Vol. 52 (2019) of the journal Iranian Studies has now been published. This volume contains issues 1 & 2.
Category: Journal
Studia Iranica (47/1)
The first issue of Studia Iranica 47 (2018) has been published. For a table of contents and access to individual articles, see below or visit this page.
- Antonio PANAINO: The ‘Trepidation’ of the Sun, the 57 Years of the Resurrection and the Late Mazdean Speculations on the Apocalypse
- Shokouh KHOSRAVI, Sajjad ALIBAIGI & Asghar RASHNO: The Ossuary of the Palang Gerd Fire Temple: New Evidence of Zoroastrian Funerary Practices during the Sasanid Period in Western Iran, Kermanshah
- David ZAKARIAN: P’aṙanjem and her Husbands: A New Hypothesis on the Marriages of the Armenian Queen
- Viola ALLEGRANZI: Les inscriptions persanes du tombeau d’Abū Ja’far Moḥammad à Ghazni (VIe-XIIe s.): La poésie comme lieu de mémoire et d’histoire
- Osamu OTSUKA: Qāshānī, the First World Historian: Research on his Uninvestigated Persian General History, Zubdat al-Tawārīkh
- Comptes rendus
Studies in Early Medieval Iranian Religious Manuscript Traditions
Barbati, Chiara & Olga Chunakova (eds.). 2018. Studies in early medieval Iranian religious manuscript traditions other than Islamic. Written Monuments of the Orient 2(8). Institute of Oriental Manuscripts: Russian Academy of Sciences.
This edited volume is part of the English version of the biannually published journal Written Monuments of the Orient, issued at Institute of Oriental Manuscripts: Russian Academy of Sciences.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Chiara Barbati — 3
Enrico Morano. Some Сodicological Remarks on the Сorpus of the Berlin Turfan Manichaean Sogdian Manuscripts in Manichaean Script: among Books, Glossaries, Letters, Booklets, Bilingual and Trilingual Texts, Normal, Bold and Cursive Script — 11
Olga Chunakova. Middle Iranian Manichaean Manuscripts. Interpretation and Identification — 39
Christiane Reck. Short Survey on Sogdian Manuscriptology — 51
Christiane Reck and Adam Benkato. ‘Like a Virgin’: A Sogdian Recipe for Restoring Virginity and the Sanskrit Background of Sogdian Medicine — 67
Chiara Barbati. On the Numbering of Quires in the Christian Sogdian and Syriac Manuscript Fragments in the Turfan Collection (Berlin) and the Krotkov Collection (St. Petersburg) — 92Bulletin of the Asia Institute
Volume 28 of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute has been published.
To obtain a copy, please contact Carol Bromberg: bai34@comcast.netTable of contents
- Harry Falk, “The Five Yabghus of the Yuezhi”
- Shai Secunda, “‘Lost Property to the King!’: The Talmudic Laws of Lost Property in the Shadow of Sasanian Bureaucracy”
- Zhang Zhan,”Secular Khotanese Documents and the Administrative System in Khotan”
- Salman Aliyari Babolghani,”What Was the Instrument That Zurwān Bestowed on Ahreman in the Wizīdagīhā ī Zādspram 1.29; 34.35?*”
- Siam Bhayro, “A Jewish Aramaic Magic Bowl Containing the Formula of Ḥanina ben Dosa, and the Problem of Psalm 24:8b in the Magic Bowls”
- Dieter Weber, “Pahlavi Documents of Windādburzmihrābād, the Estate of a Zoroastrian Entrepreneur in Early Islamic Times (With an Excursus on the Origin of the Fulanabad-Type of Village Names)”
- Prods Oktor Skjærvø, “The Pahlavi Optative and Some Feminine Forms in īy”
- Anca Dan, Frantz Grenet and Nicholas Sims-Williams, “Homeric Scenes in Bactria and India: Two Silver Plates with Bactrian and Middle Persian Inscriptions”
Reviews
- Schrenk. Textilien des Mittelmeerraumes aus spätantiker bis früislamicher Zeit (CAB)
- Von Fircks and Schorta. Oriental Silks in Medieval Europe (CAB)
- Wang Bo, Wang Mingang, Minawar Happar, and Lu Lipeng. Textile Treasures of Zaghunluq. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum (CAB)
Cities of Medieval Iran
Cities of medieval Iran, edited by David Durand-Guédy, Roy P. Mottahedeh & Jürgen Paul has been published, as vol. 16, issue 1–2 of the journal Eurasian Studies (2018).
