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Research paper thumbnail of Cyrus the Great: An Ancient Iranian king

Afshar Pub, 2013

This book is a collection of articles dealing with Cyrus the Great

Research paper thumbnail of From Oxus to Euphrates: The World of Late Antique Iran

Research paper thumbnail of On the Explanation of Chess and Backgammon Abar Wizārišn ī Čatrang ud Nihišn Nēw-Ardaxšīr

This book is a translation of the Middle Persian work on Chess and Backgammon

Research paper thumbnail of Festschrift für Erich Kettenhofen. Iranistik: Deutschsprachige Zeitschrift fur iranistische Studien. 5. Jahrgang, Heft 1&2, Iran-Universitätsverlag, 2006-2007.

Research paper thumbnail of Cyrus the Great: An Ancient Iranian King, Afshar Publishers, 2013.

Research paper thumbnail of Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persia in Longue Durée, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of World History, A Concise Thematic Analysis

Research paper thumbnail of The Explanation of Chess and Backgammon (Middel Persian Text)

Research paper thumbnail of Iranians on the Silk Road

Research paper thumbnail of سقوط ساسانیان

Research paper thumbnail of تاریخ و فرهنگ ساسانی

Research paper thumbnail of Bibliographica Sasanika

Research paper thumbnail of Spirit of Wisdom – Essays in Memory of Ahmad Tafazzoli

Research paper thumbnail of Shahrestaniha i Eranshahr: A Middle Persian Text on Late Antique Geography, Epic and History

Research paper thumbnail of Scholars and Humanists: Letters of W.B. Henning & S.H. Taqizadeh

Research paper thumbnail of Sasanian Iran: Portrait of a Late Antique Empire

Research paper thumbnail of Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Research paper thumbnail of The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History

Research paper thumbnail of The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History

Research paper thumbnail of Convergence of History and Epic in Late Antique Iran

Shapur Shahbazi Memorial Volume, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of تهمورث و نوشتن و دیوان در شاهنامه

پزوهنده نامه باستان یادنامه دکتر ابوالفضل خطیبی, 2024

This articles discusses the reason why Tahmures is given knowledge of writing in the Iranian trad... more This articles discusses the reason why Tahmures is given knowledge of writing in the Iranian tradition

Research paper thumbnail of Arash the Archer and Mountains as Limits of the Sasanian Empire in the Inscription of Shapur I at Naqsh-e Rostam

Religion in den Bergen: Sakrale Orte, Heiligtumer, Performanz, Mythos und Altagsleben, 2023

How did the story of Arash the Archer of the Aryas/Iranians impact Iranian historical tradition? ... more How did the story of Arash the Archer of the Aryas/Iranians impact Iranian historical tradition? Can we read Arash's shot from one mountain to another in other historical documents/inscriptions?

Research paper thumbnail of The Changing 'Image of The World': Geography and Imperial Propaganda in Ancient Persia

Electrum, 2002

This essay discusses the use of Avestan geographical concepts in royal propaganda in the Achaemen... more This essay discusses the use of Avestan geographical concepts in royal propaganda in the Achaemenid and the Sasanian period

Research paper thumbnail of Mazdak and Late Antique 'Socialism'

The Cambridge History of Socialism, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of شگفتی و برجستگی سیستان متنی به زبان پهلوی

Research paper thumbnail of A History of Nowruz

Research paper thumbnail of Ardashir the Argbed: Sasanian economic resources and finances in the third century CE

Antiquité Tardive 30, 2022

This article reviews the financial affairs of Ardashir I, the founder of the Sasanian dynasty

Research paper thumbnail of In Search of Lost Time: The Fratarakas and teh Genealogy of the Sasanian Ancestry

Sasanian Studies I, 2022

This essay proposes a new connection between the Sasanians and the past dynasties on the Iranian ... more This essay proposes a new connection between the Sasanians and the past dynasties on the Iranian Plateau

Research paper thumbnail of Alexander at Pasargadae and the Frawashi of Cyrus

The World of Alexander in Persepective, 2022

This essay discusses the importance of Alexander's visit to the tome of Cyrus the Great

Research paper thumbnail of The End of the Ērānšahar: The Decline of the Sasanian Empire

The End of Empires, 2022

In this essay, I look at some of the issues that caused the Sasanian Empire to lose its strength ... more In this essay, I look at some of the issues that caused the Sasanian Empire to lose its strength and stability in the face of the invaders from the south. In order to understand the structural weaknesses that appeared at the end of the Sasanian Empire, we should briefly view how such a large kingdom was able to maintain itself for more than four centuries, something that was never to be repeated by any other centralized power in the Near East, until the Ottoman Empire. The Sasanian Empire was known as Ērānšahr (Kingdom of the Iranians).

