Bibliographia Iranica

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Tag: Pahlavi Documents

  • Sasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World

    Farridnejad, Shervin & Touraj Daryaee (eds.). 2022. Sasanian studies: Late antique Iranian world | Sasanidische Studien: Spätantike iranische Welt. Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

    The first issue of theSasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World is now published. The Sasanian Studies is a refereed journal that publishes papers on any aspect of the Sasanian Empire and ist neighboring late antiquity civilizations. The journal welcomes essays on archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, numismatics, religion and any other disciplines which focuses on the Sasanian world. This annual publication focuses especially on recent discoveries in the field, historiographical studies, as well as editions and translations of texts and inscriptions. We aim to facilitate dialogue and contact among scholars of Sasanian Studies around the world.

    Table of Contents (PDF):

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  • Sasanian Persia and the Tabarestan Archive

    Gyselen, Rika (ed.). 2019. Sasanian Persia and the Tabarestan Archive (Res Orientales 27). Bures sur Yvette: Groupe d’Etude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient.

    • James Howard-Johnston: «World War in Eurasia at the End of Antiquity»
    • Nils Purwins: «The Noble Ones of Eranshahr: Rank Titles and a Comparison with the Imperium Romanum».

    The Tabarestan Archive (8th century)

    • Dieter Weber: «Pahlavi Legal Documents from Tabarestan. Two Claims and a Re-evaluation of Crop Yields: A Philological Study of Tab. 21, 22 and 24»
    • Maria Macuch: «Pahlavi Legal Documents from Tabarestan. Two Claims and a Re-evaluation of Crop Yields: The Juristic Context of Tab. 21, 22 and 24»
    • Rika Gyselen: «Les bulles de l’Archive du Tabarestan: quelques aspects matériels des scellements».

  • Three Papyri Revisited

    Weber, Dieter. 2018. Three Pahlavi papyri revisited. Sasanika Papyrological Studies , No. 2.

    Weber revisits three Pahlavi papyri from the period of Sasanian occupation of Egypt (619–628 CE).

  • Middle Persian Papyri, Ostraca and Parchments: An Introduction

    Zeini, Arash. 2018. Middle Persian papyri, ostraca and parchments: An introduction. Sasanika Papyrological Studies , No. 1.

    This essay discusses the state of Middle Persian papyrological, ostraca and parchments studies since its beginning to the present. Dr. Zeini presents a history of the discovery of the Sasanian papyri from Egypt in the nineteenth century, to the new archival finds on the Iranian Plateau which sheds light on the legal and economic history of late antique Iran.

    This introductory article is the first issue in the newly launched Sasanika Papyrological Studies and will be followed by a revision of three papyri by Dieter Weber.

  • Sasanian coins, middle-Persian etymology and the Tabarestān archive

    Gyselen, Rika (ed.). 2017. Sasanian coins, middle-Persian etymology and the Tabarestān archive. (Res Orientales 26). Bures sur Yvette: Groupe d’Etude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient.

    Table of Contents:
    • Rika Gyselen; Malek Iradj Mochiri together with Hendrik Hameeuw: “Une collection de monnaies sassanides de billon, de cuivre et de plomb”
    • Rüdiger Schmidt: “Zu Lesung und Interpretation sasanidischer Monogramme”
    • Alicia Van Ham-Meert; Bruno Overlaet; Philippe Claeys and Patrick Degryse: “The Use of micro-XRF for the elemental analysis of Sasanian lead coins from the collections of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels”The Tabarestan archive (VIIIth century)
    • Dieter Weber: “Pahlavi Legal Documents from Tabarestan on Lease, Loan and Compensation: A Philological Study”
    • Maria Macuch: “Pahlavi Legal Documents from Tabarestan on Lease, Loan and Compensation: The Juristic Context”

  • Iranian, Manichaean and Central Asian Studies in Memoriam Sundermann

    Herausgegeben von einem Team „Turfanforschung“. 2017. Zur lichten Heimat. Studien zu Manichäismus, Iranistik und Zentralasienkunde im Gedenken an Werner Sundermann (Iranica 25). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

    Werner Sundermann’s central research subject was the Middle Iranian fragments from Turfan oasis in East Turkistan, today’s Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China. He always placed his texts in a philological, linguistic, or religious-historical context. The findings of these studies have extended far beyond Iranian studies to include the history of Central Asia, Iranian and Indo-European studies and literary history as well as to Turkology and Buddhist studies.
    The memorandum contains more than fifty contributions on Minichaean, Iranian and Central Asian Studies, as well as other neighboring fields. Among others, some new text fragments from the Turfan region, Dunhuang and Iran are for the first time edited and presented. Furthermore new studies on the sources of Central Asian origin and the Greek-Roman and Persian cultural areas are introduced and individual phenomena of languages or religions are analyzed.

