Bibliographia Iranica

A predominantly bibliographic blog for Iranian Studies

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  • 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.

  • Iranica Antiqua, Volume 50

    Iranica Antiqua is one of the leading scholarly journals covering studies on the civilization of pre-Islamic Iran in its broadest sense. This annual publication, edited by the Department for Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Gent University, Belgium, contains preliminary excavation reports, contributions on archaeological problems, studies on different aspects of history, institutions, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and history of art of ancient Iran, as well as on cultural exchanges and relations between Iran and its neighbours. 

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  • Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL)

    The Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL), an initiative of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University, has been redesigned and relaunched:

    AWDL will identify, collect, curate, and provide access to a broad range of scholarly materials relevant to the study of the ancient world.

    The digital library is a treasure trove for anyone interested in the ancient world and naturally contains material relevant to Iranian Studies such as the digitised copy of the second volume of Henning’s selected papers or Back’s Die sassanidischen Staatsinschriften. Why not head over and read up on the Middle Persian word for beer, the dates of Mani’s life, the term for coriander or on a grain of mustard, topics that demonstrate the depth and breadth of Henning’s scholarship.

  • Iran and the Caucasus 18 (4)

    Iran and the Caucasus 18 (4)

    Volume 18, issue 4 of Iran and the Caucasus:

    Iran and the Caucasus 18(4).

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  • Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios

    Alberto Cantera and his team have launched a new journal, entitled Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios, with the aim to promote the study of Iran and Central Asia in Spain. The first volume has already been published and is available from academia.edu. A dedicated website is under construction.

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