Auch Gedanken fallen manchmal unreif vom Baum.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I haven’t seen the ToC of this book, but know that Matthew Canepa has a chapter here, entitled Dynastic sanctuaries and the transformation of Iranian kingship between Alexander and Islam, focusing on the ‘Middle Iranian’ period. It is an excellent…
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Map of the Zerafshan valley
Etienne de la Vaissière has kindly shared this map of the Zerafshan valley in the 7th century on academia.edu. He states: Map drawn for my Histoire des marchands sogdiens, Paris: Collège de France, 2002, map 5. Please feel free to modify…
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Palmyra: Trade families, city and territory
Gregoratti, Leonardo. 2015. Palmyra: trade families, city and territory through the epigraphic sources. In Giorgio Affanni, Cristina Baccarin, Laura Cordera, Angelo Di Michele & Katia Gavagnin (eds.), Broadening Horizons 4, Conference of young researchers working in the Ancient Near East,…
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Workshop: Iran and Islam
Iran and Islam: Early Encounters. Formation of Islam and Transformation of Iranian Religious Traditions 12 March 2015 09:00–13 March 2015 18:00, Workshop Room: FNO 02/ 40-46 Contact: Kianoosh Rezania For more information, see the workshop schedule
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Sasanian royalist ideology
Sasanian royalist ideology and Zoroastrian millennialism Lecture by François de Blois, University College London, at the Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge, Friday 06March, 5.30pm.
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Persian in Yuan China
Haw, Stephen. 2014. The Persian language in Yuan-Dynasty China: A reappraisal. East Asian History 39. 5–32. It has often been claimed that Persian was an important lingua franca in the Yuan empire. A recent article by Professor David Morgan has…
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Iranische Personennamen
Hutter, Manfred. 2015. Iranische Personennamen in der Hebräischen Bibel (Iranisches Personennamenbuch Bd. 7 / Faszikel 2, Iranische Onomastik 14, Sitzungsberichte der Philosophisch-historischen Klasse 860). Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Der Band verbucht insgesamt 54 Namen der Hebräischen Bibel (einschließlich…
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Parthians in the Roman Empire
Gregoratti, Leonardo. 2015. In the land West of the Euphrates: The Parthians in the Roman Empire. In Pietro Maria Militello & Hakan Öniz (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th symposium on Mediterranean archaeology, held at the University of Catania 3–5 March…
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Vers une édition de la liturgie longue zoroastrienne
Cantera, Alberto. 2014. Vers une édition de la liturgie longue zoroastrienne: Pensées et travaux préliminaires (Cahiers de Studia Iranica 51). Peeters Publishers. The long liturgy is the most important ceremony in Zoroastrian priestly tradition. Most extant Avestan texts have been…
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Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian, and Kidarite Coins
Jongeward, David & Joe Cribb. 2015. Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian, and Kidarite Coins. American Numismatic Society. This catalogue presents all the Kushan coins in the American Numismatic Society, with selected illustrations, detailed descriptions and commentary. The production system of Kushan coinage is…
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Achaemenid administrative tablets
Stolper, Matthew & Michael Fisher. 2015. Achaemenid administrative tablets 3: Fragments from Old Kandahar, Afghanistan. ARTA: Achaemenid Research on Texts and Archaeology 1. 1–27.
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The Babylonian version of the Achaemenid inscriptions
Daneshmand, Parsa. 2015. New phraseology and literary style in the Babylonian version of the Achaemenid inscriptions. In Alfonso Archi (ed.), Tradition and innovation in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 57th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Rome 4–8 July 2011.…
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MScT Scholarship in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh
Scholarships seem to be available to those who wish to study for an MSc in Persian Civilization at Edinburgh. For more information, see this link.
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Farāmarz, the Sistāni hero
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…
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Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference
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…