and Urdu
Khan, Pasha M. 2019. The broken spell: Indian storytelling and the romance genre in Persian and Urdu (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies). Detroit: Wayne State University Press. The Broken Spell: Indian...
View ArticleShort-term Empires in World History
Rollinger,Robert, Julian Degen & Michael Gehler (eds.). 2020. Short-term Empires in World History. Wiesbaden: Springer. The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states...
View ArticleAchaemenid Anatolia
Dahlén, Ashk P. (ed). 2020. Achaemenid anatolia: Persian presence and impact in the Western Satrapies 546-330 BC. Proceedings of an international symposium at the Swedish Research Institure in...
View ArticleArtifact, Text, Context
Tang, Li & Dietmar W. Winkler (eds.). 2020. Artifact, text, context: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia (orientalia – patristica – oecumenica 17). LIT Verlag. This volume is a...
View ArticleRethinking the Life of Mani
Gardner, Iain. 2020. The Founder of Manichaeism: Rethinking the Life of Mani. New York: Cambridge University Press. Mani, a third-century preacher, healer and public sage from Sasanian Mesopotamia,...
View ArticleThe Neo-Aramaic Verbal Root GŠQ ‘to Look’ and its Middle Iranian Origin
Mutzafi, Hezy. 2020. The Neo-Aramaic Verbal Root GŠQ ‘to Look’ and its Middle Iranian Origin. Le Muséon 133 (1-2), 1-12. The Neo-Aramaic verbal root gšq ‘to look’, known since the 19th century to occur...
View ArticleThe Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia
Dusinberre Elspeth R.M., Mark B. Garrison & Wouter F.M. Henkelman (eds.). 2020. The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia: Studies in Honour of Margaret Cool Root (Achaemenid History 16). Leiden:...
View ArticleTurkic-Iranian relationships: Uighur newcomers of the Qočo kingdom
Piras, Andrea. 2019. Khan uiguri del regno di Qočo (850-1250) nelle fonti di Turfan. In Giorgio Comai, Carlo Frappi, Giovanni Pedrini & Elena Rova (eds.), Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale...
View ArticleThe Bundahišn: a new translation
Agostini, Domenico & Samuel Thrope (eds.). 2020. The Bundahišn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation. A new translation. New York: Oxford University Press. The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational...
View ArticleThe Borazjan Monuments
Zehbari, Zohreh. 2020. The Borazjan monuments: A synthesis of past and recent works. Arta 2020.002. Since the 1970s, three Achaemenid monuments have been excavated at the sites of Charkhab, Bardak-e...
View ArticleIranian Cosmographical World
Panaino, Antonio. 2020. A Walk through the Iranian Heavens: For a History of an Unpredictable Dialogue between Nonspherical and Spherical Models (Ancient Iran Series 9). Irvine, CA: Jordan Center for...
View ArticleThe Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan
Payne, Richard E. & Rhyne King (eds.). 2020. The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan: Rule and Resistance in the Hindu Kush, circa 600 BCE–600 CE (Classica et Orientalia 24). Wiesbaden:...
View ArticleIranian Studies (vol. 53, issue 3–4)
Vol. 53 (2020), issues 3–4, of Iranian Studies dedicated to the memory of Ehsan Yarshater and entitled Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Contact and Language Islands in Iran has now been published...
View ArticleZoroastrian Dualism in Jewish, Christian, and Manichaean Perspective
Volume 96, issue 2 (2020) of Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses is dedicated to the subject of Zoroastrian dualism in Jewish, Christian, and Manichaean perspectives. Table of Contents Jan Dochhorn: Zu...
View ArticleHaran Gauaita
Burtea, Bogdan. 2020. Haran Gauaita. Ein Text zur Geschichte der Mandäer: Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar (Mandäistische Forschungen 7). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Die Mandäer, Nachkommen einer...
View ArticleTesting the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology
Gansell, Amy & Ann Shafer (eds.). 2020. Testing the canon of ancient near eastern art and archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology...
View ArticleARCHÄOLOGISCHE MITTEILUNGEN AUS IRAN UND TURAN (AMIT): VOL. 49
Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (AMIT): Vol. 49, 2017 [2020], ed. by German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Tehran Branch of the Eurasia Department. Einzige deutsche Zeitschrift für...
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