Bibliographia Iranica

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  • Books as material and symbolic artifacts in religious book cultures

    Books as Material and Symbolic Artifacts in Religious Book CulturesBooks as Material and Symbolic Artifacts in Religious Book Cultures

    Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum: 28 & 29 May 2015

    The Käte Hamburger Kolleg Workshop on Books as Material and Symbolic Artifacts in Religious Book Cultures will analyze the connections between books and manuscripts as material artifacts and the formation of religious book cultures before the printing era. It will also explore the ways in which, in religious book production, the medium, in its forms of “human and institutional interactions,” influences the transmission of the religious message, allowing for the material format to receive further alterations from the religious message itself. Finally, this workshop will investigate interactions between modern religious groups and the very academic books which describe them.

    Programm of The KHK Workshop on Books as Religious Artifacts (May 28-29, 2015)

    Thursday, 28 May 2015

    • Costantino Moretti (Paris): “Non-Textual Uses in Buddhist Medieval China”
    • Grégoire Espesset (Bochum): “Petitioning in Pre-Modern Taoist Liturgy”
    • Vladimir Glomb (Bochum): “Sagehood for Young Boys: Confucian Primers in Traditional Korea”
    • Shervin Farridnejad (Berlin): “The Zoroastrian “Holy Book”: The Understanding and Construction of the Avesta as a Book in Zoroastrian Tradition and Oriental Studies”
    • Kianoosh Rezania (Bochum): “The Zoroastrian “Pahlavi Book”: The Genesis of the Dēnkard in the Early Abbasid Period”
    • Marie Efthymiou (Aix-Marseille): “Suras Collections in Central Asia: From Manuscripts Used in Daily Devotions to Teaching Subject in Quranic Schools”

    Friday, 29 May 2015

    • Ksenia Pimenova (Bochum): “Ethnographers, Their Books, and Their Shamans: The Scripturalization of Post-Soviet Tuvan Shamanism”
    • Mareile Haase (Bochum): “The Zagreb Mummy Wrappings: An Etruscan Linen Book from Egypt”
    • AnneMarie Luijendijk (Princeton): “Put them in an earthenware jar, in order that they may last for a long time (Jer. 32:14): On Saving and Discarding Sacred Books”
    • Flavia Ruani (Ghent): “Books of Protection, Books of Perdition: Book Imagery in Ephrem the Syrian’s Heresiology”
    • Eduard Iricinschi (Bochum): “No one in Rome really has time to attend readings (Pliny, Letters, 3.18.4): The Anxiety of Publishing Books in Late Antiquity”

  • Learning from the Magi

    Religious Studies presents: “Learning from the Magi: Zoroastrianism and the New Movement in Talmud Study” with Shai Secunda | Taube Center for Jewish Studies

    Friday, May 15, 2015 – 12:15pm – 1:30pm

    The lecture is part of a Zoroastrianism Studies Lecture Series sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University. For questions about the series, please contact Dr. Yuhan Vevaina (vevaina@stanford.edu).

    Source: Religious Studies presents: “Learning from the Magi: Zoroastrianism and the New Movement in Talmud Study” with Shai Secunda | Taube Center for Jewish Studies

  • Changes in Late Antique Legal Systems

    Kaiser Justinian. Mosaiken in Ravenna, St. Vitalis (Ausschnitt). Image Credit: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202 lizensiert unter the GNU Free Documentation License: www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html.

