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Dalvand, Hamidreza, 2024, Zoroastrian Tradition in the Islamic Period 3- The Farrōbay Srōš’s Rivayat (The calendar reform in the 375 Yazdgerdi year along with 1300 years Yazdegardi comparative calendar), Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies.

The third volume of The Zoroastrian Tradition in the Islamic Period, devoted to the study of the Rivāyat of Farrōbay Srōš, has been published by Dr. Hamid Reza Dalvand. The…

admin 19 October 2025

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 Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh—including initial drafts and fair copies—to the Department of Iranian Studies (Iranistik) at the…

admin 15 October 2025

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 this lecture either in person or live via Zoom.Registration link: https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/events/lucinda-dirven-zoroastrianism-in-the-religious-context-of-the-arsacid-empire/

admin 11 October 2025

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 Brill.Iran and the Caucasus is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that is issued five times a…

Saeede Amirpoor Saeed 11 October 2025
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 rounds, successively at Shahid Beheshti University, the University of Tehran, and the Institute for Humanities…

admin 04 October 2025
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 Societies, in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, will…

Shahrbanoo Moosakhani 03 October 2025

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 renowned scholars in the field of Zoroastrian studies and Avestan-Pahlavi literature, will deliver a lecture…

Afshin Aryanpur 03 October 2025

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

Saeede Amirpoor Saeed 01 October 2025

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 in the history of the Persianate World, spanning from the Muslim conquest to the present….

admin 30 September 2025

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 Hun Coins Based on the Collection of the British Museum, was published by the British…

Saeede Amirpoor Saeed 19 September 2025
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