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Publications & Projects
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Books (in English) Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, I.B. Tauris, (2009 forthcoming). Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE): the Portrait of a Late Antique Empire, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2008. eds. with M. Omidsalar, The Spirit of Wisdom (Menog i Xrad), Essays in Memory of Ahmad Tafazzoli, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2004. Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr, A Middle Persian Text on Late Antique Geography, Epic and Books (in Persian) Shahanshahi-e Sasani (The Sasanian Empire), Persian translation by M. Saghebfar, Tehran, Qoqnoos, 1384 (2005). Tarikh o Farhang-e Sasani (Sasanian Culture and History, translation of 12 articles originally written in English), Persian translation by M. Ghodrat Dizaji, Tehran: Qoqnoos, 1384 (2005). Soghut-e Sasanian (the Fall of the Sasanians), Persian translation by M. Ettehadieh-Nezammafi, ed. Ruzbeh Zarrinkoub, Tehran: Nashr-e Tarikh-e Iran, 1383 (2004). Articles “List of Fruits and Nuts in the Zoroastrian Tradition: An Irano-Hellenic Classification,” "Sadegh Hedayat iv: Translation of Pahlavi Texts," in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2004. “Mind, Body, and the Cosmos: Chess and Backgammon in Ancient Persia,” Iranian "The Ideal King in the Sasanian World: "History, Epic, and Numismatics: on the Title of Yazdgird I (Raamshahr)," AJN Second Series 14 (2002): 89-95. Miscellaneous Pieces Sasanian Bullae Project in Iran National Museum Images and Lives in Ancient Persia Seminar - Bowers Museum, Santa Ana (April 21, 2007) The Talmud in Its Iranian Context - UCLA (May 6-7, 2007) Darius and Ahuramazda: visiting the Behistun Inscription Middle Persian Papyri from the Sasanian Occupation of Egypt in the Seventh Century CE |
Forthcoming Projects Iranian Studies of W.B. Henning and S.H. Taqizadeh Correspondence, edited by Iraj Afshar and Touraj Daryaee: a collection of letters from 1933 to 1967 between two giants of Iranian Studies. The letters reveal the development and history of Iranian Studies and many of the major actors who shaped the discipline. There are also important discussions about the ancient Iranian calendar system, Mani and his religion and Persian language and lexicography. The letters are transcribed, along with an index of personalities and Old and Middle Iranian vocabulary.
Sasanian Historiography and Geography: An Essay on the formation of Memory and Sacred Space in Late Antique Persia, (Forthcoming 2009)
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