Research paper thumbnail of ‬ ‫خوراک،‬ پاکای و ‫ناپاکی:‬ دیدگاه های ‫زردشتیان‬ ‫درباره‬ ‫عادت های ‬ ‫خورد و خوراک‬ ‫دیگران

Research paper thumbnail of The Bones of Khosrow: The Sacred Topography of Ctesiphon

ELECTRUM, 2022

This essay discusses the importance of Ctesiphon in the historical and literary tradition of Sasa... more This essay discusses the importance of Ctesiphon in the historical and literary tradition of Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Iran. It is proposed that there was a significant buildup of the Ctesiphon's defenses in the third century that it made its conquest by the Roman Empire impossible and its gave it an aura of impregnability. By the last Sasanian period the city was not only inhabited by Iranian speaking people and a capital, but it also became part of Iranian lore and tradition, tied to mythical Iranian culture-heroes and kings. Even with the fall of the Sasanian Empire, in Arabic and Persian poetry the grandeur and memory of Ctesiphon was preserved as part of memory of the great empires of the past.

Research paper thumbnail of Persia and Rome: The Historical and Ideological Gaze

Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, 2022

Sasanian-Roman relations

Research paper thumbnail of Palmyra and the Sasanians in the Third Century AD

Palmyra and the East , 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Armenia and Iran: The Birth of Two Nations in Late Antiquity

Electrum, 2021

This paper discusses the idea of Armenian and Iranian identity in 3rd century CE. It is proposed ... more This paper discusses the idea of Armenian and Iranian identity in 3rd century CE. It is proposed that the bordering region of the Armeno-Iranian world, such as that of the Siwnik‘ and its house saw matters very differently from that of the Armenian kingdom. The Sasanians in return had a vastly different view of Armenia and Georgia as political entities, and used their differences to the benefit of their empire.

Research paper thumbnail of Männerbund Aspects of Old Persian Anušiya

Research paper thumbnail of Pārsa and Ūja

A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of تصویر تورانیان در پژوهشهای تاریخی

Research paper thumbnail of اسب های بالدار

Bukhara 147, 2022

An article on horses and their origins with wings and how they came to lose them

Research paper thumbnail of The Xwarrah and the Sēnmurv:: Zoroastrian Iconography on Seventh Century Copper Coinage

Research paper thumbnail of The Construction of the Past in Late Antique Persia

Historia, 2006

L’expansion de l’empire sassanide est souvent vue comme une renaissance de l’empire achemenide. N... more L’expansion de l’empire sassanide est souvent vue comme une renaissance de l’empire achemenide. Neanmoins, les inscriptions sassanides ne se placent pas dans le lignage achemenides, ce qui a conduit a penser que ceux-ci avaient ete oublies. L’A. revient sur cette position : plusieurs indices montrent que les Sassanides connaissaient le passe achemenide, mais, placant leur legitimite dans une historiographie religieuse avestique, ils ont prefere se situer dans le lignage de la dynastie Kayānide.

Research paper thumbnail of Persianate Contribution to the Study of Antiquity: E'temad Al-Saltaneh's Nativisation of the Qajars

Iran, 2016

This essay discusses the contribution of the Iranians to the understanding of their own past and ... more This essay discusses the contribution of the Iranians to the understanding of their own past and how the Qajars attempted to place themselves within the ancient history of their realm. The first Iranian archaeological excavations and study of monuments and history are analysed and it is concluded that the choice of the Arsacid empire as an ancestor of the Qajars was part of their efforts to become nativised and connected with Iran's distant past.

Research paper thumbnail of Iran at the Crossroads of Civilizations: Scholars and Lawyers Speaking about Iranian History and Cultural Heritage

Welcome and Introductory Remarks Sabine Schmidtke An Afterlife of Persepolitan Polychromy: What I... more Welcome and Introductory Remarks Sabine Schmidtke An Afterlife of Persepolitan Polychromy: What I Learned From, and How I Made Friends in Iran Alexander Nagel The Sacred Topography of Ancient Iran Touraj Daryaee Lasting Impact of Peace and Communion: Sasanian Iran and Christianity Ani Honarshiansaky The Beautiful Faces of Persian Culture: Love and Beauty in Persian Poetry and Spirituality Matthew Thomas Miller The Safavids and Modern Iranian Identity Rudi Matthee Protecting Heritage and People: A False Choice Thomas G. Weiss Why Heritage Matters Today Irina Bokova

Research paper thumbnail of From Zoroastrian to Islamic Iran: a note on the Christian intermezzo

Research paper thumbnail of The Sasanians and the Late Antique World

This essay discusses the shifts brought on the Iranian Plateau by the founder of the Sasanian Emp... more This essay discusses the shifts brought on the Iranian Plateau by the founder of the Sasanian Empire, Ardaxšīr ī Pābagān, in the third century CE. I contend that these structural changes in rule, religion, physical boundaries, and political propaganda ushered in a new period in Iranian and Middle Eastern history that coincides with the period of Late Antiquity.

Research paper thumbnail of A Note on the 'Great King of Armenia

Research paper thumbnail of From Terror to Tactical Usage

The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of « Indo-European Elements in the Zoroastrian Apocalyptic Tradition ». The Classical Bulletin, 83.2, 2007, pp. 203-213

Research paper thumbnail of Honey: A Demonic Food in Zoroastrian Iran?

