Books by Shervin Farridnejad
The MA programme ‘Manuscript Cultures’ aims to convey within a one-year course (60 CP) central to... more The MA programme ‘Manuscript Cultures’ aims to convey within a one-year course (60 CP) central topics in the field of general manuscript research combined with specific skills. The course of studies promotes the independent, analytical handling of manuscripts, the cultural-scientific examination of the texts, images, notes and diagrams contained therein, the scientific material analysis of the manuscripts and the development of creative approaches for solving complex scientific and scholarly questions. The study programme covers a broad spectrum of manuscript cultures, especially in Asia, Africa and Europe.
Next application period: 15 February – 31 March 2024
Preparing, serving, and consuming food can be political, as it was arranged in the royal banquet ... more Preparing, serving, and consuming food can be political, as it was arranged in the royal banquet of the great kings. It could also be considered as a ritual, both in the frame of the greater ritual practices in the banquets for the gods, as well as according to a set of family costumes and gestures, which endures from one generation to the next. All these aspects have been one of the maiol human's activates during the history of the civilizations and have fascinated the scholars to investigate and decode the culinary customs of the peoples during the history. The contributions of this volume present a small collection of writings, which put focus on various aspects of culinary and dining practices in the Greater Iranian World from the ancient period to the contemporary religious feast of Sufi Orders in the Balkans. They aim to overview the recent developments in the field and discuss selected aspects of the rich variety of culinary practices.
The inaugural issue of Sasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World 1 (2022) is characterized by ... more The inaugural issue of Sasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World 1 (2022) is characterized by a selection of innovative and fresh researches, done by excellent scholars in the field. The contributions cover already all major aspects of the study of the Sasanian and late Antique word, including the study of the Sasanian rock and stucco reliefs, Sasanian rituals in context of the Zoroastrian manuscripts, genealogy of the Sasanian kings, philological and historical studies on the basis of unpublished Pahlavi papyri from Sasanian period, Sasanian art and iconography, historical surveys on the late Sasanian period and the advent of the Islam, the Sasanian political history in Caucasus, new aspects of the Sasanian numismatic, Sasanian literary tradition as well as the specific aspects of the study of the religions during the Sasanian period.
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East, Band: 109, 2022
Persian Calligraphy and related traditional arts of books make up the most important forms of Ira... more Persian Calligraphy and related traditional arts of books make up the most important forms of Iranian-Islamic art, which are still living practiced traditions up to today. This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook and contains the most important termini technici as well as expressions and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy (mostly Nastaʿlīq), calligraphy tools such as the reed pen, paper and ink as well as some related fields, like taẕhīb (illumination), tašʿīr (historiated painting), book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries. All terms and expressions are followed by an English description and often accompanied by an illustration. These expressions, which are key to understanding old calligraphic treatises and many relevant sources on Islamic art, are meant to familiarise the reader with both common and forgotten techniques and terminology of calligraphic traditions. The volume addresses not only the artists and scholars of Iranian and Islamic art history, but also those, who are dealt with Islamic and Iranian manuscripts, manuscript cultures, codicology and palaeography.
Both the author and the editor of this volume are trained practicing calligraphers and illuminators, who learned the art of calligraphy and illumination through long, traditional study under masters of this art.
Zaraθuštrōtǝma: Zoroastrian and Iranian Studies in Honour of Philip G. Kreyenbroek., 2020
This Festschrift is a collection of articles dedicated to one of the most distinguished scholars ... more This Festschrift is a collection of articles dedicated to one of the most distinguished scholars of Iranian Studies and a most prolific teacher of Zoroastrian and Kurdish literatures and religions, Philip G. Kreyenbroek. The volume consists of thirteen contributions, brings together some of the best-known experts in their fields to reflect the love and admiration of his students, colleagues and friends and are representative of some of his wide-ranging scholarly interests, including Zoroastrian literature and rituals as well as Iranian philology and mythology.
