Arash Zeini

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  • TISS-Parzor Academic Programme

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    ‘Parzor is delighted to announce its long awaited TISS-Parzor Online Academic Programme on Culture & Heritage Studies’. As part of this programme, you can ‘learn, gain credits, explore exciting issues of environment and sociology, craft, art, literature, theatre, cuisine as well as business and philanthropy’. For admissions and programme details, visit the TISS Website.

  • The birth of the abestāg

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    I am delighted to be giving a lecture as part of the Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series on 11 January 2023. I will talk about the role of the Sasanians and philology in the creation and transmission of the abestāg, which is my preferred term for the collection of the texts we have come to know…

  • Roma in the Medieval Islamic World

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    Today we had Kristina Richardson, @krisrich, speak to us at the @invisible_east. She delivered a fascinating lecture based on her recent book, which has opened my eyes to a large set of theoretical questions to be asked in the study of ancient and late antique history of any geography.

  • The birth of the abestāg

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    My part in the WZO’s annual seminar this coming Sunday along with my @invisible_east colleagues, @ArezouAzad, Hugh Kennedy and Tommy Benfey: The birth of the abestāg from the spirit of philology سخنرانی من در سمینار سالانه «سازمان جهانی زرتشتیان» یکشنبه این هفته به همراه همکارانم در گروه پژوهشی «شرق مکنون».

  • An autumn course in Zoroastrianism

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    The University of Bergen (Norway) and the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies at SOAS, University of London, offer this autumn (23–27 September 2019) a short course on Zoroastrianism. This free course takes place in Rome and offers international students an opportunity to immerse themselves in the study of this religion with its rich history. The…

  • The Multimedia Yasna

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    “Alt-Iranistik” has always been considered a small and exotic field, a so-called “Orchideenfach”. Despite its small size and the limited financial resources available for research, Alt-Iranistik is an unexpectedly vibrant field. The many job announcements of the past year will hopefully continue as a trend and create stable research and teaching environments for the many…

  • Closure of ‘small Humanities programmes’!

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    At BiblioIranica, we usually do not comment on issues beyond our academic interests in ancient Iran. However, it would be wrong, if we did not express our disappointment after hearing the news of the closure of ‘small Humanities programmes’ at the University of Copenhagen. As the University Post reports, the “Faculty of Humanities at the…

  • Amélie Kuhrt to deliver the Harold Bailey Lecture 2015

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    The Harold Bailey Lecture 2015 Friday 11th December, 5.30pm at FAMES, Cambridge Professor Amélie Kuhrt, FBA – The King Speaks: The Persians and their Empire

  • Sasanian law in its social context

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    The 2015 UCLA Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series will be delivered by Prof. Maria Macuch: Sasanian law in its social context November 9-18, 2015

  • Third Perso-Indica Conference

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    The Sultanate Period and the Early Mughal Empire 3rd and 4th September, 2015 – Conference University of Delhi, India Conference_Program Abstracts Flyer and Map

  • Call for papers

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    We are now accepting notes and reviews for the next issues of DABIR. Please contact us, if you would like to contribute a paper. 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…

  • The family tree of Iranian

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    Dr Agnes Korn (University of Frankfurt) will be addressing the Indo-European Seminar on the subject The family tree of Iranian and its problems   At 4.30 pm on Wed. June 17, Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site Cambridge (CB3 9DA) Tea will be served from 4.15

  • The chronology of early Islam

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    Wright Lecture Series, Easter Term 2015 The Chronology of Early Islam Prof. François de Blois The calendar and the system of timekeeping in Central Arabia at the beginning of Islamic history are discussed extensively in Arabic religious and scientific literature. My paper is an attempt, on the one hand, to confront these data with contemporaneous epigraphic…

  • Digital humanities and text re-use

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    The concept of text re-use in early Islamic historiography was first brought to my attention by François de Blois, whose courses were always so much more than just an introduction to a language such as Middle Persian. Recently, it has been Sarah Savant, who has drawn attention to text re-use and its application in the…

  • A preview of the first issue of DABIR

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    I am really excited to announce that the first issue of DABIR is going to be out very soon. The table of contents is here. Working on this journal and issue alongside my friends and colleagues Parsa Daneshmand, Touraj Daryaee, and Shervin Farridnejad has been a great pleasure. Below is the official announcement of the…