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Handbook of Oriental Studies / Handbuch der Orientalistik, Section 1: The Near and Middle East, 166, , 2022
Ctesiphon and Its Surroundings, Precursors of Baghdād in Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral, Baghdad:... more Ctesiphon and Its Surroundings, Precursors of Baghdād in Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral, Baghdad: From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century with collaboration of Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral.
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Arab Center for Research and Policy, Doha, 2021
Arabic Translation of Decline and Fall,
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Res Orientalis XIX Volumen XIX, Rika GYSELEN edited, SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF SASANIAN AND POST-SASANIAN IRAN Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient Bures-sur-Yvette , 2010
Made available for the first time in its full version, this is a pdf of the major "article" that ... more Made available for the first time in its full version, this is a pdf of the major "article" that the author wrote on Dinawari, commissioned to her dear colleague, Dr. Rika Gyselen. It was published in 2010. It is only now, however, that this work is properly disseminated. The fault remains with the author. Meanwhile other colleagues have published work on Dinawari subsequent to this. I hope all contributions serve the interested reader.
The work before you is a thoroughly preliminary study of what, to the author’s mind, is one of the most important historical texts of the early medieval period,
the shu‘ūbī treatise of Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad b. Dāwūd al-Dīnawarī, the Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl, originally written in Arabic, probably toward the end of the ninth century. Beginning with a general introduction that provides an elementary analysis of the social and historical contexts of the authorship of the Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl, and highlights the historical merits of Dīnawarī’s opus, in the second section we proceed to detail the historical-geographical data provided by Dīnawarī on Iran and Mesopotamia. Finally, in the last section, a preliminary schematic analysis of the Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl and a non-critical translation of important parts of the work is provided.
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Nashr-e Ney, 2019
The "official" Persian translation of decline and Fall, with a new Persian Introduction by the au... more The "official" Persian translation of decline and Fall, with a new Persian Introduction by the author -- itself a partial and introductory contribution to the discussions generated by the book!
ترجمه رسمی کتاب افول و سقوط شاهنشاهی ساسانی، با مقدمه ای جدید از نویسنده.
حکایتی کوتاه از بحث هایی که کتاب افول و سقوط بر انگیخت
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Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1995
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Review of Middle East studies, 2009
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Journal of Persianate Studies, 2013
For close to four decades now, scholars of the late Roman, early Christian, early medieval, and e... more For close to four decades now, scholars of the late Roman, early Christian, early medieval, and early Byzantine worlds have gradually formed the diachronic concept of the “Late Antique” period as an extension of classical studies. The chronological boundaries of the field have been put, roughly in the period between 200 and 800. Its genesis has been, in no small measure, due to the long and sustained tradition of in-depth scholarly investigation of GrecoRoman history and culture. One of the primary locomotives of the debate on “Late Antiquity”, furthermore, has been the question of the continuity of the Greco-Roman heritage in the wake of the gradual growth of Christianity in the classical world. (Browne 1971) Beyond these primary concerns, however, other pertinent queries have gradually come to engage the scholars in the field. One of the more pressing of these in recent decades has been whether or not one should or could have a synchronic as well as a spatial view of “Late Antiquity.” Moving beyond the Greco-Roman heritage, the questions asked have become more complex: how far chronologically, and how wide geographically, should scholarship cast the net? Through which prism or prisms, should we study the new social and economic, religious and political trends and institutions of “Late Antiquity,” (Clover and Humphreys 1989; Walker 2002; Morony 2008) trends that ultimately came to construct the heritage of our modern age? In response to these inquiries, the study of the Germanic conquests in the west, the history of the Caucasus, Ethiopia, and Yemen, of Mesopotamian Jewry, Nestorian Christianity and the Slavs, among others, have gradually entered into the debate on “Late Antiquity.” (Ibid.)
