Advances in Iranian Linguistics
Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi & Vida Samiian (eds.). 2020. Advances in Iranian Linguistics (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 351). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing...
View ArticleThe names of the Magi: A historical-religious investigation
Panaino, Antonio. 2020. I nomi dei magi evangelici. Un’indagine storico-religiosa. Con contributi di Andrea Gariboldi, Jeffrey Kotyk, Paolo Ognibene e Alessia Zubani. Milano: Mimesis. Although the...
View ArticleSources of Indo-Iranian Liturgies
Redard, Céline, Juanjo Ferrer-Losilla, Hamid Moein & Philippe Swennen (eds.). 2020. Aux sources des liturgies indo-iraniennes (Collection Religion 10). Liège: Presses universitaires de...
View ArticleIdentity in Persian Egypt
Becking, Bob. 2020. Identity in Persian Egypt: The Fate of the Yehudite Community of Elephantine. Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns. In this book, Bob Becking provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview...
View ArticleZoroastrian family law
Forest, Nicolas. 2020. Successions et Libéralités Dans l’Iran Mazdéen: Droit zoroastrien de la famille. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan. A l’instar du droit romain, le droit successoral mazdéen distinguait...
View ArticleLanguage of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
Lubotsky, Alexander. 2020. What Language was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex? In Paul W. Kroll & Jonathan A. Silk (eds.), “At the Shores of the Sky”. Asian...
View ArticleThe Judeo-Persian rendition of the Buddha biographies
Yasharpour, Dalia. 2021. The Prince and the Sufi: the Judeo-Persian rendition of the Buddha biographies (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 62). Leiden: Brill. The Prince and the Sufi is the...
View ArticleFrom Aṣ̌ǝm Vohū to Dareios’ Inscription
Oettinger, Norbert, Stefan Schaffner & Thomas Steer (eds.). 2020. “Denken Sie einfach!”: Gedenkschrift für Karl Hoffmann (Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 30). Dettelbach: Verlag J.H. Röll....
View ArticleWhen the dualists argued
Ruani, Flavia & Mihaela Timus (eds.). 2020. Quand les dualistes polémiquaient: Zoroastriens et manichéens (Orient & Méditerranée, 34). Leuven: Peeters. The authors of this collected volume show...
View ArticleIranian Studies (vol. 53, issue 5–6)
Vol. 53 (2020), issues 5–6, of Iranian Studies has now been published, containing a number of articles and reviews related to the pre-Islamic era. 2020 is the fifty-third year anniversary of Iranian...
View ArticleArmed force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire
Manning, Sean. 2021. Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire: Past Approaches, Future Prospects (Oriens et Occidens, 32). Stuttgart: Fanz Steiner Verlag. The armies of Cyrus, Xerxes and Darius III...
View ArticleMemory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures: Rewriting the Bible in...
Minov, Sergey. 2021. Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures: Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 26). Leiden: Brill.
View ArticleNeo-Platonic Elements in the Zoroastrian Literature
König, Götz. 2020. On the Question of Neo-Platonic Elements in the Zoroastrian Literature of the Ninth Century. In Ana Echevarría Arsuaga & Dorothea Weltecke (eds.), Religious Plurality and...
View ArticleEstudios Iranios y Turanios (Vol. 4)
Estudios Iranios y Turanios, Vol. 4, 2020.Estudios Iranios y Turanios, Vol. 4, 2020. has now been published. The whole issue is dedicated to the Avestan and Middle Persian Studies. Alberto Cantera: “A...
View ArticleThe Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World
Mairs, Rachel (ed.). 2021. The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek world. London & New York: Routledge. This volume provides a thorough conspectus of the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies,...
View ArticleSymbols of political authority
Mittertrainer, Anahita Nasrin. 2020. Sinnbilder politischer Autorität? Frühsasanidische Städtebilder im Südwesten Irans. Dortmund: Readbox unipress. Welche Rolle spielten Stadtgründungen bei der...
View ArticleJudeo-Persian Writings: A Manifestation of Intellectual and Literary Life
Pirnazar, Nahid (ed.). 2021. Judeo-Persian Writings: A Manifestation of Intellectual and Literary Life (Iranian Studies 42). London: Routledge. Introducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original...
View ArticleElite responses to the rise of Achaemenid Persia
Medenieks, Selga (ed.). 2018. Elite responses to the rise of Achaemenid Persia. Special issue of Hermathena 204 & 205. This issue of Hermathena was published in December 2020 and currently has no...
View ArticleAn Iranian Vision of the Afterlife
Kłagisz, Mateusz M. 2020. An Iranian Vision of the Afterlife According to the Middle Persian “Ardā Wīrāz-nāmag.” ARAM Periodical 32 (Afterlife in the Ancient Near East). 421–461. This paper...
View ArticleNABU 2020-4
The latest issue of NABU (Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires), 2020-4 (notes 100-134), is out. Among other interesting notes, three fall in the scope of the Iranian Studies discipline....
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