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  • Iranian Philology in Honour of Gherardo Gnoli

    Morano, Enrico, Elio Provasi & Adriano V. Rossi (eds.). 2017. Studia Philologica Iranica. Gherardo Gnoli Memorial Volume. (Serie Orientale Roma, Nuova Serie 5). Roma: Scienze e Lettere S.r.l.
    Table of Contents
    •  M. Alram:  “Ein Schatzfund des Hunnen-Königs Mihirakula”
    • G. Asatrian: “Middle Iranian Lexical Archaisms in Armenian Dialects”
    • H.R. Baghbidi: “Three Etymological Notes”
    • C.G. Cereti: “A Short Note on MHDA 38”
    • J. Cheung: “On the Origin of the Terms “Afghan” & “Pashtun” (Again)”
    • C.A. Ciancaglini: “Phonology, Etymology and Transcription Issues of Middle Persian Final Sequences ‹-lg› and ‹-lkꞌ›”
    • I. Colditz: “Another Fragment of the “Parable on the Female Hearer Xybrʾ”?”
    • M. Dandamayev: “Indian Soldiers in Achaemenid Babylonia”
    • A. de Jong: “The Women Who Witnessed Zoroaster’s Birth”
    • D. Durkin-Meisterernst: “Yima’s anādruxti-“
    • E. Filippone: “On the Meaning of Avestan nāuuiia– and Pahlavi *nāydāg“
    • Ph. Gignoux: “Sur les noms de personnes et quelques particularités linguistiques d’une nouvelle collection privée de parchemins pehlevis”
    • R. Gyselen: “Formules moyen-perses et monogrammes sassanides”
    • A. Hintze: “The Advance of the Daēnā: The Vištāsp Yašt and an Obscure Word in the Hāδōxt Nask“
    • H. Humbach: “Zarathushtra and the Balance”
    • J. Josephson: “The Pahlavi Psalter as a Translation”
    • J. Kellens: “Les Gâthâs dites de Zarathusthra“
    • G. Lazard: “Les racines de la langue persane”
    • P. Lecoq: “Le -a final en vieux perse”
    • C. Leurini: “The Virgins and the Bride: Matt. 25:1 in the Manichaean Middle Persian Fragment M36”
    • P.B. Lurje: “More on Sogdian Versification: Translated and Original Compositions“
    • M. Macuch: “A Legal Controversy from the Sasanian Period in a Late Pahlavi Rivāyat Text”
    • M. Maggi: “Annotations on the Book of Zambasta, IV: Ronald E. Emmerick’s Notes”
    • E. Morano: “The Jackals and the Elephant: A Manichaean Sogdian Tale in Manichaean Script. With an Appendix with Corrections to Previously Edited Fragments of Tales“
    • É. Pirart: “Les Soleils de l’Avesta”
    • A. Piras: “X˅arǝnah– and the Garlands. Notes about the Avestan and Manichaean Yima“
    • E. Provasi: “Some Notes on Sogdian Phonology: Prothetic Aleph and Labialised Velars”
    • Ch. Reck: “Form and Emptiness: A Fragment of a Sogdian Version of the Heart Sutra?”
    • A.V. Rossi: “Ten Years of Achaemenid Philology: Old Persian &
      Achaemenid Elamite 2006-2016”
    • G. Scarcia: “Alla ricerca di un Ur-Farhâd: Hercules patiens, magnetico signor dottore, scalpellino, feldmaresciallo mecenate?”
    • R. Schmitt: “Der Flußgott Oxos in der iranischen Anthroponymie”
    • M. Schwartz: “An Achaemenid Position, and Gathic Composition:
      OPers. *grasta-(pati-), OAv. grə̄hma-, and PIE √gʰres“
    • Sh. Shaked: “Zoroastrian Views on Suffering”
    • N. Sims-Williams: “The Name of the Kushan Goddess Ομμα”
    • P.O. Skjærvø: “Khotanese Land Purchase Deeds”
    • D. Weber: “Bemerkungen zu einigen Personennamen in den neuen Dokumenten aus Tabaristan”
    • G. Windfuhr: “The Enigmatic kurušag Ewe that Nursed Infant Zarathushtra, and the Precession of the Equinoxes”
    • E. Yarshater: “Tāti Dialects”
    • Y. Yoshida: “A Manichaean Middle Persian Fragment Preserved in the Kyōushooku Library, Osaka, Japan”
    • P. Zieme: “Ein altuigurisches Fragment zur manichäischen Ethik”

  • Sasanian Objects and the Tabarestan Archive

    Gyselen, Rika (ed.). 2016. Words and symbols. Sasanian objects and the Tabarestan archive (Res Orientales 24). Leuven: Peeters Publishers.Table of Contents:

    • Carlo G. Cereti; Zohre Bassiri: “On a Few Sasanian Bullae from the Collections of the National Museum of Iran”
    • Rika Gyselen: “Sasanidische Siegelsteine de P. Horn et G. Steindorf revisité”
    • Ursula Weber: “The Inscription of Abnun and its Dating to the Early Days of Shabuhr I”

    Tabarestan Archive (8th cent.)

