Indo-Sasanian Trade
Kumar, Ashish. 2023. Beyond Borders: Indo-Sasanian Trade and Its Central Indian Connections (Circa CE 300–700). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. This book examines the economic history of ancient South Asia...
View ArticleThe Torah in the Persian Period
Achenbach, Reinhard. 2023. Tora in der Perserzeit: Gesammelte Studien zu Theologie und Rechtsgeschichte Judas (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 173). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. Reinhard Achenbach offers a...
View ArticleDining with the Sultan
Komaroff, Linda (ed.). 2023. Dining with the Sultan: The fine art of feasting. Los Angeles: DelMonico Books. Dining with the Sultan offers a pan-Islamic reach, spanning the 8th through 19th centuries...
View ArticlePhoenix (vol. 76)
The volume 76 (2022) of the journal Phoenix is out. It contains several papers about numismatics especially within the economy of Achaemenid empire.
View ArticleStudia Iranica 51
Volume 51 of Studia Iranica, dated 2022, is now available with two issues. Of particular interest to this blog is Olivia Ramble’s article on Kerdīr’s bun-xānag and Funding Foundations in Sasanian Iran....
View ArticleMiscellanea Epigraphica Susiana
Fattori, Marco. 2023. Miscellanea Epigraphica Susiana. Textual Observations on some Achaemenid Inscriptions from Susa. Arta 2023.003. This article presents some new philological observations on three...
View ArticleSasanian Studies 2
Farridnejad, Shervin & Touraj Daryaee (eds.). 2023. Sasanian studies: Late antique Iranian world | Sasanidische Studien: Spätantike iranische Welt. Vol. 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Sasanian...
View ArticleA new Middle Persian document from Hastijan
Asefi, Nima. 2023. A new Middle Persian document from Hastijan belonging to the Farroxzād family. Berkeley Working Papers in Middle Iranian Philology 1(3), 1–14. This study publishes a first edition of...
View ArticleThe making of Syriac Jerusalem & Soul and body diseases
Two books that have been published in 2023 and will be of interest to the readers of our site: Popa, Catalin-Stefan. 2023. The making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac...
View ArticleA scribal school of forgers
Fattori, Marco. 2022. A scribal school of forgers in “Hamadān”. Rivista degli Studi Orientali XCV(3). 27–44. In this article it is argued that the Old Persian inscriptions labelled AmH, AsH, D2Ha,...
View ArticleHappy New Year
We wish all readers of BiblioIranica a happy new year. May you experience joy and happiness in 2024. And if you do, consider yourself lucky and privileged! In 2023, our social media activities entered...
View ArticleNew issue of Indiran
The latest issue of Indiran, the newsletter of the Ancient India & Iran Trust, is now online. Established in 1978, the Ancient India & Iran Trust occupies a unique position as an independent...
View ArticlePersonal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia
Waerzeggers, Caroline & Melanie M. Groß (eds.). 2024. Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia. An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Personal names provide fascinating...
View ArticlePersian Cultures of Power
Canepa, Matthew P. (ed.). 2024. Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute. A cutting-edge analysis of 2,500 years of Persian...
View ArticleStudies on Persian objects from Greece
Fleischmann, Kristina Esther. 2023. Die Faszination des Orientalischen. Studien zu persischen Objekten aus Griechenland und zum Einfluss der persischen auf die griechische Kultur 550–330 v. Chr. (AOAT...
View ArticleFoucault, Kant, and Antiquity
Porter, James I. 2024. Foucault, Kant, and antiquity. Representations 165(1). 120–143. Michel Foucault’s return to classical antiquity at the end of his career coincides with a turn away from...
View ArticleLād: A Bactrian loanword
Halfmann, Jakob. 2023. Lād “law”: A Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 86(3). 505–510. This article proposes a new etymology for the...
View ArticleThe Religion of the Rigveda
Oberlies, Thomas. 2024. The religion of the Rigveda. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This comprehensive new presentation of the religion of the Rigveda is the result of a thorough-going endeavour to...
View ArticleNavigating Language in the Early Islamic World
Borrut, Antoine, Manuela Ceballos and Alison Vacca (eds.). 2024. Navigating language in the early Islamic world: Multilingualism and language change in the first centuries of Islam (Interdisciplinary...
View ArticleCentral Asia 300-850
La Vaissière, Etienne de. 2024. Asie centrale 300-850: des routes et des royaumes. Paris: Belles lettres. Central Asia forms the heart of medieval Eurasian trade, what is known, not entirely...
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