Table of contents
- Preface By: David Durand-Guédy, Roy P. Mottahedeh and Jürgen Paul Pages: 1–4
- Cities in Medieval Iran: a Review of Recent Publications By: Jürgen Paul Pages: 5–20
- Jean Aubin’s Article “Elements for the Study of Urban Agglomerations in Medieval Iran” in Context Pages: 21–38
- Iranian Cities: Settlements and Water Management from Antiquity to the Islamic Period By: Rocco Rante Pages: 39–76
- “From Shahristān to Medina” Revisited By: Donald Whitcomb Pages: 77–99
- Why Nishapur? By: Richard W. Bulliet Pages: 100–123
- Inherited Landscapes in Muslim Bactra By: Etienne de la Vaissière Pages: 124–141
- Among Saints and Poets: The Spiritual Topography of Medieval Shiraz By: Denise Aigle Pages: 142–176
- The Fortified Landscape of Isfahan By: Ali Shojaee Esfahani Pages: 177–216
- Yazd: a “Good and Noble City” and an “Abode of Worship” By: Jamsheed K. Choksy Pages: 217–252
- Isfahan during the Turko-Mongol Period (11th-15th Centuries) By: David Durand-Guédy Pages: 253–312
- Balkh, from the Seljuqs to the Mongol Invasion By: Jürgen Paul Pages: 313–351
- Local Elites and Dynastic Succession: Tabriz prior to, under and following Mongol Rule (Sixth/Twelfth to Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries) By: Daniel Zakrzewski Pages: 352–394
- Medieval Kashan: Crossroads of Commerce and Culture By: Mehrdad Amanat and Roy P. Mottahedeh Pages: 395–429
- The History of Iranian Cities through their Books: What Ms. Köprülü 01589 Tells Us about 8th/14th Century Shiraz By: Sarah Bowen Savant and Majid Montazer Mahdi Pages: 430–464
- Medieval Lexicography on Arabic and Persian Terms for City and Countryside By: Roy P. Mottahedeh Pages: 465–478
Hanns-Peter Schmidt (1930-2017) Gedenkschrift
The 6th volume of DABIR is a Gedenkschrift to honour Hanns-Peter Schmidt (1930-2017), an excellent German scholar of Indo-Iranian studies, who mainly worked on the Vedas and the Gāθās, as well as Indian mythology and the Zoroastrian religion.
You can download the whole issue here.
ToC
- Samra Azarnouche: A Third Exegesis of the Avesta? New Observations on the Middle Persian Word ayārdag
- Alberto Cantera: Textual performative variation in the Long Liturgy: the ceremonies of the last ten days of the year
- Touraj Daryaee: Kərəsāspa’s Wet Dream
- Stephanie W. Jamison: A Golden Amulet in Vedic and Avestan
- William W. Malandra: Artaxerxes’ ‘paradise’
- Antonio Panaino: Temper and self-control in the Persian King’s ideal Portrait
- Antonio Panaino: The Avestan Priestly College and its Installation
- Daniel T. Potts: Arboriculture in ancient Iran: Walnut (Juglans regia), plane (Platanus orientalis) and the “Radde dictum”
- Nicholas Sims-Williams: A Newly Identifijied Sogdian Fragment from the Legend of Saint George
- Martin Schwartz: A Preliterate Acrost ic in the Gathas: Crosst extual and Compositional Evidence
- Dastur Firoze M. Kotwal: The Zoroastrian Nīrangdīn Ritual and an Old Pahlavi Text with Transcription
- Michael Witzel: (On) The reimport of Veda traditions to Kashmir in the early 15th century
- Jamsheed K. Choksy and Narges Nematollahi: The Middle Persian Inscription from a Shipwreck in Thailand: Merchants, Containers, and Commodities
- Mahmoud Omidsalar: Of Teeth, Ribs, and Reproduct ion in Classical Persian
- Velizar Sadovski: Nominalkomposita, Neowurzelbildungen und zugrundeliegende syntaktische Konstruktionen im Veda und dem Avesta
New Perspectives on Late Antique Iran and Iraq
Pregill, Michael (ed.). 2018. New perspectives on late antique Iran and Iraq. Mizan. Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations 3(1).