    • Dieter Weber: “Court Records of Lawsuits in Tabarestan in the Year 86/7 PYE (737 CE): A Philological Examination”
    • Maria Macuch: “The Legal Context of the Tabarestan Court Records (Tab. 1-8, 10)”
    • Philippe Gignoux: “Une archive post-sassanide du Tabarestan (III)”
    • Dieter Weber: “Two Documents from Tabarestan Reconsidered (Tab. 12 and 26)”

  • Studia Iranica 45(1)

    The first issue of Studia Iranica 45 (2016) has been published. For a table of contents and access to individual articles, see below or visit this page.

    7 – 15 –Unité et diversité du rite avestique
    KELLENS, Jean    		abstract details download pdf
    17 – 38 –Zāwulistān, Kāwulistān and the Land Bosi
    On the Question of a Sasanian Court-in-Exile in the Southern Hindukush
    AGOSTINI, Domenico, STARK, Sören    		abstract details download pdf
    39 – 52 –A Unique Pahlavi Papyrus from Vienna (P.Pehl. 562)
    ZEINI, Arash    		abstract details download pdf
    53 – 64 –A Pamir Cereal Name in Medieval Greek Sources
    WITCZAK, Krzysztof Tomasz, NOVÁK, L’ubomír    		abstract details download pdf
    65 – 88 –Institutional Metamorphosis or Clerical status quo?
    New Insights into the Career and Work of Sayyid Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Khātūnābādī
    MOAZZEN, Maryam    		abstract details download pdf
    89 – 126 –The Authentic Layout of the Main Avenue of Fin Garden in Kashan
    JAYHANI, Hamidreza, REZAEIPOUR, Maryam    		abstract details download pdf
    In memoriam
    129 – 132 –Malek Iradj Mochiri (1927-2015)
    GYSELEN, Rika    		abstract details download pdf
    Comptes rendus
    135 – 155 –Comptes rendusabstract details download pdf

  • Studies on the Pre-Islamic Iranian World

    Krasnowolska, Anna & Renata Rusek-Kowalska (eds.). 2015. Studies on the Iranian World I. Before Islam. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press.
    This volume is the proceedings of the Seventh Conference of Iranian Studies of the Societas Iranologica Europaea (ECIS7), organized by Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE), which took place in Cracow, September 7-10, 2011. The first of the two volumes of the ECIS7 proceedings is dedicated to the pre-Islamic Iranian studies.
    Table of Contents
    Linguistics:
    • Maria Carmela Benvenuto, Flavia Pompeo: “The Old Persian Genetive. A Study of a Syncretic Case
    • Saloumeh Gholami: “Nominal Compound Strategies in Middle Iranian Languages”
    • Paolo Ognibene: “Alan Place-names in Western Europe”
    • Christiane Reck: “Work in Progress: The Catalogue of the Buddhist Sogdian Fragments of the Berlin Turgan Collection”
    • Arash Zeini: “Preliminary Remarks on Middle Persian <nc> in the Pahlavi Documents”
    Literature:
    • Elham Afzalian: “Autoritäten im Mādayān–ī Hazār Dādestān”
    • Iris Colditz: “Two Snake-Brothers on their Way — Mani’s Scripture as a Source of Manichaean Central Asian Parabels?”
    • Seyyedeh Fatemeh Musavi: “Fictional Structure of the Middle Persian Ayādgār ī Zarērān“
    Religion:
    • Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst: “Aspects of Hymnology in Manichaean Community in Turfan”
    • Raffaella Frascarelli: “Arǝdvī Sūrā Anāhitā: Considerations on the Greek ἀρχἡ”
    • Judith Josephson: “Ohrmazd’s Plan for Creation according to Book Three of the Denkard”
    • Götz König: “The Pahlavi Translation of Yašt 3″
    • Kianosh Rezania: “On the Old Iranian Social Space and its Relation to the Time Ordering System”
    History:
    Archaeology:
    • Alireza Askari Chaversi: “In Search of the Elusive Town of Persepolis”
    • Jukian Bogdani, Luca Colliva, Sven Stefano Tilia: “The Citadel of Erbil. The Italian Archaeological and Topographic Activities”
    • Carlo G. Cereti, Gianfilippo Terribili, Alessandro Tilia: “Pāikūlī in its Geographical Context”
    • Niccolò Manassero: “New Sealings from Old Nisa”
    • Vito Messina, Jafar Mehr Kian: “The Hong-e Azhdar Parthian Rock Relief Reconsidered”
     About the Editors:

    Anna Krasnowolska is a professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University.

    Renata Rusek-Kowalska is an assistant professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University.