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Bibliographia Iranica

A predominantly bibliographic blog for Iranian Studies

History and Culture of the Ancient Near East
Binder, Carsten, Henning Börm & Andreas Luther (eds.). 2016. Diwan. Untersuchungen zu Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Ostens und des östlichen Mittelmeerraumes im Altertum. Festschrift für Josef Wiesehöfer zum 65. Geburtstag. Duisburg: Wellem Verlag.
This volume presents a collection of 32 articles contributed by historians, numismatists and scholar of Ancient Near East history and historiography in celebration of Josef Wiesehöfer 65th birthday.
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13/05/2016
Darius III: The Last Great King
Safaee, Yazdan. 2016. Darius III: The Last Great King. Tehran: Hamisheh.
In comparison to his Macedonian antagonist, Darius III has attracted less attention. The present work is an analysis of the events leading to his reign.The author also deals with problems Darius was facing before Alexander’s attacks, and then the battles between the two armies which led to the end of the Empire.
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12/05/2016
Folly and Violence in the Court of Alexander the Great and his Successors?
Howe, Time & Sabine Müller (eds.). 2016. Folly and Violence in the Court of Alexander the Great and his Successors?. Bochum & Freiburg: Projekt verlag.
The ancient Greco-Roman sources on the history of Alexander III and the Successors contain numerous episodes on diverse forms of Macedonian violence. Viewed from a mocking, moralistic perspective, the Macedonians served as a distorted mirror in which Greeks and Romans asserted their identities. The theme of Macedonian violence was also present in Greek comedy. This volume explores four case studies aiming at the deconstruction of these Greco-Roman topoi. The articles examine images of the Macedonians, Alexander, and Demetrius Poliorcetes analyzing the dimensions and expressions of Greco-Roman bias and its socio-political background.
Table of contents
- Time Howe & Sabine Müller: “Introduction: Does the cliché suffice?”
- Sulochana Asirvatham: “Youthful Folly and Intergenerational Violence in Greco-Roman Narratives on Alexander the Great”
- Matti Borchert: “Between Debauchery and Ludicrousness – Alexander the Great and the Golden Plane Tree”
- Sabine Müller: “Make It Big: The ‘New Decadence’ of the Macedonians under Alexander in Greco-Roman Narratives“
- Frances Pownall: “Folly and Violence in Athens Under the Successors”
- The Editors and Contributors
08/05/2016
An unusual Khotanese terracotta head from the Sherabad oasis
Stančo, Ladislav. 2015. An unusual Khotanese terracotta head from the Sherabad oasis. Studia Hercynia XIX(1). 218–226.
This paper deals with a newly found terracotta head from the Sherabad District, southern Uzbekistan. Its probable origin in the eastern Turkestan region of Khotan as well as its iconographic peculiarities and their interpretation is discussed.
07/05/2016
Sources of the Indo-Iranian Liturgies
To the sources of the Indo-Iranian Liturgies
June 9th and 10th 2016, University of Liege
International conference to be held at the department of “Langues et religions du monde indo-iranien ancien” at the University of Liege. This conference is organized by Philippe Swennen, Céline Redard and Hamid Moein and will take place on June 9th and 10th.
Programme:
- J. Kellens: “Ahu, mainiiu, ratu“
- A. Cantera: “The threefold structure of the Long Liturgy and its daily times of celebration”
- J. Jurewicz: “Fire and the immortal self. The meaning of Vedic sacrifice”
- N. Nishimura: “On the first mantra section of the Yajurveda-Saṁhitā”
- Ph. Swennen: “Lecture de l’ājyaśastra“
- K. Amano: “What is ‘knowledge’ justifying a ritual action? Uses of yá evám véda / yá ev vidván in the Maitrāyaṇī Samhitā”
- C. Redard: “Les āfrīnagāns”
- A. Panaino: “Mysteries and dangers of the Mazdean Nocturnal Liturgy”
- A. Hintze: “Rejected Ritual Practices”
- M. Hale: “Interpreting the Indo-Iranian Tradition of the Gathas: the evidence of the Pahlavi and Sanskrit translations”
- E. Doyama: “Reflections on YH 40,1 from the Perspective of Indo-Iranian Culture”
- H. Moein: “Ritual Instructions in the Rivayats”
- M.Á. Andrés-Toledo: “The Vedic and the Avestan Investitures with the Sacred Girdle”
- G. König: “daēnā, xratu and the mystical view. Some considerations to Alberto Cantera’s essay ‘Talking with god’”
- J. Ferrer: “La récitation de l’alphabet avestique dans les rituels : innovation ou archaïsme?”
- J. Houben: “The Indo-Iranian tradition and ancient Indian ritual and conceptual innovations”
- T. Goto: “Bergung des gesunkenen Sonnenlichts im Rigveda und Avesta”
- É. Pirart: “L’idée d’hospitalité dans le sacrifice indo-iranien”
06/05/2016
The concept of Iran: Transition and revival
A panel discussion in Persian
Panelists:
Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine
Hossein Kamaly, Columbia University
Ali Mousavi, University of California, Los Angeles
Parvaneh Pourshariati, New York City College of Technology (CUNY) & New York University
Moderator: Nayereh Tohidi, Professor and Director of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, CSUN
Sunday, May 8, 2016
4:00 PM
27/04/2016
Iranian Studies: A volume in honour of Michael Morony
Iranian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 2, 2016. Special issue: “Sasanian Iran and beyond: A special volume in honour of Michael G. Morony and his contributions to late antique history“. Guest Editors: Touraj Daryaee and Khodadad Rezakhani.
Table of contents
- Touraj Daryaee & Khodadad Rezakhani: “Guest Editors’ Introduction“
- Touraj Daryaee & Khodadad Rezakhani: “Michael Morony, An Academic Biography“
- Touraj Daryaee: “The Limits of Sasanian History: Between Iranian, Islamic and Late Antique Studies“
- Khodadad Rezakhani: “From the “Cleavage” of Central Asia to Greater Khurasan: History and Historiography of Late Antique East Iran“
- Haleh Emrani: “Who Would be Mine for the Day!”: Irano-Judaic Marriage Customs in Late Antiquity
- Scott McDonough: “The “Warrior of the Lords”: Smbat Bagratuni at the Center and Periphery of Late Sasanian Iran“
- Greg Fisher & Philip Wood: “Writing the History of the “Persian Arabs”: The Pre-Islamic Perspective on the “Naṣrids” of al-Ḥīrah“
- Siamak Adhami: “On the Seclusion of Women in Antiquity“
26/04/2016
The Achaemenids and the Imperial Signature
The Achaemenids and the Imperial Signature: Persepolis – Arachosia – Bactria
A lecture by Wouter Henkelman

