The Importance of Ancient Iran: review of Touraj Daryaee's Sasanian Persia (I.B. Tauris, 2009) (original) (raw)
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This volume brings together the contributions of the first and second Payravi conferences on Ancient Iranian History, held at the University of California Irvine (Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Iranian Studies), and organized by the editors of this volume. The first conference took place on March 23 rd , 2018, with the title The Iranian Plateau and its Histories. From the Beginnings to the 1 st Millennium BCE. The second was held on March 11 th-12 th , 2019, entitled The Persian-Achaemenid Empire as a 'World-System': New Approaches and Contexts. In the meantime, the third conference, Iran and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History: The Seleucids (ca. 312-150 BCE), was held on February 24 th-25 th , 2020, while the fourth one dealing with the Arsacids had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We very much hope that it will be possible to convene again in the first or second half of 2022. The idea of the Payravi conferences was born thanks to a generous donation by the Payravi family in memory of the late Ali-Asghar Payravi who had been an avid reader and enthusiast of the world of ancient Iranian. The aim of the conferences and the subsequent proceedings was to present a learned and critical inquiry into the history of the Iranian Plateau from its pre-dynastic period in the 2 nd millennium BCE up to the end of the Sasanian Empire in the 7 th century CE. This undertaking was to be implemented through five conferences and the publication of the respective proceedings, both organised by Touraj Daryaee and Robert Rollinger. We wish to thank the Payravi family for their support in bringing together an international group of scholars from different parts of the world to present, discuss and publish papers about the ancient Iranian World. Our sincere thanks go to a group of people without whom the implementation of the undertaking and its success would not have been possible. First, to Mrs. Parichehr Farhad (Payravi), who accepted our proposal and, along with her sister, Mrs. Parvaneh Payrovi, generously supported our idea. We also wish to thank Mr. Saeid Jalalipour, the Program Manager at the Center for Persian Studies at UC Irvine, for his logistical organization of the first three conferences.
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This volume brings together the contributions of the first and second Payravi conferences on Ancient Iranian History, held at the University of California Irvine (Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Iranian Studies), and organized by the editors of this volume. The first conference took place on March 23 rd , 2018, with the title The Iranian Plateau and its Histories. From the Beginnings to the 1 st Millennium BCE. The second was held on March 11 th-12 th , 2019, entitled The Persian-Achaemenid Empire as a 'World-System': New Approaches and Contexts. In the meantime, the third conference, Iran and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History: The Seleucids (ca. 312-150 BCE), was held on February 24 th-25 th , 2020, while the fourth one dealing with the Arsacids had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We very much hope that it will be possible to convene again in the first or second half of 2022. The idea of the Payravi conferences was born thanks to a generous donation by the Payravi family in memory of the late Ali-Asghar Payravi who had been an avid reader and enthusiast of the world of ancient Iranian. The aim of the conferences and the subsequent proceedings was to present a learned and critical inquiry into the history of the Iranian Plateau from its pre-dynastic period in the 2 nd millennium BCE up to the end of the Sasanian Empire in the 7 th century CE. This undertaking was to be implemented through five conferences and the publication of the respective proceedings, both organised by Touraj Daryaee and Robert Rollinger. We wish to thank the Payravi family for their support in bringing together an international group of scholars from different parts of the world to present, discuss and publish papers about the ancient Iranian World. Our sincere thanks go to a group of people without whom the implementation of the undertaking and its success would not have been possible. First, to Mrs. Parichehr Farhad (Payravi), who accepted our proposal and, along with her sister, Mrs. Parvaneh Payrovi, generously supported our idea. We also wish to thank Mr. Saeid Jalalipour, the Program Manager at the Center for Persian Studies at UC Irvine, for his logistical organization of the first three conferences.
Continuity and Change in Late Antique Iran: An Economic View of the Sasanians
International Journal of the Society of Iranian Archaeologists, 2015
Ancient economy has commonly been studied in the context of commerce and trade, less attention being paid to the production side of the economy. Additionally, artificial periodizations based on political change, including the division of Near Eastern history to the pre-Islam and Islamic periods, has prevented historians from considering issues such as economic growth in the long term. The present paper, focusing on the production side of the Sasanian economy, tries to establish certain principles and introduce possible criteria to study the economic history of the Sasanians. Regions of Khuzistan and Tokharistan/Bactria provide useful examples and comparisons for illustrating some of the points.
Ancient Iran - An Introductory Bibliography
The history of Ancient Iran is a vast and important subject, spanning a huge chronological and geographical range, with an equally large number of published works available. The following annotated bibliography is to aid the student or fellow instructors in researching and learning about some, or all of the periods within Ancient Iranian history. It does not claim to be a comprehensive bibliography of Ancient Iran. Instead, it aims to provide an introduction to some of the general and advanced works on Ancient Iran; to major reference works; specialised textbooks and monographs on specific dynasties; and volumes specifically focused on the military history of Ancient Iran, which are available to those interested in further research.
For published and illustrated version, please see: Sauer, E.W., Omrani Rekavandi, H., Wilkinson, T.J., Nokandeh, J., Hopper, K., Abbasi, G.A., Ainslie, R., Roustaei, K., MacDonald, E., Safari Tamak, E., Ratcliffe, J., Mahmoudi, M., Oatley, C., Ershadi, M., Usher-Wilson, L.S., Nazifi, A., Griffiths, S., Shabani, B., Parker, D., Mousavi, M., Galiatsatos, N. and Tolouei, H., with contributions by Priestman, S., Mashkour, M., Batt, C.M., Greenwood, D.P., Jansen Van Rensburg, J., Caputo, F., Radu, V., Schwenninger, J.-L., Fattahi, M., Gale, R., Poole, I., Hoffmann, B., Evershed, R. and Thomas, R. 2013. Persia’s Imperial Power in Late Antiquity: the Great Wall of Gorgān and Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran. A joint fieldwork project by the Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handcraft and Tourism Organisation, the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham (2005-2009). British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monographs Series II, Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. xvi + 712 [ISBN 978-1-84217-519-4].