On Middle Persian hassār and hassārīh
Fattori, Marco. 2023. A note on Pahlavi lexicography: Middle Persian hassār, hassārīh. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 1–12. This article deals with the identification and...
View ArticleIran, Volume 61, Issue 2 (2023)
The table of contents of the latest issue (61/2) of the journal Iran:
View ArticleJournal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
The latest issue (11/2-3) of Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies is devoted to Phoenician studies. Among other interesting contributions, a handful of papers interest...
View ArticleAvestan-Middle Persian tense mismatches
Peschl, Benedikt. 2023. Avestan-Middle Persian tense mismatches in the Zand and the Middle Persian “performative preterite.” Indogermanische Forschungen 128(1). 9–64. This article addresses the issue...
View ArticleBabylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism
Gross, Simcha. 2024. Babylonian Jews and Sasanian imperialism in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The new publication date for this book is now February 2024. From the image...
View ArticleThree Persian Martyr Acts
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook, Reyhan Durmaz, Michael L. Payne, Daniel Picus & Noah Tetenbaum. 2023. Three Persian martyr acts (Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Text and Translation 9). Piscataway, NJ:...
View ArticleThe Steppe Frontiers of Pārsa
Ferrario, Marco. 2023. The steppe frontiers of Pārsa: Negotiating the Northeastern borderlands of the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire. Journal of Ancient Civilizations 38(2). 129-189. The present paper seeks...
View ArticleDer Manichäismus
Hutter, Manfred. 2023. Der Manichäismus. Vom Iran in den Mittelmeerraum und über die Seidenstraße nach Südchina. Anton Hiersemann Verlag. Das erste umfassende deutschsprachige Handbuch der...
View ArticleThe Central Asian world
Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne & Madeleine Reeves (eds.). 2023. The Central Asian world (The Routledge Worlds). London & New York: Routledge. This landmark book provides a comprehensive...
View ArticleEstudios Iranios y Turanios (Vol. 5)
Estudios Iranios y Turanios 2023, Vol. 5, has now been published. The whole issue is dedicated to the Avestan, Middle Persian (Pahlavi) and Ossetian Studies.
View ArticleThe Syriac Legend of Alexander’s Gate
Tesei, Tommaso. 2023. The Syriac legend of Alexander’s gate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book is the first monographic study entirely consecrated to the Syriac text entitled Neṣḥānā...
View ArticleSlavery & Abolition
Volume 44, issue 4 (2023), of the journal Slavery & Abolition has just been published. This special issue, entitled Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World: Texts and Contexts, is...
View ArticleGraffiti in Middle Iranian
Cereti, Carlo G. 2023. Graffiti in Middle Iranian: Some Preliminary Notes. In Ondřej Škrabal, Leah Mascia, Ann Lauren Osthof & Malena Ratzke (eds.), Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a...
View ArticleEarly Zoroastrianism and Orality
Kreyenbroek, Philip G. 2023. Early Zoroastrianism and orality (Iranica, GOF III/NF 20). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Early Zoroastrianism was transmitted orally, as is now generally accepted by...
View ArticleA Portrait of Slaves and Slaveholders of Fire Foundations in Sasanian Iran
Tamari, Nazanin. 2023. Zoroastrian Fire Foundations: A Portrait of Slaves and Slaveholders. Slavery & Abolition 44(4). 697–719. Throughout the Sasanian era (224-650/1 CE), Zoroastrian Fire...
View ArticleTrust Matters
Vevaina, Leilah. 2023. Trust matters: Parsi endowments in Mumbai and the horoscope of a city. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million...
View ArticleEthnicity and Geography in the Eastern Mediterranean Area
Ponchia, Simonetta & Luisa Prandi (eds.). 2023. Shaping Boundaries. Ethnicity and Geography in the Eastern Mediterranean Area (Melammu Workshops and Monographs 8). Münster: Zaphon. This conference...
View ArticleSocioeconomic Transformation in the Sasanian Empire
Habibi, Hossein. 2023. Socioeconomic transformation in the Sasanian Empire: Late antique central Zagros (Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Recent studies have...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Young Avestan: A Manual for Teaching and Learning
Cantera, Alberto & Céline Redard. 2024. An introduction to Young Avestan: A manual for teaching and learning. (Trans.) Richard Tahmaseb Niroumand. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Avestan is the...
View ArticleArchaeological Gazetteer of Iran
The Pourdavoud Center at the UCLA operates the Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran, a great resource which we think should be more widely known. The Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran: An Online...
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