Auch Gedanken fallen manchmal unreif vom Baum.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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.
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.