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- Author: Matteo Compareti
- Publisher: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina
- ISBN: 9788875431051
- Category : Religion
- Languages : en
- Pages : 718
Ērān Ud Anērān
Ērān ud Anērān
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- Author: Carsten Binder
- Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
- ISBN: 9783515088299
- Category : History
- Languages : de
- Pages : 296
Lange Zeit hat man das iranische Reich der Sasaniden (3.-7. Jh.) nahezu ausschließlich als militärischen Gegenspieler von Römern und Byzantinern wahrgenommen. Der Tagungsband macht dagegen die Vielfalt der politischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Kontakte zwischen Ost und West in ihrer Zeit sowie der römischen Iran- und der iranischen Rombilder ebenso deutlich wie die Spezifika des östlichen Reiches. Aus dem Inhalt Josef Wiesehöfer: Statt einer Einleitung: ,Randkultur' oder ,Nabel der Welt'? Das Sasanidenreich und der Westen. Anmerkungen eines Althistorikers Janine Balty: Mosaïques romaines, mosaïques sassanides: jeux d'influences réciproques Jan Willem Drijvers: Ammianus Marcellinus' Image of Sasanian Society Philippe Gignoux: Prolégomènes pour une histoire des idées de l'Iran sassanide: convergences et divergences Rika Gyselen: Note de glyptique sassanide. 6. Le phénomène des motifs iconographiques communs à l'Iran sassanide et au bassin méditerranéen Udo Hartmann: Mareades - ein sasanidischer Quisling? Matthäus Heil: Perser im spätrömischen Dienst Philip Huyse: Die sasanidische Königstitulatur: Eine Gegenüberstellung der Quellen Andreas Luther: Roms mesopotamische Provinzen nach der Gefangennahme Valerians (260) Antonio Panaino: Women and Kingship. Some remarks about the enthronisation of Queen Boran and her sister *Azarmigduxt Rolf Michael Schneider: Orientalism in Late Antiquity. The Oriental in Imperial and Christian Imagery Ursula Weber: Ankündigung eines prosopographischen Projektes
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism
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- Author: Reza Zia-Ebrahimi
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- ISBN: 0231541112
- Category : Political Science
- Languages : en
- Pages : 466
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted as an alien religion, and Arabs become implacable others. Dislodging Iran from its empirical reality and tying it to Europe and the Aryan race, this ideology remains the most politically potent form of identity in Iran. Akhundzadeh and Kermani's nationalist reading of Iranian history has been drilled into the minds of Iranians since its adoption by the Pahlavi state in the early twentieth century. Spread through mass schooling, historical narratives, and official statements of support, their ideological perspective has come to define Iranian culture and domestic and foreign policy. Zia-Ebrahimi follows the development of dislocative nationalism through a range of cultural and historical materials, and he captures its incorporation of European ideas about Iranian history, the Aryan race, and a primordial nation. His work emphasizes the agency of Iranian intellectuals in translating European ideas for Iranian audiences, impressing Western conceptions of race onto Iranian identity.
Multiple Identification Alternatives for Two Sassanid Equestrians on Fīrūzābād I Relief
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- Author: Reza Kalani
- Publisher: Tarikh Negar Monthly
- ISBN: 6000491409
- Category : History
- Languages : en
- Pages : 55
Unlike the king himself, the identity of other figures carved out of Sassanid reliefs has mostly been controversial. This study attempts to resolve one of such controversial discussions on the identity of two Sassanid equestrians depicted on the Fīrūzābād I relief and thus on other Ardašīr I's reliefs. In a bid to cast light upon obscured Sassanid genealogical topics, the heraldic concept was took precedence in the course of investigations. To the best of the present author's knowledge, historical texts (mostly Arabic sources), numismatic evidence and visual analysis of ornaments probably related to ranks were all employed for this purpose. In some cases, however, the author was forced into an argumentum ex silentio against his will due to a lack or shortage of historical evidence. There are two premises central to this investigation: first, the fact that the early Sassanids followed the lead of the late Arsacids in several political and cultural aspects, and, second, the existence of a sort of a heraldic system in both early Sassanid and late Arsacid periods.
The Last Lingua Franca
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- Author: Nicholas Ostler
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- ISBN: 0802717713
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 353
Examines the rise and fall of English as the most widely spoken language in human history and discusses what language will overtake its dominance as English-speaking nations are challenged by the rising wealth of Brazil, Russia, India and China.
The Taming of the Demons
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- Author: Jacob P. Dalton
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- ISBN: 0300153929
- Category : Religion
- Languages : en
- Pages : 325
The Taming of the Demons examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet's so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the "library cave" near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road. These ancient documents, it argues, demonstrate how this purportedly inactive period in Tibetan history was in fact crucial to the Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism, and particularly to the spread of violent themes from tantric Buddhism into Tibet at the local and the popular levels. Having shed light on this "dark age" of Tibetan history, the second half of the book turns to how, from the late tenth century onward, the period came to play a vital symbolic role in Tibet, as a violent historical "other" against which the Tibetan Buddhist tradition defined itself. -- Georges Dreyfus
History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set
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- Author: Christoph Baumer
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN: 1838608680
- Category : History
- Languages : en
- Pages : 1568
This set includes all four volumes of the critically acclaimed History of Central Asia series. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by colour photographs taken on his own travels. This set includes The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1), The Age of the Silk Roads (Volume 2), The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) and The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4)
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI
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- Author: Ssu-ma Ch'ien
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- ISBN: 025304846X
- Category : History
- Languages : en
- Pages : 325
Part of the extraordinary multi-volume portrait of ancient China written by a court official of the Han Dynasty. The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume XI presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s history, continuing the series of collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites, those who discern auspicious days, turtle and stalk diviners, and those whose goods increase, punctuated by the final account of Emperor Wu’s wars against neighboring peoples and concluded with Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s postface containing a history of his family and himself. Praise for the series: “[An] indispensable addition to modern sinology.” —China Review International “The English translation has been done meticulously.” —Choice
Creating a Hellenistic World
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- Author: Andrew Erskine
- Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
- ISBN: 1910589241
- Category : History
- Languages : en
- Pages : 372
Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. Much of the territory that he seized would remain under the control of Macedonian kings until the arrival of the Romans. But Macedonian power also brought with it Greeks and Greek culture. In this book, leading scholars in the field explore the creation of this Hellenistic world, its cultural, political and economic transformations, and how far these were a consequence of Alexander's conquests. New kingdoms were established, new cities such as Alexandria and Antioch were founded, art and literature discovered fresh patrons. Egyptians and Iranians had to come to terms with Graeco-Macedonian rulers and settlers, while Greeks and Macedonians learned the ways of more ancient cultures. The essays presented here offer an exciting interdisciplinary approach to the study of this emerging Hellenistic world, its newness but also its oldness, both real and imagined.