Einer in der Forschung weit verbreiteten Meinung zufolge existierte im Alten Iran keine zoroastri... more Einer in der Forschung weit verbreiteten Meinung zufolge existierte im Alten Iran keine zoroastrische Kunst. In Sprache der Bilder nun untersucht Shervin Farridnejad Darstellungen altiranischer anthropomorpher Gottheiten und deren Erscheinung im zoroastrischen Pantheon mit der methodischen Herangehensweise einer exegetischen Ikonographie.
Farridnejad zeichnet die Darstellungsweise und Entwicklung der zoroastrischen Götterbilder nach und analysiert den Ursprung ihrer Ikonographie innerhalb der iranischen religiösen Bildsprache, insbesondere im Wechselspiel mit den in der schriftlich überlieferten Tradition bewahrten religiösen Ideen. Der Autor widmet sich in seiner umfassenden und reich bebilderten Studie den teilweise komplex aufgebauten Götterbildern, die als vielschichtige Bedeutungsträger im religiösen Leben der alten Zoroastrier eine große Rolle spielten. Darüber hinaus ermittelt er allgemeine formale Strukturen, beleuchtet ihre Genese und erforscht den „Sitz im Leben“ der Götterbilder, indem er vor allem die literarische Überlieferung des zoroastrischen Corpus im Avestischen und Mittelpersischen berücksichtigt. Farridnejad bietet so erstmals einen umfassenden, methodisch fundierten Überblick über die zoroastrische Bildersprache im Kontext von Religion und Kultur des vorislamischen Iran.
This memorial volume is dedicated to one of the most prolific and renowned scholars in the field of... more This memorial volume is dedicated to one of the most prolific and renowned scholars in the field of Ancient Iranian Archaeology and History, the late Professor Klaus Schippmann (1924-2010), who held the chair of “Near Eastern Archaeology with special reference to Iran” at Georg-August-Universität of Göttingen until his retirement in 1990.
The volume consists of eleven papers written by some of the foremost scholars in the field of Iranian Studies as well as some of his lifetime friends and colleagues. The articles are essentially concerned with different aspects of Ancient Iranian Art, Archaeology, History, Numismatics and Religion, reflecting Klaus Schippmann’s scholarly interests. The volume also presents parts of his unpublished private diary (1959) from his Nachlass, reflecting his ideas, visions and memories of his excavations as well as a report of his last trip to his favourable archaeological site of taḫt-e soleymān (Iran), written by his personal tour leader. The book is illustrated by numerous plates.
Avestan Digital Archive Series 75, 2014
Papers and Contributions to Books by Shervin Farridnejad
The Reward of the Righteous. Festschrift in Honour of Almut Hintze, edited by Alberto Cantera, Maria Macuch, and Nicholas Sims-Williams, 157–75. Iranica 29. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022., 2022
Food for Gods, Food for Mortals. Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World, edited by Shervin Farridnejad and Touraj Daryaee, 77–131. Irvine, CA: University of Irvine, 2022., 2022
Sasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World / Sasanidische Studien: Spätantike iranische Welt. Vol. 1, 2022
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, 2021
‘Zoroastrian Iconography in the Seleucid, Arsacid and Sasanian Periods, 333 BC to 640 AD’. In The... more ‘Zoroastrian Iconography in the Seleucid, Arsacid and Sasanian Periods, 333 BC to 640 AD’. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, herausgegeben von Daniel T Potts, Ethan Harkness, Jason Neelis, und Roderick J McIntosh. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, 2021
‘Anahita at the Achaemenid Period’. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, Ed.b... more ‘Anahita at the Achaemenid Period’. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, Ed.by Daniel T Potts, Ethan Harkness, Jason Neelis, and Roderick J McIntosh. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, 25, Nr. 1–3, pp. 105–31, 2021
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 31(3), 515-534 (Festschrift François de Blois), 2021
The immensity of the corpus and diversity of genres of Classical New Persian in Judeo-Persian gar... more The immensity of the corpus and diversity of genres of Classical New Persian in Judeo-Persian garb is remarkable, comprising a wide-ranging multitude of genres from translations of the Tanakh and rabbinic works to chronicles, lexicographies, religious poetry, translations of medieval Hebrew poems, and a large corpus of non-Jewish Classical Persian literature transcribed in Hebrew script. Yet, Judeo-Persian literary corpora remain incompletely catalogued as well as unsatisfactorily studied. While detailed studies of the genres of Judeo-Persian literature-in-transcription, as well as comparisons with literature in the common Perso-Arabic script, are still desiderata, this article aims to undertake a preliminary survey of the extant Judeo-Persian versions of the Dīvān of Šams od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ of Shiraz (d. 792/1390) and address some contextual aspects of its popularity among Iranian Jewry.
