Arash Zeini

Category: Events

  • Third Perso-Indica Conference

    The Sultanate Period and the Early Mughal Empire

    3rd and 4th September, 2015 – Conference
    University of Delhi, India

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  • Call for papers

    DABIR Site IconWe 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 era (3500 BCE–1500 CE). Work dealing with later periods can be considered on request.

    Before submitting your contribution, please read our submission guidelines. Contributions can be sent as an attachment to out e-mail.

  • The family tree of Iranian

    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

    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 and historic material and, on the other, to assess the arithmetical and astronomical plausibility of the data. This in turn sheds light on the problem of the chronology of early Islam and the reliability or otherwise of the sīra and maghāzī literature.

  • Digital humanities and text re-use

    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 study of early Islamic literature. And now there is this very exciting Hackathon taking place in Göttingen in July 2015:

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  • A preview of the first issue of DABIR

    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 preview:

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  • Workshop: Iran and Islam

    Iran and Islam: Early Encounters. Formation of Islam 
and Transformation of Iranian Religious Traditions

    12 March 2015 09:00–13 March 2015 18:00, Workshop Room: FNO 02/ 40-46

    Contact: Kianoosh Rezania

    For more information, see the workshop schedule

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  • Sasanian royalist ideology

    Sasanian royalist ideology and Zoroastrian millennialism

    Lecture by François de Blois, University College London, at the Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge, Friday 06March, 5.30pm.

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  • MScT Scholarship in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh

    Scholarships seem to be available to those who wish to study for an MSc in Persian Civilization at Edinburgh. For more information, see this link.

  • Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference

    University of Vienna

    Tuesday-Friday, 2–5 August 2016

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    The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) is pleased to announce that the Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference will be held in Vienna, Austria from August 2-5, 2016 at the University of Vienna. Onsite registration begins on the 2nd and the program extends until the evening of the 5th.

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  • Afghanistan Digital Library

    The immediate objective of the Afghanistan Digital Library is to retrieve and restore the first sixty years of Afghanistan’s published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871–1930 as it is possible to identify and locate.

  • open.marginalis

    open.marginalis, a curated aggregation of medieval marginalia, explores tumblr as a platform for digital scholarship.

  • Yarshater Lectures at SOAS

    ‘In the rays of light of imperial favour’: The visual arts of early fifteenth-century Timurid Herat.

    Four lectures by Professor David J. Roxburgh of the Department of History of Art and Architecture and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University:

    • 15 January Timurid Herat: The City as a Setting for Art and Literature
    • 16 January The Timurid-Ming Embassy of 1419-22: Art after China
    • 19 January Modelling Artistic Process: The Kitābkhāna and ΄Arzadāsht
    • 20 January Baysunghur’s Books: Codifying Form and Aesthetic Value

    For more information, see the series’ SOAS webpage or the poster.

  • Early Islamic Balkh

    Early Islamic Balkh: History, landscape and material culture
    16th–17th January 2015, Wolfson College, Oxford
    The Balkh Art and Cultural Heritage Project (2011-2015) has been investigating the early Islamic history and archaeology of the city of Balkh, in Northern Afghanistan. Synonymous with ancient Bactra, the “Mother of Cities” continued to flourish after the coming of Islam, becoming one of the  most important urban centres of the eastern Islamic world, at the junction of India, China and Transoxiana. This conference presents the interdisciplinary research of the Project’s international collaborative team, and hosts a discussion of the state of research on Balkh in the 7th-12th centuries C.E.
    For more information, see here.

  • Iran and the West

    Call for Papers for a conference at the University of Warwick:

    Iran and the West: Converging Perspectives

    1-3 July 2015

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