Bibliographia Iranica

A predominantly bibliographic blog for Iranian Studies

Tag: Zoroastrianism

  • Review of Éric Pirart’s ‘Le sort de Gâthâs’

    Ferrer, Juan. 2014. Review of Éric Pirart (ed.). 2013. Le sort de Gâthâs et autres études iraniennes in memoriam Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin (Acta Iranica 54). Leuven-Paris-Walpole, MA: Peeters Publishers. Aula Orientalis 32. 388–391.

  • 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)

  • The Religions of Ancient Iran

    The Religions of Ancient IranMazdapour, Katayoun et al. 2015. The Religions of Ancient Iran. Tehran: SAMT Publication.
    This book is an introduction to Ancient Iranian Religions. Each chapter of this book deals with one of the major religions or trends in the history of ancient Iranian religions or those religions which were influenced by ancient Iranian beliefs and views.
    Table of Contents:
    • Zaraθuštra (Zoroaster) and the Zoroastrianism
    • Mithraism
    • Mani and Manichaeism
    • Zurvanism
    • Mazdakism
    Mazdāpur, katāyun va digarān. 1394š/2015. adyān-o maẕāheb dar īrān-e bāstān. tehrān: entešārāt-e samt.
    In original:

    مزداپور، کتایون و دیگران. ۱۳۹۴. ادیان و مذاهب در ایران باستان. تهران: سمت

  • Ancient Iranian and Zoroastrian Astral Mythology, Astronomy and Astrology

    Panaino, Antonio. 2014. Sidera Viva. Studi Iranici di Storia della Mitologia Astrale, dell’Astronomia e dell’Astrologia Antica. (Ed.) Andrea Gariboldi, Paolo Ognibene & Velizar Sadovski. . 2 vols. Milano: Mimesis.
    This comprehensive two-volume set is a collection of the wide range of articles and short writings written by Antonio Panaino during last decades. The articles are already appeared in academic journals and collected volumes, often not easily accessible to a wider audience. These studies are all dedicated to the different areas of research developed by the author, in particular on the history of ancient Iranian as well as Zoroastrian astral mythology, astronomy and astrology, from the earliest period of Indo-Iranian and Iranian history through the late antiquity up to the High Middle Ages as well as early Islamic era.
    About the Author:
    Antonio Panaino is professor of ancient Iranian philology and hitory of religion at the University of Bologna.

  • Mimesis and Liturgy in Zoroastrian Ritual

    © Dadar Athornan Institute

    Antonio Panaino: “Mimesis und Liturgie im mazdayasnischen Ritual: Die Amtseinsetzung der sieben Unterpriester und die symbolische Götter-Verkörperung”

    Donnerstag, 16. Juli 2015, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Iranian Studies.

    This lecture proceeds within the framework of the Corpus Avesticum Meeting in Berlin, which was held in 22–23 May 2015 at the Freie Universität Berlin. The lecture will be followed on Friday 17th July 2015 with an internal meeting of the members of the Corpus Avesticum settled in Berlin.

  • A Cultural History of Zoroastrianism

    Gheiby, Bijan. 2014. Zarathustras Feuer: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Zoroastrismus. Darmstadt: Philipp von Zabern.
    This volume amis to present a culture-historical introduction to Zoroastrianism. The author dicusses the emergence, the development, the decline and the current status of this religion. It also deals with the neo–Zoroastrian movement(s), that is formed in response to the Islamization of Iran, and according to the author, assessed the chances of a revival of Zoroastrianism in the future. The book is divided into ten chapters. The first three chapters deal more with historical aspects of the faith, among others, the history of the Persian empire and the life of Zaraθuštra. In the fourth and fifth chapters, the contents and principles of religion are explained. The sixth section is dealing with the siruation of Zoroastrianism under the Sassanian. The chapters seven and eight deal with the Zoroastrian scriptures, literature and cults. The ninth chapter deals with the decline of religion and the final chapter dicusses the phenomenon of neo-Zoroastrianism.
    About the Author:
    Bijan Gheiby was born in Teheran in 1954. He studied media in Tehran and in Long Beach as well as Iranian Studies in Hamburg and Göttingen, where he received his doctorate. He is an independent researcher of Zoroastrianism and ancient Iranian Studies.

