Monday, September 22, 2014

Iranica

THREE FROM ARASH ZEINI:
Conference: The visual world of Persianate culture
A promising and interesting conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh coinciding with the launch of their Masters in Persian Civilization. ...

Book Review: Review: The transmission of the Avesta
Piras, Andrea. 2014. Review of Alberto Cantera (ed.): The transmission of the Avesta. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 104. 365–368.

New Book: Intangible spirits and graven images
Shenkar, Michael. 2014. Intangible spirits and graven images: The iconography of deities in the pre-Islamic Iranian world. Leiden: Brill.