Research paper thumbnail of Excavating an empire: Achaemenid Persia in longue duree

Choice Reviews Online, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of The Limits of Sasanian History: Between Iranian, Islamic and Late Antique Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Persia and the West: an archaeological investigation of the genesis of Archaemenid art

Choice Reviews Online, 2001

Preface The geography of the Persian Empire. Cyrus in Australia architecture sculpture the monume... more Preface The geography of the Persian Empire. Cyrus in Australia architecture sculpture the monumental arts, genesis and function otherarts.

Research paper thumbnail of Ethnic and Territorial Boundaries in Late Antique and Early Medieval Persia (Third to Tenth Century)

Frontiers in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 2005

1 Gherardo Gnoli, The Idea of Iran: An Essay on its Origin (Rome, 1989). Aman Allah Ghoreyšī, Irā... more 1 Gherardo Gnoli, The Idea of Iran: An Essay on its Origin (Rome, 1989). Aman Allah Ghoreyšī, Irān-Nāmak, Negarešī now be Tārīx va nām-e Iran (Tehran, 1994), has discussed the same issue in a more general manner. In 1994, the second biannual conference of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Abrupt climate variability since the last deglaciation based on a high-resolution, multi-proxy peat record from NW Iran: The hand that rocked the Cradle of Civilization?

Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Zoroastrianism under Islamic Rule

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Shamanistic Elements in Zoroastrianism: The Pagan Past and Modern Reaction

Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Holocene Abrupt Climate Change Over NW Iran: The Hand That Rocked The Cradle Of Civilization?

ABSTRACT Human civilizations around the globe have been influenced by abrupt climate change throu... more ABSTRACT Human civilizations around the globe have been influenced by abrupt climate change throughout the Holocene. The paucity of high-resolution palaeoclimate data from the "Cradle of Civilization" in West Asia, however, has limited our ability to evaluate the potential role of Holocene climate variability on early societies. We present a high-resolution, multi-proxy reconstruction of aeolian input and palaeoenvironmental conditions based on a 13-kyr record of ombrotrophic (rain fed) peat from Neor Lake in Northwest Iran. Variations in relative abundances of major and trace elements, total organic carbon (TOC), stable carbon isotopes of TOC (δ 13 C TOC) and compound-specific leaf wax hydrogen isotope (δD) compositions suggest dry and dusty conditions prevailed during the Younger Dryas, and a substantial increase in atmospheric dust loading and decrease in moisture availability occurred between the early and late Holocene. In addition, variations in radiogenic Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic composition and REE anomalies in samples from Neor peat core indicate significant shifts occurred in source contributions of eolian material to the study area between the Younger Dryas, early and late Holocene. Time-series analysis of aeolian input to NE Iran reveals periodicities at 540, 1050 and 2940 years that correspond with solar variability and internal climate feedbacks identified in other records of Holocene climate change from the northern hemisphere. Transitions in major Mesopotamian and Persian civilizations, including the collapse of the Akkadian empire at 4,200 yr BP, the fall of the Ur III empire at 3,955 yr BP, the fall of Elam empire at 2,500 yr BP and the demise of the Achaemenids around 2,280 BP overlap with major dust events from this study. Several other episodes of enhanced atmospheric dust, however, are not reflected in historical or archaeological accounts of the late Holocene. This indicates either abrupt climate change was not the sole driver of societal changes in the region, or that historical records of these events are incomplete.

Research paper thumbnail of The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History

... The Safavids in Iranian History (1501???1722), 285 Kathryn Babayan 13. The Afghan Interlude a... more ... The Safavids in Iranian History (1501???1722), 285 Kathryn Babayan 13. The Afghan Interlude and the Zand and Afshar Dynasties (1722???95), 306 Kamran ScotAghaie 14. ... Kamran Aghaie received his PhD in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Arab Muslims: From Two Centuries of Silence to Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: the Partho-Sasanian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran

Journal of Persianate Studies, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Medieval Persia (600-1400 CE) History 131C

This is my Medieval Persia syllabus

Research paper thumbnail of گفتتگو درباره نامه های هنینگ و تقی زاده و همکاری با ایرج افشا

Research paper thumbnail of ایرانشهر دارای مرزهای سیاسی و فرهنگی است

مارلیک

مصاحبه ایی درباره ایرانشهر

Research paper thumbnail of Yalda یلدا

یلدا، شب چلّه و آذرجشن زرتشتی کهن‌ترین یادکرد نام یلدا را می‌توان در کتاب «آثارالباقیه» بیرونی ... more یلدا، شب چلّه و آذرجشن زرتشتی
کهن‌ترین یادکرد نام یلدا را می‌توان در کتاب «آثارالباقیه» بیرونی از سده‌ چهارم و پنجم هجری یافت که یلدا یا «میلاد مسیح» را به نقل از مسیحیان خوارزم، از جشن‌های مشترک مسیحیان ملکایی، یعقوبی و نسطوری و زمان آن را بیست و‌ پنجم دسامبر می‌داند

Research paper thumbnail of The Great Wall

Archaeology, 2008

An interview about the Darband Wall from late antiquity