Aramaic incantation bowl from Sasanian Babylonia, 4th-7th c., currently held in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (B2945; courtesy Penn Museum Blog) This volume of the peer-reviewed, open access Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations presents several articles (and a provocative postscript) centering on the theme of “New Perspectives on Late Antique Iran and Iraq.” The articles featured here originated with a pair of conference panels convened in 2016. The first was held during the summer of 2016 at the Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference at the University of Vienna, August 2–5, 2016; the second followed in the fall of that year, convened during the 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association held in Boston, November 17–20, 2016.
ToC
– Touraj Daryaee: “How the Sasanians Saw the Late Antique World: A Persianate View of the Interconnectedness of Eurasia”
– Isabel Toral-Niehoff: “Al-Ḥīra: An Arab Late Antique Metropolis in Sasanian Iraq”
– Shai Secunda: “East LA: Margin and Center in Late Antiquity Studies and the New Irano-Talmudica”
– Teresa Bernheimer: “The Revolt of Qaṭarī b. al-Fujāʿa (d. 79/698) and the Kharijite Revolts of Early Islamic Iran: Social Change between Late Antiquity and Early Islam”
– Rahim Shayegan: “On Diachrony in Sasanian Studies”
– Jason Mokhtarian: “Religious Polemics in Sasanian Writings”
– Thomas Carlson: “The Long Shadow of Sasanian Christianity: The Limits of Iraqi Islamization to 950”
– Mimi Hanaoka: “Authority and Identity in Early Medieval Persianate Islamic Historiography: Methologies for Reading Hybrid Identities and Imagined Histories”Historia I Świat
Issue seven of Historia i Świat (2018) has been published. A number of the contributions relate to Iranian Studies.Looking East: Iranian History and Culture under Western Eyes
Looking East: Iranian History and Culture under Western EyesThe latest issue of journal Electrum features Electrum, with the issue gathering the contribution of the workshop “Looking History: Iranian History and Culture under Western Eyes” held at 2016 in Ravenna, Italy.
- Paolo Ognibene: “Sguardi incrociati greco-scitici”
- Christopher Tuplin: “War and Peace in Achaemenid Imperial Ideology”
- Francesca Gazzano: “The King’s speech. La retorica dei re persiani fra Eschilo, Erodoto e Tucidide”
- Federicomaria Muccioli: “Peucesta, tra lealismo macedone e modello persiano”
- Omar Coloru: “Potere e territorio. Gli Achemenidi nei Geographikà di Strabone”
- Leonardo Gregoratti: “Corbulo versus Vologases: A Game of Chess for Armenia”
- Eran Almagor: “Plutarch and the Persians”
- Edward Dąbrowa: “Tacitus on the Parthians”
- Tommaso Gnoli: “Mitrei del Vicino Oriente: una facies orientale del culto misterico di Mithra”
- Giusto Traina: “L’Armenia di Ammiano Marcellino”
- Andrea Piras: “Persianao, mago e guerriero. Note sulla caratterizzazione di Mani e dei manichei nelle fonti greco-latine del IV secolo”
- Antonio Panaino: “Iranica nella Disputatio de Christo in Persia”
- Andrea Gariboldi: “Pratiche economiche e monetali nei documenti pahlavi del Tabaristān (VIII sec.)”
- Reviews
