Vol. 52 (2019) of the journal Iranian Studies has now been published. This volume contains issues 1 & 2.
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Das Weltreich der Perser
Rollinger, Robert & Kai Ruffing (eds.). 2018. Das Weltreich der Perser – Rezeption, Aneignung und Verargumentierung von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
The above book is supposed to be published by Harrassowitz. However, my pre scheduled notice got published before the actual publication. I am leaving the entry in place to maintain consistency across our other media. The below article, part of the above volume, is available from the author's Academia page.
In this volume:
Börm, Henning. 2018. Barbaren als Tyrannen. Das Perserbild in der klassizistischen griechischen Historiographie. In Robert Rollinger & K. Ruffing (eds.), Das Weltreich der Perser – Rezeption, Aneignung und Verargumentierung von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
A Thousand Judgements: Festschrift for Maria Macuch
Hintze, Almut, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst & Claudius Naumann (eds.). 2019. A thousand judgements: Festschrift for Maria Macuch. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
This volume in honour of Maria Macuch brings together twenty-six articles by friends and colleagues to celebrate the academic work of the foremost living expert of Sasanian law. The subjects covered here include Iranian linguistics and philology, Judeo-Persian, Zoroastrian law and religion, Manichaeism, and the Babylonian Talmud. They reflect the breadth of the work of Maria Macuch. The volume includes studies of important Iranian legal, grammatical and religious terms and titles, of the intercultural engagement between Zoroastrians, Manichaeans and Jews, and editions and studies of texts and text fragments in Pahlavi, Sogdian, Khotanese and Judeo-Persian languages. The book will be of special interest to legal, cultural and religious historians as well as to philologists and linguists.
Table of Contents (PDF)
- Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo: “Ritual Competence and Liability of Minors in Ancient Zoroastrianism. On Avestan dahmō.kərəta– and š́iiaoϑnāuuarəz-“
- Samra Azarnouche: “Les fonctions religieuses et la loi zoroastrienne: le cas du hērbed“
- David Buyaner: “Zur Haar- und Nagelpflege im Zoroastrismus. Beiträge zur Erklärung mittelpersischer Rechts- und Religionsterminologie. III.”
- Alberto Cantera: “About the Epithet pauruuaniia- of the Zoroastrian Sacred Girdle (Y 9.26)”
- Iris Colditz: “Eine vergessene zoroastrische Märtyrerin?”
- Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst: “Manichaean Book Quires”
- Yaakov Elman †: “The Torah of Temporary Marriage. A Study in Cultural History”
- Ela Filippone: “On Old Persian tačara- and its Elusive Meaning”
- Philippe Gignoux: “Les ‹ Mémoires › dans l’archive pehlevie de Berkeley/Berlin”
- Jost Gippert: “Onomastica Irano-Iberica. II. The Name of a Zoroastrian “Bishop””
- Rika Gyselen: “Les données de géographie administrative sassanide
- dans le Šahrestānīhā-ī Ērānšahr : une réévaluation”
- Almut Hintze: “Maria Macuch and Iranian Studies”
- Tal Ilan and Reuven Kiperwasser: “Virginity and Water: Between the Babylonian Talmud and Iranian Myth”
- Éva M. Jeremiás: “The Technical Term tarkīb “Compound” in the Indigenous Persian “Scientific” Literature”
- Judith Josephson: “Aristotle’s Theory of the Elements and Zoroastrian Dualism”
- Yishai Kiel and Prods Oktor Skjærvø: “Normative and Theological Dissent in Early Zoroastrian Law: Pahlavi Nīrangestān 23″
- Götz König: “Die Pahlavi-Literatur des 9./10. Jahrhunderts und ihre frühe Kodex Überlieferung (I)”
- Manfred Lorenz † : “Ignatius Pietraszewski – ein polnischer Iranist in Berlin”
- Mauro Maggi: “Annotations on the Book of Zambasta, V: Indian Parallels to 2.139 and the Musk of Khotan”
- Enrico Morano und Christiane Reck: “Vom ersten bis zum 30. Tag: Ein Blatt mit soghdischen prognostischen und medizinischen Kalendertexten”
- Antonio Panaino: “Thе Liturgical Daēnā. Speculative Aspects of the Next-of-Kin Unions”
- Adriano V. Rossi: “Iranian Words in čam°*”
- Martin Schwartz and Alexis Manaster Ramer: “Some Interlinguistic Iranian Conundrums”
- Nicholas Sims-Williams: “The Wisdom of Aḥiqar and the Wisdom of Ādurbād: A Manichaean Parallel”
- Dieter Weber: “The Story of Windād-Burzmihr. A Zoroastrian Entrepreneur in Early Islamic Times”
- Yutaka Yoshida: “Some New Interpretations of the Two Judeo-Persian Letters from Khotan”
Bulletin 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
Civilization of Iran: Past, Present, Future
Callieri, Pierfrancesco & Adriano Valerio Rossi (eds.). 2018. Civiltà dell’Iran: passato, presente, futuro (atti del Convegno Internazionale Roma, 22-23 febbraio 2013); (Il novissimo Ramusio 6). Roma: Scienze e lettere.This book is a collection of papers presented at the international conference “Civiltà dell’Iran: passato, presente, futuro” took place in 2013 at Sapienza Università di Roma and Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale ‘Giuseppe Tucci’.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
Iran and America: A forgotten friendship
Potts, Daniel Thomas. 2018. Iran and America: A forgotten friendship. The Conversation.As President Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Iran heats up again, it is worth recalling a time when the two countries had a distinctly different relationship.
Potts, Daniel Thomas. 2018.