Mystical Landscapes
Keshavarz, Fatemeh & Ahmet T. Karamustafa (eds.). 2024. Mystical landscapes in medieval Persian literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. In this collection, Fatemeh Keshavarz and Ahmet T....
View ArticleLost Turfan Fragments
Benkato, Adam. 2024. Lost Turfan fragments from the Nachlass of W.B. Henning. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, FirstView. 1–17. During the Second World War, a number of...
View ArticleAfrican Individuals and Groups in Texts from Chaldean and Achaemenid Babylonia
Karlsson, Mattias. 2024. From Memphis to Babylon: African individuals and groups in texts from Chaldean and Achaemenid Babylonia (Ägypten und Altes Testament 125). Münster: Zaphon. Die ersten...
View ArticleWar in the Ancient Iranian Empires
Hyland, John O. & Khodadad Rezakhani (eds.). 2024. Brill’s companion to war in the ancient Iranian empires (Brill’s Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 9)....
View ArticleWritten Middle Persian Literature under the Sasanids
Van Bladel, Kevin T. 2024. Written Middle Persian literature under the Sasanids (AOS Essay 16). New Haven: AOS. Although there was oral literature among speakers of ancient Iranic languages, the author...
View ArticleEschatologia Iranica I:
Rezania, Kianoosh. 2024. Eschatologia Iranica I: From Zoroastrian cosmos to Abbasid Madīnat al-Salām: A journey through utopia and heterotopia. Religions 15(10). The history of imperial dynasties in...
View ArticleZoroastrian theories on earthquakes
Azarnouche, Samra. 2024. Tectonique des mythes. Croyances et théories zoroastriennes sur le tremblement de terre. Revue de l’histoire des religions 241(2). 275–297. While the earthquake is primarily a...
View ArticleA Workshop on the Dēnkard
‘A Spark of the Glimmer of the Original Light’: A Workshop on the Dēnkard as Literature, Theology, and Scholasticism17-18 Oct, Wolfson CollegeUniversity of Oxford Professor Samra Azarnouche (L’École...
View ArticleSocieties, Politics and Cultures of the Iranian World
Societies, Politics and Cultures of the Iranian World (2024–2025), a monthly multidisciplinary research seminar hosted by the Centre de recherche sur le monde iranien (CeRMI), presents recent research...
View ArticleA History of Space
Une histoire de l’espace à l’époque des premières dynasties turques et mongoles This year’s biannual Conférences d’études iraniennes «Ehsan et Latifeh Yarshater» will be delivered by David...
View ArticleBridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue
Kallas, Nathalie (ed.). 2024. Bridging the gap: Disciplines, times, and spaces in dialogue – Volume 2: Sessions 3, 7 and 8 from the Conference Broadening Horizons 6 Held at the Freie Universität...
View ArticleThe Vanishing Zoroastrian Presence in Ahvaz
A lecture by Saloumeh Gholami, University of Cambridge, and Mehraban Pouladi, Mōbedān Council (Iran), entitled: The vanishing Zoroastrian presence in Ahvaz: Historical evolution, migration and the...
View ArticleContact Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean
Niesiołowski-Spano, Łukasz & Kacper Ziemba (eds.). 2024. Contact Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean: Judeans and their neighbours in intercultural contexts: places, middlemen, transcultural...
View ArticleGorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context
Karim, Shuan Osman & Saloumeh Gholami (eds.). 2024. Gorani in its historical and linguistic context (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation 41) Berlin: De Gruyter. Gorani refers to under-documented,...
View ArticleOn Middle Persian Documents
The 2nd Berkeley Workshop on Middle Persian Documents and Sealings This is the second workshop in a series that began in Spring 2023 with the idea of bringing together scholars around the world who...
View ArticleWine Cultures
Antonetti, Claudia, Bryan De Notariis & Marco Enrico (eds.). 2024. Wine cultures: Gandhāra and beyond (Antichistica 40). Venezia: Venice University Press. The volume Wine Cultures. Gandhāra and...
View ArticleNavigating the Worlds of History
Ruffing, Kai, Brigitte Truschnegg, Andreas Rudigier, Julian Degen, Sebastian Fink & Kordula Schnegg (eds.). 2024. Navigating the worlds of history. Studies in honor of Robert Rollinger on the...
View ArticleMale Homoerotic Practices in Achaemenid Persia
Treuk Medeiros de Araujo, Matheus. 2024. Male Homoerotic Practices in Achaemenid Persia: An Overview. Archai 34, e03415. Descriptions of Ancient Persian male homoeroticism come mainly from Classical...
View ArticleLand and Power in the Sasanian Empire
A workshop organised by Tommy Benfey (Tübingen) and Richard Payne (Chicago). Friday, October 25, 2024 The workshop is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago and the University of Tübingen.
View ArticlePersian Metalwork along the Silk Road
Entangled Objects of Eurasia: Persian Metalwork along the Silk Road Wednesday 16 October 2024 Scriptive Things and Commensal Warfare: Luxury Vessels across post-Achaemenid Asia Echoes of Persian...
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