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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...

Mohammadsaleh Zakeri, 2025, A Dictionary of Tabari Names Based on Linguistic Principles, Mirmah, Sari.

This book explores linguistic factors influencing the selection of Tabari (Mazandarani) names, analyzing concepts such...

Journal of Iranian Linguistics, 2025, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1–111.

The new issue of the Journal of Iranian Linguistics has been released. This issue, which...

Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko., 2025, Sasanian historiography (Chapter), The Oxford Handbook of Universal History Writing.

Sasanian historiography is a problematic field, as almost all Middle Persian historical texts have disappeared,...

The Seventh National Conference on “Languages and Dialects of Iran: Past and Present”Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, July 29, 2025

The Seventh National Conference on the “Languages and Dialects of Iran: Past and Present” will...

Call for the Sixth Fravahar Award Festival –March 2026

Fravahar Publications, with the aim of identifying and supporting outstanding research in the fields of...

Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History, Spring 2025, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1–136.

The latest issue of the academic journal Hunara, officially titled Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian...

Iran in the Sasanian and Islamic Periods: The Great Arch of Mazandaran

Abedini Iraqi, Mehdi, Roberto Dan Mohammad Keshavarz Divkolaee et al., 2025, Il Grande Arco del...

Call for papers for the 15th Biennial Conference of the Association for Iranian Studies, Utrecht University, 5–8 August 2026.

The Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) and The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at...

Das achaimenidisch-persische Imperium, Julian Degen (ed.), Springer, 2025.

This introduction provides a systematic overview of the history of the Achaemenid-Persian Empire, also widely...

Call for Papers: Fifth Biennial Symposia Iranica, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 10–12 April 2026

The Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews is pleased to announce...