  • Zoroastrians and Christians in Sasanian Iran

    Gignoux, Philippe. 2014. Mazdéens et chrétiens en terre d’Iran à l’époque sassanide. (Ed.) Matteo De Chiara & Enrico G. Raffaelli. (Serie orientale Roma 3). Roma: Scienze e Lettere.
    The volume edited by M.D. Chiara and E.G. Raffaelli brings together forty-two articles by Philippe Gignoux on Zoroastrianism and Christianity in Sasanian Iran. The collection represents the Gignoux’s most important  contributions on those subject, written over a period of more than 40 years.
    The papers are divided in three cathegories: 1. Epigraphy, Onomastics Toponymy, 2. Comparative history of Zoroastrianism and 3. Syriac Christianity, each include articles with different subjects.
    This volume is a valuable collection of articles for the scholars of Zoroastrianism and Chistianity in Sasanian Era.
    Table of Contents:

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  • Iranian Demons

    Swennen, Philippe (ed.). 2015. Démons iraniens: actes du colloque international organisé à la Université de Liège les 5 et 6 février 2009 à l’occasion des 65 ans de Jean Kellens. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège.
    Iranian demons belong to the generic category of daēuua– (dēv in Pahlavi). Yet it is paradoxical that this word is inherited to the same Sanskrit word (devá-), which originally means “god”, attested in the Latin word deus. How did it happen? Are we witnessing the birth of an evil world? Was the prophet Zarathushtra, supposed to be the founder of the Zoroastrian doctrine, who redefined the semantic content of the word daēuua-? Is this semantic evolution an distinctive feature of the ancient Iranian religion? Is it a moral or a political definition of evil? What is its genealogy? What is the role of the evil in religious Zoroastrian ceremonies? The atricles of this volume, dedicated to Jean Kellens’ 65th birthday try to answer all these questions.

    About the Editor:
    Philippe Swennen teaches at the University of Liège, where he holds the chair for “Languages ​​and religions of the ancient Indo-Iranian world.”

  • A Zoroastrian Doubt-dispelling Exposition

    ŠGV Asha 2015

    Asha, Raham (ed.). 2015. šak-ud-gumānīh-vizār. The Doubt-removing book of Mardānfarrox. Paris: Ermān.

    The ŠGV is a treatise in which the author intends to present the arguments to refute in detail the alien schools and sects, establish the teaching of the two principles, and lead us to believe the veracity of the Religion, Daēnā Māzdayasni, and that of the teachings of the old Aryan guides, the Paoiryō.t̰kaēša. The complete original Pārsīg text is irretrievably lost, and we only possess its transcription into Pāzand (the vernacular Pārsī language written in Dēn-dibīrīh) and its translation into Sanskrit, made by the Pārsī high-priest Neryōsang Dhaval. (more…)

  • Zoroastrian Cosmogony and Eschatology

    Timuş, Mihaela. 2015. Cosmogonie et eschatologie: articulations conceptuelles du système religieux zoroastrien. (Cahiers de Studia Iranica 54). Paris: Peeters Press.
    The book includes seven studies that use historiographical and philological methods to explore the historical and religious aspects of Zoroastrian cosmogony and eschatology. It undertakes a close reading of Middle Persian literature to identify and illustrate specific aspects of this religious system, such as the symmetry between the beginning and the end of the world. The author reads the historiography of Iranian studies, paying special attention to the French scholarship on this topic, in order to show how the modern history of religions transformed Christian theological concepts in its analysis of the Zoroastrian religion. The Addenda include several unpublished documents, relevant for the history of Zoroastrian studies in France.
    About the Author:
    Mihaela Timuş is Post-Doc fellow in the Romanian Academy, Institute for the History of Religions, History of Indian and Iranian Religions.