    Changes in Late Antique Legal Systems: Reception, Transformation and Recontextualization of Legal Terms

    International workshop organized by project C03 “Interaction and Change in Oriental Legal Systems. The Transfer of Normative Knowledge as Exemplified by Zoroastrian and Islamic Law (Seventh to Eleventh Centuries)” (Head: M. Macuch)

    May 22, 2015, 09:00 AM c.t. – 06:30 PM

    SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem

    Legal systems are characterized by sophisticated technical languages that make use of a multitude of juridical terms to describe mostly complex circumstances. Whereas legal terms on the one hand have a stabilizing function and serve the jurists for the categorization and evaluation of cases – what is especially true for the tradition-oriented systems of the Late Antiquity like the Roman-Byzantine, Zoroastrian, Islamic, Jewish or Christian canonical laws – they show on the other hand constant changes in their historical development with regard to content and meaning. Besides such endogenous factors in the change of meaning, also exogenous sources as the adoption of a term from an alien law system and its recontextualization are conceivable. In both cases it results in intended or unintended shifts of meaning that may have an impact on other terms or elements of the system, depending on the relevance of the term. It is in particular this modification of Late Antique legal systems caused by changes of legal terms that is subject of the workshop. It targets on an exemplary more detailed description and analysis of the further development of particular legal terms within the systems as well as in their interrelation.

    To register, please contact Dr. Iris Colditz: icolditz[at]campus.fu-berlin.de.

    Program

    9:15–9:30 a.mMaria Macuch (Berlin):
    Welcome and Introduction

    Panel 1: Rechtsbegriffe und -institutionen in transkulturellem Kontext
    9:30–10:15 a.mJohannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz):
    „Die Entstehung des christlichen waqf“
    10:15–11:00 a.mRichard Payne (Chicago):
    „Christianizing Stūrīh: Law, Reproduction, and Elite Formation in the Iranian Empire“
    11:00–11:30 a.mcoffee break
    11:30 a.m. –12:15 p.m.János Jany (Budapest):
    „Transmitters of Legal Knowledge: Dadestan, Fatwa, Responsum“
    12:15–1:45 p.m.lunch break

    Panel 2: Wandel von Rechtsbegriffen und Argumentationsformen im jüdischen und römischen Recht
    1:45–2:30 p.m.Ronen Reichman (Heidelberg):
    „‚Was die Schrift lehrt, geht aber doch aus einem Vernunftsargument hervor!‘: Über die Entwicklung eines (rechtspositivistischen [?]) Argumentationsmusters in der rabbinischen Literatur“
    2:30–3:15 p.m.Anna Seelentag (Frankfurt/M.):
    „Tutela und cura – Zur Annäherung zweier Rechtsbegriffe im römischen Recht“
    3:15–3:45 p.m.coffee break
    3:45–4:30 p.m.Johannes Platschek (München):
    „Arra in römischen Rechtstexten“
    4:30–5:15 p.m.Thomas Rüfner (Trier):
    „Ius, iudex, iurisdictio: Die Terminologie des römischen Prozessrechts in der Spätantike“
    5:15–5:30 p.m.coffee break
    5:30–6:30 p.m.Final Discussion

     

  • The family tree of Iranian

    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 9DA)
    Tea will be served from 4.15

  • Consejo Ibero-Safavid de Estudios Históricos

     Consejo Ibero-Safavid de Estudios Históricos. International Conference. MISSIONARIES IN THE SAFAVID WORLD

     

    Institute of History, CSIC.
    C/Albasanz 26-28, 28037 Madrid.
    10 – 11 March 2016.
    Directed by Enrique García Hernán, José Cutillas and Rudi Matthee.

    Proposals for papers should be sent to Dr. José Cutillas jcutillas@gmail.com with abstract (600 words) and cv (300 words), until 31st December 2015

    More information, please download the document Diptico.

  • The chronology of early Islam

    Wright Lecture Series

    The Chronology of Early Islam

    Prof. François de Blois

    The calendar and the system of timekeeping in Central Arabia at the beginning of Islamic history are discussed extensively in Arabic religious and scientific literature. My paper is an attempt, on the one hand, to confront these data with contemporaneous epigraphic and historic material and, on the other, to assess the arithmetical and astronomical plausibility of the data. This in turn sheds light on the problem of the chronology of early Islam and the reliability or otherwise of the sīra and maghāzī literature.

