Auch Gedanken fallen manchmal unreif vom Baum.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Secrecy and canonisation
Bahari Lecture Series: “Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity” 20 May (Week 4) Arash Zeini (University of St Andrews): Secrecy and canonisation in Sasanian Iran: A scholastic reading of the Zand Tuesday at 5pm Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford (OCLA)
Bahari lecture series
Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity Tuesdays of Weeks 2–9 of Trinity Term 2014 at 5pm Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’ The lectures are convened by Professor Touraj Daryaee and Professor Edmund Herzig and organised by the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity (OCLA). The full programme is here.
Identity, independence & interdependence
A Workshop in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Monday 26 May 2014, 10 am to 5 pm Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Old Medical School Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones will talk about The rhetoric of empire in ancient Iran: ‘Better together’.
Public lecture III
3. The return of the Avesta It has been argued that the adoption of the Zoroastrian religious world view by the Sasanians was instrumental in maintaining the nobility’s loyalty to the goals of the empire. Most arguments in favour of this view, however, derive from examinations of source material dating from the early Islamic era. […]
The Sasanian Empire as a garden
The Sasanian Empire as a garden: The limits of Iranshahr Speaker: Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine) Where: The British Institute of Persian Studies, London When: 22 May 2014 Poster at the BIPS.
Public lecture II
2. The Sasanian Empire and religious authority: The case of Zoroastrianism As one of the major political and economic powers in the region, the Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) elevated Zoroastrianism to the dominant religious and cultural force within its polity, bringing to the foreground the question of the interaction between religion and sovereignty in the […]