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  • New issue of Electrum

    The latest issue of Electrum features a number of articles relevant to Iranian Studies. 

    Electrum, Volume 22 (2015).
    Table of Contents:
    • Frank L Holt, Alexander the Great at Bactra: A Burning Question, 9–15.
    • Laurianne Martinez-Sève, Ai Khanoum and Greek Domination in Central Asia, 17–46.
    • Pierre Leriche, La découverte de l’Ancienne Termez, métropole de la Bactriane du Nord, 47–85.
    • Antonio Panaino, Ὁμόγλωττοι παρὰ μικρον?,  87–106.
    • Touraj Daryaee, Soodabeh Malekzadeh, King Huviška, Yima, and the Bird: Observations on a Paradisiacal State, 107–114.
    • Carlo Lippolis, Niccolo Manassero, Storehouses and Storage Practices in Old Nisa (Turkmenistan), 115–142.
    • Vito Messina, Mehr Kian, Lasser-scanner Survey at Kong-e Yār ‘Alīvand. Research of the Iranian-Italian Joint Expedition in Kūzestān, 143–154.
    • Alain Chenevier, Crépuscule de l’Empire parthe – Les dernières drachmes, 155–158.
    • The Syriac Book of the Laws of the Countries, Eusebius’ Preparation for the Gospel, and the Clementine Recognitions: Early Witnesses for Christianity in Central Asia?, 159–171.
    • Omar Coloru, I Am Your Father! Dynasties and Dynastic Legitimacy on Pre-Islamic Coinage between Iran and Northwest India, 173–199.
    • Fabrizio Sinisi, The Deities on the Kushano-Sasanian Coins, 201–225.
    • Nikolaus Schindel, Sakastan in the Fourth and Fifth Century AD. Some Historical Remarks Based on the Numismatic Evidence, 227–248.
    • Paul J. Kosmin, Review: Paul J. Kosmin, The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA–London 2014, pp. 423, b/w ill., 9 maps, ISBN 978-0-674-72882-0 (Edward Dąbrowa).

     

    Electrum has been published since 1997 by the Department of Ancient History at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow as a collection of papers and monographs. In 2010 it starts as journal with one issue per year.
     

  • New issue of the Silk Road

    The latest issue of The Silk Road features a number of articles relevant to Iranian Studies. The full journal and individual articles can be accessed online:

    The Silk Road, vol. 13, 2015.

  • A tribute to Éric Pirart

    The second issue of the Estudios Iranios y Turanios, which was launched last year by the Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios, has been published. This issue of the journal, entitled Homenaje a Éric Pirart en su 65º aniversario, collects a number of philological discussions in honour of Éric Pirart’s 65th birthday.

    The ToC is here.

  • Memorial Volume for Chahryar Adle

    bokhara 107

    Bukhara, No. 107 (Memorial Volume for Chahryar Adle). Tehran. 2015.- Via Ehsan Shavarebi.

    The 107th issue of Bukhara Magazine (July-August 2015) is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Chahryar Adle (1944-2015). Chahryar Adle, Iranian archaeologist specialised in art and architecture of Iran and Central Asia during the Islamic period, passed away in Paris on 21 June.
    This volume, edited by Ali Dehbashi, includes more than 50 papers in memory of the late Prof. Adle, by such scholars as Firouz Bagherzadeh, Mahmoud Mousavi, Rémy Boucharlat, Carlo G. Cereti, Marie-Christine David, Hekmatollah Mollasalehi, Ehsan Eshraghi, Rajab-Ali Labbaf-Khaniki, Ali Mousavi, Mehrdad Malekzadeh, Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam, Shahram Zare, Mohammad Taghi Ataee, Ehsan Shavarebi, etc. Also several papers and interviews of Prof. Adle are republished in this volume.
    The volume is in Persian and consists of 513 pages.

  • Newly launched peer-reviewed journal for Iranian Studies

    Image: Detail from "Youth reading", Persian miniature by Reza Abbasi (1565-1635), ca. 1625-26, Isfahan. © The Trustees of the British Museum, ME 1920.0917.02
    Image: Detail from “Youth reading”, Persian miniature by Reza Abbasi (1565-1635), ca. 1625-26, Isfahan. © The Trustees of the British Museum, ME 1920.0917.02

    DABIR: Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review, 2015, Vol 1, No. 1.