25/04/2016
Zoroastrianism: History, Themes and Current Trends
Panaino, Antonio. 2016. Zoroastrismo: storia, temi, attualità. Brescia: Morcelliana.
Zoroastrianism is one of the oldest living religions, which can be traced back at least to the sixth century BC. In its thousand-year history, Zoroastrianism has experienced profound and sometimes radical changes, however its ethical characteristic nature has less changed. The contribution of Zoroastrianism to the religious history of humanity is fundamental: from the ethical dualism to the conception of the history of salvation, and the eschatology, the resurrection of the body and the individual judgment etc. Based on a deep understanding of the sources of today’s scholarship on Zoroastrainism, of which the author is one of the most important and well-known characters, the book traces the history of Zoroastrisnism from the begining up to modern time. Furthermore the book presents a comprehensive account of Zoroastrian thought and rituals as well an uptodate discussion on the condition of contemporary Zoroastrianism, in particular among the Pārsis.

Table of Contents (see the ToC here as PDF):
- Lo Zoroastrismo nel suo sviluppo storico
- Il pensiero zoroastriano e Ia sua espressione rituale
- Lo Zoroastrismo dalIa caduta dell’Impero Sasanide alla sua condizione contemporanea
- Bibliografia critica e Sitografia
- Apparato iconogrfico
- Luoghi da visitare
- Breve raccolta antologica di fonti
Antonio Panaino is professor of ancient Iranian philology and hitory of religion at the University of Bologna.
24/04/2016
Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period
Granerod, Gard. 2016. Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period: Studies in the Religion and Society of the Judaean Community at Elephantine . Walter De Gruyter.
The book argues that the Aramaic documents from Elephantine dating to the Achaemenid period offer not only important glimpses of Judaean religion in the Persian period but that the religion of the Judaeans in Elephantine is among the best historically verifiable cases of Persian period Yahwism. The documents have the potential of functioning as an archive that can revise the canonised image of the Judaean religion in the Persian period.
23/04/2016