Sasanian Iran in the context of late antiquity : : the Bahari lecture series at the University of Oxford / / edited by Touraj Daryaee.

• Superior document: Ancient Iran Series ; Volume 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Daryaee, Touraj,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Ancient Iran series ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This volume is a collection of papers on the various aspects of Sasanian world which were delivered at the University of Oxford in 2014. Eminent scholars in such fields as numismatics, history, art history, Pahlavi and Zoroastrian Studies provide important observations on the Sasanian Empire and its influence and contact with the neighboring civilizations, as well as the internal developments throughout the four centuries in which the Sasanians held power on the Iranian Plateau and beyond. This volume was previously published by the Jordan Center for Persian Studies, University of California - Irvine.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Touraj Daryaee -- Introduction / Touraj Daryaee -- The Numismatic Legacy of the Sasanians in the East / Michael Alram -- Persian Palace Architecture, Garden Design and Digital Archaeology / Authors: Matthew P. Canepa and Johnathan W. Hardy -- The Tripartite Sasanian Vision of the World / Touraj Daryaee -- Books without Ritual - Ritual without Books / Antonio Panaino -- The Rise of the Sasanians: The Armenian Evidence / Giusto Traina -- A Father, a Daughter, and a Son-in-Law in Zoroastrian Hermeneutics / Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina -- The King in the Mirror of the Zand / Arash Zeini -- The Bahari Lecture Series at the Oxford University / Touraj Daryaee -- Contributors / Touraj Daryaee.