The fifth Fravahar Award ceremony was held on Thursday, March 6, 2025, at Iraj Hall. This event honored outstanding theses and dissertations in the fields of history, culture, and ancient languages. The details of the winners in each category are as follows:

Selected Books for the Fravahar Award:

• Manichaean Angels: A Study of Angelology and Related Concepts in Manichaeism by Mohammad Shokri Foumeshi
• Pahlaviyat: A Study of the Surviving Poems of the Common Literary Language of Iraq-e Ajam and Azerbaijan by Pezhman Firouz Bakhsh
• Karbaafi: Research, Documentation, and Ethnographic Study of the Clothing and Traditional Textiles of Iranian Zoroastrians—Identity and Attire by Farshad Salamaty and Shirin Mazdapour

Selected Doctoral Dissertations for the Fravahar Award:

• Prosopography of the Achaemenids (450 BC to the End of the Achaemenid Era) by Vazir Manbari
• Zand Gathas (Yasna 28-30 and 45): Translation Methods and Grammatical Structure by Shoaleh Hisar Pouladi

Honorable Mention for Doctoral Dissertations:

• A Study on the Status and Structural Features of Columns in Sassanid Architecture by Milad Mohsenzadeh Karimi
• An Exploration of the Representation of Achaemenid Persians as the “Other” in Ancient Greek Texts (507-323 BC): An Orientalist Approach by Amir Hassan Moghaddas

Honorable Mention for Master’s Theses:

• Early Sistani Dialect: Historical Phonology and Lexicon by Ali Mazari
• Bahram Yasht and Its Reflection in Other Ancient Texts by Aydin Golrouh
• Identity Representation in the Language of the Plays Death of Yazdgerd and Parvin, Daughter of Sasan by Saeed Abutalebi
• Quasi-Gathic Fragments of the Avesta by Maryam Khalasi

This event aims to recognize and honor outstanding research in fields related to the history, language, and culture of ancient Iran.