Call for Applications Summer School in Iranian Studies and Persian Language under the supervision of Professor Mehdi Mohaghegh University of Tehran 16 to 28 August 2019 Introduction Iran is an ancient land in the Middle East placed in a significant part of the world having an ancient heritage called ‘A Cradle of Civilization’. Iran’s prosperous historical civilization,… Read More Summer School in Iranian Studies and Persian Language
Miṣbāḥ ul-arvāḥ, or The Lantern of Spirits, is a comparatively little known Sufi didactic Persian poem written in the 12th century by the next to unknown Shaikh Shams ud-dīn Muhammad b. Īl-Tughān Bardasīrī Kirmānī. It is not a very long poem, covering only 1099 double verses (bait), but it contains both a quite comprehensive compendium of… Read More New book: The Lantern of Spirits
Public defence of doctoral thesis in Iranian Languages Title: From Oral to Written: A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives Doctoral student: Jaroslava Obrtelová Wakhi is one of the endangered Pamir languages belonging to the East Iranian group of Indo-European. A total of around 72,000 Wakhi speakers live in the border areas of four countries: Tajikistan,… Read More From Oral to Written: A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives
How important is Iran for China and India’s energy security? What role will the Belt and Road Initiative play? What are the immediate ramifications and what might we expect 5-10 years from now? China and India are the giants of Asia, having grown in geopolitical and economic importance over the last couple of decades. In… Read More Simple Economics but Complicated Politics? Chinese and Indian Relations with Iran
The University of Bergen and SOAS in London offer this autumn a short course in Zoroastrianism in Rome. Zoroastrianism is a living religious tradition with historical roots in ancient Iran and Central Asia. Once the dominant religion in pre-Islamic Iran, the main contemporary Zoroastrian communities can be found in India, Iran, and a range of… Read More Study Zoroastrianism in Rome
Perserrikets stormaktstid sträckte sig från ca år 550 f v t då Kyros den store i ett slag frigjorde perserna från mederna, till ca 220 år senare då Alexander den store besegrar perserna och förgör imperiet. Ett annat namn är det akemenidiska riket, då den härskande ätten inom den persiska folkgruppen var just akemeniderna. Stormaktstiden… Read More Intervju: Persiska stormakten under antiken
I 1979 væltede Ayatollah Khomeini 2.500 års persisk kongedømme og ændrede verdenshistorien. I dag er Iran den vigtigste spiller i et Mellemøsten splittet mellem Iran på den ene side og USA, Saudi-Arabien og Israel på den anden – et magtspil, der også har konsekvenser for Danmark. Men det er også i Iran, man finder kimen til… Read More Ny bog: Irans moderne historie