Zaraθuštrōtǝma. Zoroastrian and Iranian Studies in Honour of Philip G. Kreyenbroek, 2020
Persian Translation of: Mary Boyce, A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism. Based on the Ratanbai Katrak Lectures, 1975 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977). 3. از زمان چاپ اين كتاب تا به امروز، نقدهاي متعددي, 2019
Gedenkschrift für Klaus Schippmann: Beiträge zur Religion, Geschichte und Kunst des Alten Iran
The concept of the Zoroastrian succession probably originated in a very early phase of the develo... more The concept of the Zoroastrian succession probably originated in a very early phase of the development of the faith and was already discussed in the Young Avestan texts. However, it seems as if the structuring of an apostolic succession of Zaraθuštra developed only in later periods, and that its reconstruction is possible only on the basis of the writings of the Zoroastrian church leaders and theologians of the Late Sasanian as well as early Islamic period. At the latest during the Sasanian period, after the spread of the two competing religions of Christianity and Manichaeism in the Persian Empire, the Zoroastrian church leaders had to deal again with the question of religious authority and that of the succession. By means of different theological attempts, they constructed a »historicized« chain of succession, which claimed a direct connection to the »true« doctrine of the »good religion«. Ahura Mazdā revealed this doctrine to his prophet Zaraθuštra, who passed it along the chain of »first and early teachers / sages«. The reconstruction of a number of priestly titles and offices, should also ensure the structures of an organized succession. The legitimation of this kind of transmission of the religious office was defined within the framework of the priest-pupil relationship, whose task was at the same time the transfer of religious knowledge.
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Books by Shervin Farridnejad
Next application period: 15 February – 31 March 2024
Both the author and the editor of this volume are trained practicing calligraphers and illuminators, who learned the art of calligraphy and illumination through long, traditional study under masters of this art.
Farridnejad zeichnet die Darstellungsweise und Entwicklung der zoroastrischen Götterbilder nach und analysiert den Ursprung ihrer Ikonographie innerhalb der iranischen religiösen Bildsprache, insbesondere im Wechselspiel mit den in der schriftlich überlieferten Tradition bewahrten religiösen Ideen. Der Autor widmet sich in seiner umfassenden und reich bebilderten Studie den teilweise komplex aufgebauten Götterbildern, die als vielschichtige Bedeutungsträger im religiösen Leben der alten Zoroastrier eine große Rolle spielten. Darüber hinaus ermittelt er allgemeine formale Strukturen, beleuchtet ihre Genese und erforscht den „Sitz im Leben“ der Götterbilder, indem er vor allem die literarische Überlieferung des zoroastrischen Corpus im Avestischen und Mittelpersischen berücksichtigt. Farridnejad bietet so erstmals einen umfassenden, methodisch fundierten Überblick über die zoroastrische Bildersprache im Kontext von Religion und Kultur des vorislamischen Iran.
The volume consists of eleven papers written by some of the foremost scholars in the field of Iranian Studies as well as some of his lifetime friends and colleagues. The articles are essentially concerned with different aspects of Ancient Iranian Art, Archaeology, History, Numismatics and Religion, reflecting Klaus Schippmann’s scholarly interests. The volume also presents parts of his unpublished private diary (1959) from his Nachlass, reflecting his ideas, visions and memories of his excavations as well as a report of his last trip to his favourable archaeological site of taḫt-e soleymān (Iran), written by his personal tour leader. The book is illustrated by numerous plates.
