Arash Zeini

Auch Gedanken fallen manchmal unreif vom Baum.

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  • The 2015 UCLA Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series will be delivered by Prof. Maria Macuch: Sasanian law in its social context November 9-18, 2015

  • Some nifty and original observations by my Shervin Farridnejad on a passage in the Nērangestān, discussing the priestly duty concerning the care of xrafstars, commonly referred to as obnoxious creatures: Farridnejad, Shervin. 2015. Take care of the xrafstars! A note…

  • Zeini, Arash. 2015. Preliminary Remarks on Middle Persian <nc> in the Pahlavi Documents. In Anna Krasnowolska & Renata Rusek-Kowalska (eds.), Studies on the Iranian World I: Before Islam, 67–73. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press.

  • 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.

  • Goldman, Leon. 2015. Rašn Yašt: The Avestan hymn to ‘Justice’ (Beiträge zur Iranistik 39). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. This book contains a critical edition of the Avestan language composition known as the Rašn Yašt, or ‘Hymn to Justice’. The text is…

  • 30 people within Cambridge, and another 40 in the surrounding areas have pledged to house refugees. This is just within the last few days and to just one organisation. Another 5,495 have volunteered within the UK to help once the…

  • If you are planning to go to Calais as a volunteer, please read this piece by Alison Playford. Thinking of going to Calais? I’ve just got back and would like to share some thoughts with you. It appears that a…

  • Bibliographia Iranica would like to invite publishers, colleagues and our readers to send us information about upcoming publications that are relevant to our field of interest. Please use the ‘Contact‘ page to send us the bibliographic information. Your submission will be…

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

  • 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…

  • We are now accepting notes and reviews for the next issues of DABIR. Please contact us, if you would like to contribute a paper. The journal accepts submissions on art history, archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, manuscript studies, numismatics, philology and…

  • An interesting ZDF documentary about racist ideologies in Germany. 35 minutes into the documentary Josef Wiesehöfer is interviewed about the term ‘Arier’ followed by interviews  with people in Abyaneh, presumably because they are believed to be Zoroastrians! The journey to…

  • BBC Radio 4 is currently exploring aspects of Indian history based on biographies of 50 important Indian historical figures: Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. Yesterday’s programme happened to be on the Indian grammarian Panini, whose grammar—according to this programme—played a…

  • Dr Agnes Korn (University of Frankfurt) will be addressing the Indo-European Seminar on the subject The family tree of Iranian and its problems   At 4.30 pm on Wed. June 17, Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site Cambridge (CB3…

  • As was planned, I have now moved this blog to a new location at Bibliographia Iranica. While purpose and scope remain largely the same, the new blog will be maintained by Sajad Amiri, Shervin Farridnejad, Yazdan Safaee and myself (Arash…