The legacy, life and work of Geo Widengren
Larsson, Göran (ed.). 2021. The legacy, life and work of Geo Widengren and the study of the history of religions after World War II. Brill. Professor Geo Widengren (1907–1996), holder of the chair in...
View ArticleAfterlives of Ancient Rock-Cut Monuments in the Near East
Ben-Dov, Jonathan & Felipe Rojas (eds.). 2021. Afterlives of ancient rock-cut monuments in the Near East. Brill. This book concerns the ancient rock-cut monuments carved throughout the Near East,...
View ArticleIran and its Histories
Daryaee, Touraj & Robert Rollinger (eds.). 2021. Iran and its Histories. From the Beginnings through the Achaemenid Empire. Proceedings of the First and Second Payravi Lectures on Ancient Iranian...
View ArticleEunuchs as guardians of women in Achaemenid Persia
Lenfant, Dominique. 2021. Eunuchs as guardians of women in Achaemenid Persia. Orientalism and occidentalism in modern scholarship. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 61(4), 456-474. Ancient Greek...
View ArticleThe Persian revival
Grigor, Talinn. 2021. The Persian revival: The imperialism of the copy in Iranian and Parsi architecture. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press. One of the most heated scholarly...
View ArticleZoroastrianism Special
Journal of Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, Vol 25 (1-2), 2021. Guest Editor Shernaz Cama. The newest issue of the Journal of the Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, Vol 25 (1-2), 2021,...
View ArticleThe Administration of Syria under Alexander the Great
Kholod, Maxim. 2021. The administration of Syria under Alexander the Great. Klio 103(2). 505–537. The author is of the opinion that as a result of Alexander the Great’s conquest of Syria (late 333–332...
View ArticleAccounting for Fruit in the PFA
Stolper, Matthew W. 2021. From the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project 7: Accounting for Fruit in the PFA. Arta 2021.001. Abstract: Editions of Persepolis Fortification documents that compile...
View ArticleHandbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies
Reden, Sitta von (ed.). 2021. Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies. Volume 2: Local, Regional, and Imperial Economies. Berlin: De Gruyter. The second volume of the Handbook describes different...
View ArticleHappy Holidays
We wish all our readers and followers happy holidays and a joyful new year. Enjoy the festive season, stay safe and recharge.
View ArticleIdentity and Empire in the Ancient Near East
The latest issue of Studia Orientalia Electronica (Vol. 9 No. 2) is dedicated to the theme, “Identity and Empire in the Ancient Near East.” It conveys, inter alia, three articles that fall into the...
View ArticleAspects of the memory of the Persian Wars
Proietti, Giorgia. 2021. Prima di Erodoto: Aspetti della memoria delle Guerre persiane (Hermes 120). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. This book concerns the memory of the Persian Wars in Athens, in...
View ArticleIranianate and Syriac Christianity
Barbati, Chiara & Vittorio Berti (eds.). 2021. Iranianate and Syriac Christianity (5th‒11th Centuries) in late antiquity and the early Islamic period (Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik 87). Vienna:...
View ArticleJournal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies
Volume 21(1) of the Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies, published in 2021, has a number of articles related to Christianity and Sasanian Iran. Jcsss 21 (2021) contains six articles that...
View ArticleAnnales Islamologiques
The latest volume of Annales Islamologiques (vol. 54) is dedicated to the theme “acts of protection in Early Islamicate societies.” It includes a number of papers that fall in the scope of Iranian...
View ArticleStudia Iranica 49 (2)
The second issue of Studia Iranica 49 (2020) is out. For a table of contents and access to individual articles, see below or visit this page. Enrico G. Raffaelli: Day-Name Titles, Content Titles, Mixed...
View ArticleCurrent Trends in Avestan Studies
This lecture discusses the major progress made in our understanding of the Avestan corpus/texts in the last years. Based on her recent publication co-written with Jean Kellens, L’introduction à...
View ArticleIndividuals and Institutions in the Ancient Near East
Gabbay, Uri & Shai Gordin (eds.). 2021. Individuals and Institutions in the Ancient Near East: A Tribute to Ran Zadok (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 27). Berlin: De Gruyter. This volume...
View ArticleFaster than the Arrow of Ārash: the Long Journey of the Narratives in Iran
Norozi, Nahid (ed.). 2021. Come la freccia di Ārash: il lungo viaggio della narrazione in Iran : forme e motivi dalle origini all’epoca contemporanea (atti del V CoBIran, 22-23 ottobre 2020)...
View ArticleHow Did the Ancient Iranians Coordinate Space?
Kianoosh Rezania: “How Did the Ancient Iranians Coordinate Space? On the Old Iranian Absolute Frame of Reference” Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series For verbal expression and nonverbal cognitive...
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