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Studia Iranica, 1998
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Iranian Studies, 2000
During the medieval period iran produced one of the richest repertoires of local histories in the... more During the medieval period iran produced one of the richest repertoires of local histories in the Islamic world. Ibn Funduq, the author of the local history of Bayhaq studied here, enumerates 15 local histories of Khurasan alone. These include three local histories of Marv by al-ᶜAbbas b. Musᶜab b. Bishr, Abu'l-Hasan Ahmad b. Sayyar (198-268/814-881), and Abu'l-ᶜAbbas b. Saᶜid al-Maᶜdani (d. 375/986). (al-Sakhawi calls Musᶜab b. Bishr's work a “history of (the city).“) To these Ibn Funduq adds two local histories of Herat by Abu Ishaq Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yunis (?) al-Bazzaz and Abu Ishaq Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Saᶜid al-Haddad. (Sakhawi, apparently confused, attributes both histories to Abu Ishaq Muhammad b. Yasin al-Harawi al-Haddad); aTārīkh-i Bukhārā va Samarqandby Saᶜd b. Janah; two histories of Khwarazm by al-Sari b. Dalwiya and Abu ᶜAbdallah Muhammad b. Saᶜid respectively; a history of Balkh by Abu ᶜAbdallah Muhammad b. ᶜAqil al-Faqih;
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THE JEWS OF IRAN: The History, Religion and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World, Houman Sarshar ed., I. B. Tauris., Nov 26, 2014
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Iran Nameh, Volume 29, Number 2,, Jul 31, 2014
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Journal of Persianate Studies, 2013
I argue here that the epic (5 volumes in print) of Samak, which was composed during the Parthi... more I argue here that the epic (5 volumes in print) of Samak, which was composed during the Parthian period and finally written down in archaic New Persian sometime in the Seljuqid period, is not only a Mithraic epic story, but also and quite possibly the Holy Grail of specialists in Roman Mithraism. The epic, I argue, replicates the ethics and praxis of Mithraic brotherhoods, brotherhoods whose members in the Iranian context are called `ayyars. Parvaneh Pourshariati
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Books by Parvaneh Pourshariati
The work before you is a thoroughly preliminary study of what, to the author’s mind, is one of the most important historical texts of the early medieval period,
the shu‘ūbī treatise of Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad b. Dāwūd al-Dīnawarī, the Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl, originally written in Arabic, probably toward the end of the ninth century. Beginning with a general introduction that provides an elementary analysis of the social and historical contexts of the authorship of the Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl, and highlights the historical merits of Dīnawarī’s opus, in the second section we proceed to detail the historical-geographical data provided by Dīnawarī on Iran and Mesopotamia. Finally, in the last section, a preliminary schematic analysis of the Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl and a non-critical translation of important parts of the work is provided.
ترجمه رسمی کتاب افول و سقوط شاهنشاهی ساسانی، با مقدمه ای جدید از نویسنده.
حکایتی کوتاه از بحث هایی که کتاب افول و سقوط بر انگیخت
Papers by Parvaneh Pourshariati
The work before you is a thoroughly preliminary study of what, to the author’s mind, is one of the most important historical texts of the early medieval period,
the shu‘ūbī treatise of Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad b. Dāwūd al-Dīnawarī, the Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl, originally written in Arabic, probably toward the end of the ninth century. Beginning with a general introduction that provides an elementary analysis of the social and historical contexts of the authorship of the Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl, and highlights the historical merits of Dīnawarī’s opus, in the second section we proceed to detail the historical-geographical data provided by Dīnawarī on Iran and Mesopotamia. Finally, in the last section, a preliminary schematic analysis of the Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl and a non-critical translation of important parts of the work is provided.
ترجمه رسمی کتاب افول و سقوط شاهنشاهی ساسانی، با مقدمه ای جدید از نویسنده.
حکایتی کوتاه از بحث هایی که کتاب افول و سقوط بر انگیخت
What are the Late Antique, Ancient, and Prehistoric roots of Islamic cartography? How does it connect to other cartographical imaginations of the time—Christian, Chinese, Indic and otherwise?
Was there a conception of dār al-Islam vs. a dār al-ḥarb in “Muslim Cartography? Who was considered us and who was the other in this cartographical rendition of the world?
How can absences, presences, and anomalies be investigated to reveal unknown historiographical nuggets?
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