    The first issue of the Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review (DABIR) has been published and is available from the official website of DABIR.

    The Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review (DABIR) is an open access, peer-reviewed online open access journal published by the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. DABIR aims to quickly and efficiently publish brief notes and reviews relating to the pre-modern world in contact with Iran and Persianate cultures. The journal accepts submissions on art history, archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, manuscript studies, numismatics, philology and religion, from Jaxartes to the Mediterranean and from the Sumerian period through to the Safavid era (3500 BCE-1500 CE). Work dealing with later periods can be considered on request.

    Table of Contents:
    Articles

    1. Saber Amiri Pariyan: “A re-examination of two terms in the Elamite version of the Behistun inscription”
    2. Touraj Daryaee: “Alexander and the Arsacids in the manuscript MU29”
    3. Shervin Farridnejad: “Take care of the xrafstars! A note on Nēr. 7.5″
    4. Leonardo Gregoratti: “The kings of Parthia and Persia: Some considerations on the ‘Iranic’ identity in the Parthian Empire”
    5. Götz König: “Brief comments on the so-called Xorde Avesta (1)”
    6. Ali Mousavi: “Some thoughts on the rock-reliefs of ancient Iran”
    7. Khodadad Rezakhani: “A note on the Alkhan coin type 39 and its legend”
    8. Shai Secunda: “Relieving monthly sexual needs: On Pahlavi daštān-māh wizārdan“
    9. Arash Zeini: “Preliminary observations on word order correspondence in the Zand”

    Reviews

    1. Sajad Amiri Bavandpoor: “Review of Smith, Kyle. 2014. The Martyrdom and History of Blessed Simeon bar Sabba’e”
    2. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: “Review of Mayor, Adrienne. 2014. The Amazons. Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World”
    3. Yazdan Safaee: “Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd & James Robson. 2010. CTESIAS’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient”

    Special Issue

    1. Bruce Lincoln “Of dirt, diet, and religious others”

     

    DABIR

    Editor-in-Chief: Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)
    Editors: Parsa Daneshmand (Oxford University) and Arash Zeini (University of St Andrews)
    Book Review Editor: Shervin Farridnejad (Freie Universität Berlin)

  • Review of ‘The comprehensive history of Iran’

    Yazdan Safaee, one of BiblioIranica’s team members, has written useful and accessible reviews of the first five volumes of the 20 volume comprehensive history of Iran, which were announced by Shervin in May 2015. The reviews are in Persian and accessible from Yazdan’s own website:

  • Studies on Aramaic Magic Bowls and Related Subjects

    Aramaic Studies, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2015. Special issue: “Studies on Aramaic Magic Bowls and Related Subjects”.

    The special issue of the Journal of Aramaic Studies, guest-edited by Siam Bhayro is devoted to the Aramaic magic bowls.

     

     

    Table of Contents

    Peter T. Lanfer: Why Biblical Scholars Should Study Aramaic Bowl Spells

    Ortal-Paz Saar: A Study in Conceptual Parallels: Graeco-Roman Binding Spells and Babylonian Incantation Bowls

    Siam Bhayro: On Early Jewish Literature and the Aramaic Magic Bowls

    Avigail Manekin Bamberger: Jewish Legal Formulae in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls

    Marco Moriggi: Jewish Divorce Formulae in Syriac Incantation Bowls

    Harriet Walker: Possible Psychological Roles of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls: Therapeutic Functions of Belief in Demons and the Practice of Incantations

  • The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi as World Literature

    The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi as World Literature

    Iranian Studies, volume 48, Number 3, May 2015. Special issue: “The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi as World Literature”

    The special issue of the Journal of Iranian Studies, guest-edited by Franklin Lewis is dedicated to studies on Shahname within a  “world literature”  framework.

    Iranian Studies is a peer reviewed journal of history, literature, culture and society, covering everywhere with a Persian or Iranian legacy, especially Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus and northern India.
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  • Iran Nameh: Volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2015)

    Irannameh-30-2Iran Nameh is a quarterly journal of Iranian Studies. A special issue, volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2015), is  dedicated to Ehsan Yarshater
    for his lifetime service to Iranian Studies.

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  • Review: The Iranian Talmud

    Herman, Geoffrey. 2015. Review of Secunda, Shai. 2014. The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in its Sasanian context. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. AJS Review 39(1), 170–173.