Religious trends in late ancient and early Islamic Iran

The latest issue  of the journal Iranian Studies 48(1), dated 2015 and entitled Religious trends in late ancient and early Islamic Iran, is a treasure trove of highly recommended articles. This special issue has been edited by Jason Mokhtarian & David Bennett.

Read the editors’ introduction here.

Table of contents:

1. Guest Editors’ Introduction

   Jason Mokhtarian , David Bennett

2. East Syrian Bishops, Elite Households, and Iranian Law after the Muslim Conquest

   Richard Payne

3. Unnecessary Angels: Jewish Angelology in the Škand Gumānīg Wizār

   Samuel Thrope

4. Mazdakism, Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism: In Search of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Late Antique Iran

   Khodadad Rezakhani

5. Seleukid Sacred Architecture, Royal Cult and the Transformation of Iranian Culture in the Middle Iranian Period

   Matthew P. Canepa

6. The Boundaries of an Infidel in Zoroastrianism: A Middle Persian Term of Otherness for Jews, Christians, and Muslims

   Jason Mokhtarian

7. Persian Literature and Judeo-Persian Culture, Collected Writings of Sorour S. Soroudi

   David Yeroushalmi

8. Wir sind die Medien. Internet und politischer Wandel in Iran

   Adnan Tabatabai

9. Women in the Shahnameh, Their History and Social Status within the Framework of Ancient and Medieval Sources

   Christine van Ruymbeke

10. Ruse and Wit: The Humorous in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Narrative

    Sunil Sharma

11. A Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and the Fadai Period of National Liberation in Iran, 1971–1979

    Afshin Matin-asgari