Auch Gedanken fallen manchmal unreif vom Baum.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Kingship in Ancient Iran
This interdisciplinary workshop, organised by the Institute of Iranian Studies (University of St Andrews), seeks to investigate and re-examine intersections between religious ideology and sovereignty in pre-Islamic Iran. Date: June 12–13, 2014 Convener: Arash Zeini Sponsors: BIPS, IIS, SoH and SAIMS For more information, see the workshop’s website.
Raumkonzeptionen in antiken Religionen
Rezania, Kianoosh (ed.). 2014. Raumkonzeptionen in antiken Religionen. Beiträge des internationalen Symposiums in Göttingen, 28. und 29. Juni 2012 (Philippika 69). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. More information and an abstract are here.
Religious minorities in Kurdistan
Omarkhali, Khanna (ed.). 2014. Religious minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the mainstream (Studies in Oriental Religions 68). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream, edited by Khanna Omarkhali, represents an account of the various religious milieus flourishing beyond the Islamic mainstream in all parts of Kurdistan. The miscellany describes how the religious minority […]
Conference of Iranian languages and dialects
Call for Papers The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia has the honour of organising the 2nd International Conference of Iranian Languages and Dialects 4–5 January, 2015 Tehran, Iran Aims of the conference To spread and to consolidate the theoretical discussions on Iranian Languages and dialects To contribute to scholarly studies of Iranian Languages and […]
Der Zoroastrismus als iranische Religion
Stausberg, Michael. 2011. Der Zoroastrismus als iranische Religion und die Semantik von ‚Iran’ in der zoroastrischen Religionsgeschichte. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 63(4). 331–331. Read the article here or here. Zoroastrianism, one of the three recognized religious minorities in the Islamic Republic, can claim a specific linkage with Iran since the Avestan Vendidād and its […]
Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians
Herman, Geoffrey (ed.). 2014. Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians: Religious dynamics in a Sasanian context (Judaism in Context 17). Gorgias Press. For the table of contents and more info, see here.