Benkato, Adam & Arash Zeini (eds.). 2021. The roar of silence: Festschrift for François de Blois. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 31(3).
The breadth and variety of François de Blois’s erudition is such that only a long and detailed introduction could possibly do justice to his scholarly career. Anyone who knows François, the “quiet man” of Iranian studies, also knows his penchant for concision. We have therefore decided to limit our remarks here to about the length of his legendary handout of Middle Persian grammar—two pages.
From the Introduction
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Roar of Silence
Arash Zeini & Adam Benkato
- Honorary Editor’s: Preface
Sarah Ansari - A Royal Romance: The Cult of Cyrus the Great in Modern Iran
Ali Ansari - People of the Wind
Gerardo Barbera - Ibn Sīnā’s Remarks on a Khwarizmian Sound
Adam Benkato - The Language of the Xūz and the Fate of Elamite
Kevin T. van Bladel - A Sogdian Medical Text from Turfan
Bi Bo - The sraōšāuuarəza-priest and the usage of the srōš-barišnīh in the greater Long Liturgy
Alberto Cantera - The Jewish Ḥāfeẓ: Classical New Persian Literature in the Judeo-Persian Garšūni Literary Tradition
Shervin Farridnejad - Of Calendars—and Kings—and Why the Winter is Boiling Hot
Charles G. Häberl - Edward William West and the Pahlavi codex MK
Almut Hintze - On the origins of the god Ruḍaw and some remarks on the pre-Islamic North Arabian pantheon
Ahmad Al Jallad - Remarks on the Iranian Xorde Avesta Sāde manuscripts 6135 (YL2-17) and 6187 (MZK6) (Notes on the Xorde Avesta VIII)
Götz König - The ‘Other’ gumēzišn. About the Final ‘Merger’ of Limited Time with Eternity
Antonio Panaino - Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’
Matthew J. C. Scarborough - Another pre-Sasanian Middle Persian inscription
Nicholas Sims-Williams - The ‘oldest dated document of the Cairo Genizah’ (Halper 331): The Seleucid era and sectarian Jewish calendars
Eve Krakowski & Sacha Stern - Note of further research
Eve Krakowski & Sacha Stern - Ritual and ritual text in the Zoroastrian tradition: The extent of Yasna 41
Arash Zeini