The Sasanian Empire at War
Decker, Michael J. 2022. The Sasanian Empire at War. Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224–651. Yardley: Westholme Publishing. The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam,...
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Zubani, Alessia (ed.). 2022. Abēbīm “fearless”. Who was afraid of the end of the millennium? New approaches to the interpretation of the traditional date of Zoroaster. Bologna: Mimesis. The present...
View ArticleThe Sentiment of Knowledge
Pirart, Éric. Le Sentiment du Savoir. Présentation, analyse, traduction et commentaire de la Spentā.mańiiu Gāθā (Y 47-50). Précédé d’une introduction générale, suivi de quatre Marginales grammaticales...
View ArticleThe World of the Ancient Silk Road
Liu, Xinru (ed.). 2023. The World of the Ancient Silk Road. London: Routledge. This volume explores human migration, communication, and cross-cultural exchange on the Silk Road, a complex network of...
View ArticleThe Scythian Empire
Beckwith, Christopher I. 2022. The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press. In the late 8th and...
View ArticleÉtudes avestiques et mazdéennes vol. 9
Kellens, Jean. 2022. Études avestiques et mazdéennes vol. 9: Complémentarité des deux dernières Gâthâs (Y51 et Y53-54.1) (Persika 24). Leuven: Peeters. Les principes directeurs qui ont guidé mes...
View ArticleMilitary Diasporas
Christ, G., P. Sänger & M.Carr (Eds.). 2022. Military Diasporas: Building of Empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE-1500 CE). London: Routledge. Military Diasporas proposes a new research...
View ArticleProcopius of Caesarea: The Persian Wars
Greatrex, Geoffrey (ed.). 2022. Procopius of Caesarea: The Persian Wars: Translation, with Introduction and Notes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Procopius was the major historian of the reign...
View Article2022 Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism Conference
This is an online event (3 hours): The History of Zoroastrian Priesthood, The bond between the Avesta and Persian Literature & The Forgotten Sources of Medieval Zoroastrianism Sat, November 19,...
View ArticleThe Persian Wars: A Historical Commentary
Greatrex, Geoffrey. 2022. Procopius of Caesarea: The Persian Wars – A Historical Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Procopius was the major historian of the reign of Justinian and one...
View ArticleThe Parallel Lives of Ardashir I and Constantine the Great
O’Farrell, Matthew. 2023. Legendary Patterns in Late Antique Biography: The Parallel Lives of Ardashir I and Constantine the Great (Iran Studies, 23). Leiden: Brill. A Memorial in the World offers a...
View ArticleAn Elamite Duck Weight
Wicks, Yasmina & Javier Álvarez-Mon. 2022. An Elamite Duck Weight in the Susa Museum: New evidence for the Behbahan Plain in the late seventh/early sixth century BCE. Arta 2022.004. The importance...
View ArticleLearn Persian
Alam, Mahmood. 2023. Learn Persian: Grammar and Workbook for Elementary and Intermediate Levels. London: Routledge. Learn Persian has a step-by-step organized and structured framework of modern Persian...
View ArticleA New Translation of al-Balādhurī’s Futūh al-Buldān
Kennedy, Hugh (ed.). 2022. History of the Arab Invasions: The Conquest of the Lands -A New Translation of al-Balādhurī’s Futūh al-Buldān. London: Bloomsbury. Ahmad bin Yahuya al-Baladhuri’s History of...
View ArticleThe Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West
Rong, Xinjiang. 2023. The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West (East and West, 14). Translated by Sally K. Church, et al. Edited by Sally K. Church and Imre Galambos. Leiden: Brill....
View ArticlePersia and Its Kings
Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko (trans.). 2023. Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part II (Bibliotheca Maqriziana, 9). Leiden: Brill. Al-Maqrīzī’s (d. 845/1442) last...
View ArticleThe Kushnameh
Hemmat, Kaveh L. & Hee Soo Lee (eds.). 2022. The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked. Oakland: University of California Press. The first English translation of a strange and unusual...
View ArticleLooking at Persians
Stuttard, David (Ed.). 2023. Looking at Persians. London: Bloomsbury. Aeschylus’ Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece’s victory in 480 BC over the...
View ArticleThe End of Empires
Gehler, Michael, Robert Rollinger & Philipp Strobl (eds.). The End of Empires. Wiesbaden: Springer. The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and...
View ArticleThe World of Alexander in Perspective
Rollinger, Robert & Julian Degen (eds.). 2022. The World of Alexander in Perspective: Contextualizing Arrian (Classica et Orientalia 30). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. This volume is a collection of...
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