  • Digital humanities and text re-use

    The concept of text re-use in early Islamic historiography was first brought to my attention by François de Blois, whose courses were always so much more than just an introduction to a language such as Middle Persian. Recently, it has been Sarah Savant, who has drawn attention to text re-use and its application in the study of early Islamic literature. And now there is this very exciting Hackathon taking place in Göttingen in July 2015:

    Digital Humanities Hackathon on Text Re-Use

    ‘Don’t leave your data problems at home!’

    The Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities will host a Hackathon targeted at students and researchers with a humanities background who wish to improve their computer skills by working with their own data-set. Rather than teaching everything there is to know about algorithms, the Hackathon will assist participants with their specific data-related problem, so that they can take away the knowledge needed to tackle the issue(s) at hand. The focus of this Hackathon is automatic text re-use detection and aims at engaging participants in intensive collaboration. Participants will be introduced to technologies representing the state of the art in the field and shown the potential of text re-use detection. Participants will also be able to equip themselves with the necessary knowledge to make sense of the output generated by algorithms detecting text re-use, and will gain an understanding of which algorithms best fit certain types of textual data. Finally, participants will be introduced to some text re-use visualisations.

  • A preview of the first issue of DABIR

    I am really excited to announce that the first issue of DABIR is going to be out very soon. The table of contents is here. Working on this journal and issue alongside my friends and colleagues Parsa Daneshmand, Touraj Daryaee, and Shervin Farridnejad has been a great joy and privilege. Below is the official announcement of the preview:

    I am happy to announce that a dream that a few of us had has come true. “DABIR: Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review” is ready to be published online.

    Many years ago when I was in Iran we began an online journal in Persian and it ran for four volumes, but then it seems that it was too early of an idea. Then the idea was voiced again by my friends, such as Ali Mousavi that we needed journal to publish short notes and in a quick fashion. When I was a fellow in Oxford last year, I spent much time with Parsa Daneshmand who came up with the name of the journal and what it should entail. Peyvand Firouzeh at Cambridge was behind the design and the look of the journal; Scherwin Farridnejad was the other collaborator in making the look of it, as well as the content ready. Also, Khodadad Rezakhani who read and edited papers and gave much help. I have to thank my dear Natasha Rastegari who gave her time to organize and contacted the editorial board without asking anything in return.

    Finally, it is Arash Zeini who has spent so much of his time and energy to make this journal see the light of day. I thank the editorial board and contributors for the first volume (some on facebook): Ani Honarchian, Sara Mashayekh, Dominic Brookshaw, Matthew Canepa, Mario Rossi, Giusto Traina, Agnes Korn, Alka Patel, Richard Payne, Rolf Strootman, and Mohsen Zakeri.

    I was simply the conductor in this matter and this is what happens when you let people stay in places and think a bit longer than needed (at Oxford: OI coffee room and Cafe Rouge)!

    The journal will be part of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at UC Irvine and will be published three times in the academic year. It is peer reviewed and free and open access to all. This is the way of the future for academia.

    The ToC of the first issue is here.

    Touraj Daryaee

  • Lecture: Zoroastrian apocalyptic texts

    Zoroastrian apocalyptic texts as a historical source of early Islamic Iran

    A lecture by Domenico Agostini

    Date: 28 April 2015
    Location: Iran Forum, University of Tel Aviv

  • B.D. Kochnev Memorial Seminar

    coinB.D. Kochnev Memorial Seminar in Central Asian and Middle Eastern Numismatics

    Seventh Meeting, March 14, 2015
    Hofstra University, Calkins Hall 206

    Seminar is free and open to public
    Please RSVP to Aleksandr.Naymark@hofstra.edu

    Session 1
    10:00 – 11:00 am

    Dmitrii Markov (New York), Aleksandr Naymark (Hofstra University)
    “A Hoard of Archaic Greek Coins from the Banks of Amu-Darya. Preliminary Report”

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