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Summer Course in Zoroastrian Studies
The University of Bergen (Norway) and the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies at SOAS, are jointly offering international students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the study of Zoroastrianism in modern and contemporary Iran.
The course will take place in Rome, starting 20 June 2022, and the deadline for applications is 27 March 2022. The instructors are Prof. Michael Stausberg (Univ. of Bergen), Dr Sarah Stewart (SOAS) and Dr Jenny Rose (Claremont University). You can find more information by visitng the summer school’s website.
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Jews and Syriac Christians
Butts, Aaron Michael & Simcha Gross (eds.). 2020. Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the first millennium (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 180). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Der vorliegende Band enthält sechzehn Studien, die ein breites Spektrum an Themen untersuchen – von Fragen zum
Mohr Siebeck
Ursprung bis zur Entwicklung kommunaler Grenzen, von zwischenmenschlichen Interaktionen bis zu gemeinsamen
historischen Bedingungen, die Juden und syrische Christen im ersten Jahrtausend n. Chr. betraf.
The publisher offers links to a flyer and a table of contents. ~AZ
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Artifact, Text, Context
Tang, Li & Dietmar W. Winkler (eds.). 2020. Artifact, text, context: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia (orientalia – patristica – oecumenica 17). LIT Verlag.
This volume is a collection of papers highlighting recent researches on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. The topics range from artifacts to texts and their historical contexts, covering the period from the 7th to the 18th century. As the studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central advance, focus has shifted from a general historical survey and textual translation to a more micro and meticulous study of specific concepts and terms and particular names of persons and places.
Hutter, Manfred. 2019. Iranische Religionen: Zoroastrismus, Yezidentum, Bahāʾītum. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Das Studienbuch ist aus Erfahrungen des Unterrichts zu den im Untertitel genannten Religionen erwachsen, wobei der methodische Zugang religionshistorisch (bis zur Gegenwart) und religionsvergleichend ist. Daher werden die drei Religionen der Zoroastrier, Yeziden und Baha’i in einer weitgehend parallelen Struktur beschrieben, um so das gemeinsame “iranische Erbe” sichtbar zu machen, ohne die jeweiligen Eigenheiten der drei Religionen zu nivellieren oder zu harmonisieren. Behandelt werden (bei jeder der drei Religionen) u.a. identitätsstiftende Faktoren für die Religion und die Religion als identitätsmarker, ferner “klassische” Themen zu Welt- und Menschenbild inklusive ethische Herausforderungen sowie das weite Feld der (rituellen) Praxis. Genauso kommen jeweils Organisationsstrukturen sowie die einbettung der Religion in den gesellschaftlichen und religionspolitischen Diskurs im iranischen Raum im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert sowie die Verbreitung im deutschsprachigen Raum seit zwei bis drei Generationen zur Sprache. Kap. 6 geht auch auf die Religionspolitik der Islamischen Republik Iran ein.
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Religious change among the Safavids
Stickel, Farida. 2019. Zwischen Chiliasmus und Staatsraeson: Religiöser Wandel unter den Safaviden (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 70). Boston, MA: De Gruyter.
Die Arbeit geht dem religiösen Wandel in Iran unter den Safaviden nach. Dabei wird nicht die Verkündung der Schia als offizieller Religion 1501 in den Mittelpunkt gestellt. Vielmehr werden die Safaviden kontextualisiert, der religiöse Wandel selbst anhand beteiligter Akteure, Auswirkungen auf religiöse Institutionen und Legitimation von Herrschaft sowie der Übersetzung in Architektur und Performanz von Ritualen nachgezeichnet.
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.
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- 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
Özertural, Zekine & Gökhan Silfeler (eds.). 2018. Der östliche Manichäismus im Spiegel seiner Buch- und Schriftkultur. Vorträge des Göttinger Symposiums vom 11./12. März 2015 (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Neue Folge 47). Berlin: De Gruyter.
This volume examines the gnostic-syncretic religion of Eastern Manicheism in China, Iran, and Turkish central Asia. After a scholarly introduction to the religious theory of Manicheism, the essays probe questions of its transmission and cultural interactions with Latin, Coptic, and Arabic Manicheism.
Panaino, Antonio, Andrea Piras & Paolo Ognibene (eds.). 2018. Studi iranici ravennati II (Indo-Iranica et Orientalia). Milano: Mimesis Edizioni.This Conference Proceedings volume contains 15 contributions which were presented at the second international conference of Iranian Studies in Ravenna, Italy.
Table of Contents:
- Amir Ahmadi: “An Indo-Iranian Initiation-Based Masculine Society?“
- Fabio Eugenio Betti: “Tradizione classica e cultura sudarabica. Osservazioni sulla statua bronzea di Lady Bar’at”
- Stefano Buscherini: “Chess and geometric progressions: a link between Dante and the Persian tradition”
- Davlatkhoja Dovudi: “Nachodki bucharchudatskich, sasanidskich i omejjadskich monet v Tadžikistane i istorija ich izučenija”
- Anna Michieletto: “La comunità diasporica curda del Monte Amiata: rapporto con le origini e col territorio”
- Paolo Ognibene: “Studi sull’epos dei Narti. Il ruolo dell’elemento magico nella struttura fantastica del racconto”
- Martina Palladino: “Alcuni spunti di riflessione sui Maga Brāhmana”
- Antonio Panaino: “Vecchie e Nuove Considerazioni sul Millenarismo iranico-mesopotamico ed il Chiliasmo giudaico-cristiano”
- Andrea Piras: “Spandyād’s lance and message. Some Remarks about the Imagery of Shooting Weapons”
- Céline Redard: “La tentation de Zarathuštra”
- Micol Scrignoli: “duruj-, drauga-, draujana-: dallo studio delle valenze semantiche attestate all’individuazione della triade iranica nella lingua antico persiana”
- Galina N. Vol’naja: “K voprosu ob iranskich vlijanijach na Central’nom i Severo-Vostočnom Kavkaze (na primere bronzovych pticevidnych prjažek «tipa Isti-Su»)“
- Antonio Panaino: “The Souls of women in the Zoroastrian Afterlife”
- Paolo Delaini: “Conoscenze mediche sulla fisiologia della gravidanza nel mondo iranico di età tardoantica”
- Andrea Gariboldi: “La dottrina di Mazdak tra influssi “occidentali” e religioni orientali“
Looking East: Iranian History and Culture under Western Eyes
The 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.)”
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