Arash Zeini

Tag: Iranian Studies

  • Berkeley Working Papers in Middle Iranian Philology

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    Adam Benkato and I have finally launched our journal, Berkeley Working Papers in Middle Iranian Philology, where we intend to publish short and longer articles or research reports on the philology and epigraphy of the Middle Iranian languages (Middle Persian, Parthian, Bactrian, Sogdian, Chorasmian, Khotanese). We start the Working Papers with issue 0, Towards a…

  • The Roar of silence

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    On 26 September, I presented François de Blois the Festschrift that Adam Benkato and I edited: Benkato, Adam & Arash Zeini (eds.). 2021. The roar of silence: A Festschrift in honour of François de Blois. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 31(3). The presentation took place at the Ancient India & Iran Trust in Cambridge a…

  • Abadan:Retold

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    Abadan:Retold is an innovative, multi-media social history project invented and managed by Rasmus Christian Elling, an Associate Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. A crucial part of the project is an online portal (www.abadan.wiki) with multiple functions.

  • Closure of ‘small Humanities programmes’!

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    At BiblioIranica, we usually do not comment on issues beyond our academic interests in ancient Iran. However, it would be wrong, if we did not express our disappointment after hearing the news of the closure of ‘small Humanities programmes’ at the University of Copenhagen. As the University Post reports, the “Faculty of Humanities at the…

  • Third Perso-Indica Conference

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    The Sultanate Period and the Early Mughal Empire 3rd and 4th September, 2015 – Conference University of Delhi, India Conference_Program Abstracts Flyer and Map

  • Masters of Persian calligraphy

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    Congratulations to Hamidreza Ghelichkhani, who curated and annotated this delightful anthology in collaboration with Kambiz GhaneaBassiri. This anthology invites audiences to interact with select works of Iranian masters of calligraphy from the tenth to the twentieth century. These works were carefully chosen to represent the artistic canon that has shaped the world of calligraphy in…

  • Farāmarz, the Sistāni hero

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    van Zutphen, Marjolijn. 2014. Farāmarz, the Sistāni hero: Texts and traditions of the Farāmarznāme and the Persian epic cycle. Leiden/Boston: Brill. In Farāmarz, the Sistāni Hero Marjolijn van Zutphen discusses the manuscripts, storylines and main themes of the shorter and the longer Farāmarznāme (c. 1100), in relation to Ferdowsi’s Shāhnāme and several other later maṡnawis…

  • Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference

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    University of Vienna Tuesday-Friday, 2–5 August 2016 Conference Information The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) is pleased to announce that the Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference will be held in Vienna, Austria from August 2-5, 2016 at the University of Vienna. Onsite registration begins on the 2nd and the program extends until the evening…

  • Iran and the Caucasus

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    Volume 18, issue 4 of Iran and the Caucasus: Iran and the Caucasus 18(4).

  • The epic of Farāmarz

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    The new issue, vol. 24, of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute (BAI) has been published. As of this post, the journal’s website has not been updated to reflect the content of vol. 24, and the issue contains too many articles and reviews of interest to individually list them here. Michael Shenkar has made a…

  • Iran and the West

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    Call for Papers for a conference at the University of Warwick: Iran and the West: Converging Perspectives 1-3 July 2015

  • Biographical notices

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    BL’s Asian and African studies blog has a nice piece on George Percy Churchill’s biographical notices of Persian statesmen and notables.

  • Symposia Iranica’s second graduate conference on Iranian Studies

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    Symposia Iranica provides ‘postgraduates and early career scholars with the opportunity to present their research without the limitations of an overarching theme – as such, submissions related to any aspect of Iranian studies in the ancient through to contemporary periods within the humanities and social sciences are all welcome’. Call for Papers | Symposia Iranica…

  • Iran: A very short introduction

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    Ansari, Ali. 2014. Iran: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This Very Short Introduction presents a radical reinterpretation of Iranian history and politics, placing the Islamic Revolution in the context of a century of political change and social transformation. By considering the various factors that have contributed towards the construction of the idea…

  • The ancient world in an age of globalization

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    Geller, Markham (ed.). 2014. Melammu: The ancient world in an age of globalization (Proceedings 7). Edition Open Access. The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The globalization described in this volume extends over language barriers and literatures, showing…