Arash Zeini

Tag: Zand

  • Word order correspondence in the Zand

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    Arash Zeini
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    My article in the first issue of DABIR: Zeini, Arash. 2015. Preliminary observations on word order correspondence in the Zand. DABIR 1(1). 31–35.

  • Wrestling with the Demons

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    Arash Zeini
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    Moazami, Mahnaz. 2014. Wrestling with the Demons of the Pahlavi Widēwdād. Transcription, Translation, and Commentary (Iran Studies 9). Leiden/Boston: Brill. The Pahlavi Widēwdād (Vidēvdād), The Law (Serving to Keep) Demons Away, a fifth-century Middle Persian commentary on the Avestan Vidēvdād, describes rules and regulations that serve to prevent pollution caused by dead matter, menstrual discharges,…

  • Secrecy and canonisation

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    Arash Zeini
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    Bahari Lecture Series: “Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity” 20 May (Week 4) Arash Zeini (University of St Andrews): Secrecy and canonisation in Sasanian Iran: A scholastic reading of the Zand Tuesday at 5pm Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford (OCLA)