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Report on the Shahnameh Manuscripts Transferred to the University of Hamburg

On 3 September 2025, Dr. Jalal Khaleghi-Motlagh entrusted the manuscripts behind his critical edition of...

Lucinda Dirven: “Zoroastrianism in the Religious Context of the Arsacid Empire”

🗓 Wednesday, November 5, 2025🕓 4:00 PM📍 Royce Hall 306, UCLAYou are invited to attend...

Iran and the Caucasus, October 2025, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 233–336.

The new issue of the academic journal Iran and the Caucasus has been published by...

Persian-language call-for-papers poster for the International Biennial Conference on Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages. A cream, parchment-like background features a bold purple calligraphy title at the top. A right-side purple panel lists topics: historical and comparative linguistics; Old, Middle, and New Iranian languages and dialects; Persian linguistics and literature; historical grammar; comparative studies; Iranian religions before and after Islam; manuscript studies and text editing. Another purple box shows the timeline: abstract deadline 30 Aban 1404; full paper deadline 20 Dey 1404; conference dates 26–27 Bahman 1404. Venue: Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran. A bottom banner invites submissions to irlancul@ut.ac.ir and website irlancul.ut.ac.ir. The lower half displays a monochrome statue of Ferdowsi before a building, with five institutional logos along the bottom.
Call for Papers: The International Biennial Conference on Ancient Iranian Languages and Culture

The Biennial Conference on Ancient Iranian Languages and Culture has previously been held in three...

Event poster (gold-to-black gradient with a small Persian miniature painting) for ASPS Virtual Event Series XV: “Actors/Performers, Audience, and Narrative Strategies in Naqqāli: New Approaches.” Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, 15:00 (JST) on Zoom—registration required (forms.gle/YFENy7uJwiqWMix67). Featuring Mohammadali Mirzaee Jadideslam, Sara Mashayekh, and Radman Rasooli Mehrabani; a workshop on Persian professional storytelling (naqqāli) with a Shāhnāma-kh’āni performance. Contact: Naoki Nishiyama, nishiyama@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Co-hosted by the Japan Office of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies and the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo.
International Workshop: “Actors/Performers, Audience, and Narrative Strategies in Naqqāli: New Approaches”

November 27, 2025Online (Zoom) The Japan Office of the Association for the Study of Persianate...

Lecture of Professor Antonio Panaino at the Zoroastrian Studies Symposium

Professor Antonio Panaino, Full Professor at the University of Bologna and one of the most...

The Third National Conference of “The Persian World in Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Period” , October 12, 2025.

The Third National Conference of “The Persian World in Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Period” , October...

Georgetown University Seeks Assistant Professor in Persianate World History

The Department of History at Georgetown University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position...

Joe Cribb, Robert Bracey, 2025, Kushan Coins and History: A Type Catalogue of Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite Hun Coins Based on the Collection of the British Museum,The British Museum, London.

A new book, Kushan Coins and History: A Type Catalogue of Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite...

Panaino, A. (2025). Ahreman’s Ascent and the Direction of His Primordial Aggression with an Excursus About the Cosmic Egg. Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg.

The work “Ahreman’s Ascent and the Direction of His Primordial Aggression”, written by Professor Antonio...

Samuel Lieu, 2024, From the Manichaean Canon, Ancient Iran and India Trust, Cambridge.

The second volume of the research collection East Manichaean Texts, titled A Collection of Manichaean...

International Conference on the 30th Anniversary of Iran and the Caucasus

September 19–21, 2026Armenia On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the academic journal Iran...

15th Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies

August 5–8, 2026 Utrecht University, Netherlands The Association for Iranian Studies (AIS), in collaboration with...

Nicholas Sims-Williams with contributions by Jonathan Silk, 2025, An Old Khotanese Reader: The Tale of Bhadra, Wiesbaden: Reicher Verlag. 144 p., E-book.

This reader contains the complete text of the Buddhist ‘Tale of Bhadra’, the second chapter...