Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History
Magnusson, Andrew D. 2023. Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History: Accommodation and Memory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
View ArticleSasanian Archaeology
Simpson, St John. 2022. Sasanian Archaeology: Settlements, Environment and Material Culture. Oxford: Archaeopress. The Sasanian empire was one of the great powers of Late Antiquity, and for four...
View ArticleStudies of Bactrian Legal Documents
Sheikh, Hossein. 2023. Studies of Bactrian legal documents (Ancient Iran Series 15). Brill.
View ArticleKtèma n° 47/2022
The new volume of the journal Ktèma ,edited by Dominique Lenfant, contains several contributions to ancient Iranian history. Ce volume propose des approches inédites, dues aux meilleurs spécialistes...
View ArticleStudies inspired by Agnes Korn
Suleymanov, Murad & Dorian Pastor (eds.). 2022. Tous les chemins menent a Paris: Studies inspired by Agnes Korn. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. This volume is a collection of nine papers by various...
View ArticleThe reign of the strongest
Coloru, Omar. 2022. Il regno del piú forte: La lunga contesa per l’Impero di Alessandro Magno (IV-III sec. A.C.). Roma: Salerno editrice. Babilonia, giugno 323 a.C. La morte di Alessandro Magno getta...
View ArticleOral Narration in Iranian Cultures
Nourzaei, Maryam, Carina Jahani & Agnes Korn (eds.). 2022. Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures (Beiträge zur Iranistik, 48). Wiesbaden: Reichert. This volume presents papers demonstrating the...
View ArticleOedipus and Jocasta on a ‘Bactrian’ Silver Bowl
Dan, Anca & Frantz Grenet. 2022. Oedipus and Jocasta on a ‘Bactrian’ Silver Bowl in the Hermitage, c. 350-500. Journal Asiatique 330 (1), 55-79. Elites of the Hunnish states, including Tokharistan...
View ArticleThe birth of the abestāg
Lecture by Arash Zeini: The birth of the abestāg from the spirit of philology. Please register online for Zoom participation. زایش «اَبِستاگ» از روح فقه اللغة. سخنران: آرش زینی. برای شرکت در زوم لطفا...
View ArticleThe Armies of the Teispids and Achaemenids
Manning, Sean. 2022. The Armies of the Teispids and Achaemenids: The Armies of an Ancient World Empire. Journal of Ancient Civilizations 37 (2), 147-192. Although ancient warfare and the...
View ArticleRoutledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies
Brentjes, Sonja (ed.). 2023. Routledge handbook on the sciences in Islamicate societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th centuries. London: Routledge. The Routledge Handbook on the Sciences...
View ArticleScribal Confusion in Aramaic Renderings of Iranian Anthroponyms
Tavernier, Jan & Annalisa Azzoni. 2023. Scribal Confusion in Aramaic Renderings of Iranian Anthroponyms: A Preliminary Study. In: Yoram Cohen et al. (eds.), Telling of Olden Kings (The IOS Annual...
View ArticleStudies on the History of Rationality in Ancient Iran. Vol. 2
König, Götz. 2022. Studien zur Rationalitätsgeschichte im älteren Iran. Band II (Iranica 28). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. While the first volume of A History of Rationality in Ancient Iran aims...
View ArticleTowards a Manifesto for Middle Iranian Philology
Zeini, Arash. 2023. Towards a Manifesto for Middle Iranian Philology. Berkeley Working Papers in Middle Iranian Philology 0. 1–12. The purpose of this manifesto is to raise broad questions about...
View ArticleMedieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes
Marlow, Louise. 2023. Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Political Advice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The ‘mirror for princes’ genre of...
View ArticleThe Roman-Parthian border area as a conflict and contact zone
Hartmann, Udo, Frank Schleicher & Timo Stickler (eds.), Imperia sine fine? Der römisch-parthische Grenzraum als Konflikt- und Kontaktzone vom späten 1. bis zum frühen 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr....
View ArticleThe Sasanian Elephant Corps Revisited
Dmitriev, Vladimir. 2022. The Sasanian Elephant Corps Revisited: Ammianus Marcellinus on the Tactics of Persian Elephantry. Journal of Persianate Studies 15 (1), 1-13. According to Ammianus...
View ArticleThe Avestan Priestly College and its Gods: The Indo-Iranian Origins of a...
Panaino, Antonio. 2022. Le collège sacerdotal avestique et ses dieux: Aux origines indo-iraniennes d’une tradition mimétique (Mythologica Indo-Iranica II) (Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes,...
View ArticleSylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum, Paris-Berlin-Wien
Schindel, Nikolaus. 2022. Khusro I. (Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum, Paris-Berlin-Wien 4). 2 vols. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. The fourth volume of the series Sylloge Nummorum...
View ArticleIranian Studies from Ravenna, vol. 4
Ognibene, Paolo, Antonio Panaino & Andrea Piras. 2023. Studi Iranici Ravennati IV. Milano; Udine: Mimesis. The forth volume of the Studi Iranici Ravennati, a collection of research papers on...
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