Papers and Contributions to Books by Shervin Farridnejad
Next application period: 15 February – 31 March 2024
Both the author and the editor of this volume are trained practicing calligraphers and illuminators, who learned the art of calligraphy and illumination through long, traditional study under masters of this art.
Farridnejad zeichnet die Darstellungsweise und Entwicklung der zoroastrischen Götterbilder nach und analysiert den Ursprung ihrer Ikonographie innerhalb der iranischen religiösen Bildsprache, insbesondere im Wechselspiel mit den in der schriftlich überlieferten Tradition bewahrten religiösen Ideen. Der Autor widmet sich in seiner umfassenden und reich bebilderten Studie den teilweise komplex aufgebauten Götterbildern, die als vielschichtige Bedeutungsträger im religiösen Leben der alten Zoroastrier eine große Rolle spielten. Darüber hinaus ermittelt er allgemeine formale Strukturen, beleuchtet ihre Genese und erforscht den „Sitz im Leben“ der Götterbilder, indem er vor allem die literarische Überlieferung des zoroastrischen Corpus im Avestischen und Mittelpersischen berücksichtigt. Farridnejad bietet so erstmals einen umfassenden, methodisch fundierten Überblick über die zoroastrische Bildersprache im Kontext von Religion und Kultur des vorislamischen Iran.
The volume consists of eleven papers written by some of the foremost scholars in the field of Iranian Studies as well as some of his lifetime friends and colleagues. The articles are essentially concerned with different aspects of Ancient Iranian Art, Archaeology, History, Numismatics and Religion, reflecting Klaus Schippmann’s scholarly interests. The volume also presents parts of his unpublished private diary (1959) from his Nachlass, reflecting his ideas, visions and memories of his excavations as well as a report of his last trip to his favourable archaeological site of taḫt-e soleymān (Iran), written by his personal tour leader. The book is illustrated by numerous plates.
Rituale erstrecken sich über ein breites Spektrum von sozialen und örtlichen Umgebungen, von Häusern bis zu Feuerheiligtümern und von der Antike bis zur Moderne. Während die Quellen zur Erforschung der zoroastrischen Rituale in der vormodernen Zeit sich vorwiegend auf von Priestern komponierten und überlieferten Textquellen beschränken, verfügen wir für die moderne und zeitgenössische Zeit über eine breitere Menge von Quellen, darunter die lebendige Tradition der Priester- und Laienrituale. Der Vortrag beschäftigt sich mit der Präsenz und Bedeutung der Rituale an sich sowie den rituellen Traditionen im Zoroastrismus.
In this presentation, I gave an analysis of certain features of Zoroastrian imagery and went through the problematic of “Zoroastrian (an)iconism” and “cult-images”. This way I hope to contribute to our knowledge of the development of the Zoroastrian iconography, an under-researched topic in Ancient Iranian and Zoroastrian studies.
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For an intake in October 2023, we are looking for candidates with very good English language skills (level B2 or higher) holding a first qualifying degree (B.A., B.Sc.) in one of the following disciplines (or a related one):
African Studies, Ancient History, Art History, Assyriology, Austronesian Studies, Classical Archaeology, Coptology, Ethiopian Studies, Greek Studies, Historical Musicology, Indology, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Japanese Studies, Jewish Studies, Medieval and Modern History, Sinology, Thai Studies, Turkology, Vietnamese Studies.
To support applications from international and/or economically disadvantaged students in particular, the Cluster allocates one-year qualifying fellowships (934 €/month). For further information, please see this website: https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/study-at-csmc/master.html
A live Q&A session on Zoom with the Head of Programme, Professor Dr Shervin Farridnejad, and coordinator Dr Merryl Rebello takes place on 23 February 2023, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CET. Interested candidates can register for it via this link: https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/en/register-q-a-session1