Ancient and Middle Iranian Studies" edited by Maria Macuch, Dieter Weber, and Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst is the first part of the "Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies" organized by the Societas Iranologica Europaea held in Vienna on the 18th-22nd of September 2007. It includes twenty-two papers on Ancient and Middle Iranian topics presented at the Conference, covering different linguistic areas such as Avestan, Old and Middle Persian, Sogdian and Bactrian. Within the linguistic context, the articles deal with archeological and historical aspects of south-western and north-eastern Iran, religious and legal topics as well as anthroponymic evidence from various periods.

"Scholars and Humanists contains a series of letters exchanged between the Iranian scholar and statesman, S.H. Taqizadeh, and the German Iranist W.B. Henning, between 1937 and 1966. The letters contain a wealth of information important to the history of Iranian studies in the twentieth century, specifically in relation to Manichaean studies, and Old and Middle Persian philology. Also important is insight provided regarding the prominent figures involved in the study of ancient Iran. Furthermore, the letters demonstrate the contribution of Taqizadeh, who was also a senator and an ambassador, as a scholar who studied the development of calendars and Iranistics, and his attempt at promoting Iranian studies both in Iran and abroad. Henning's letters demonstrate his uncanny erudition in the various aspects of ancient Iranian studies and his personal views about his fellow scholars and others affiliated with the field of Iranian Studies." --Book Jacket.

A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first

Preliminary material /ILYA GERSHEVITCH , MARY BOYCE , OLAF HANSEN , BERTOLD SPULER and MARK J. DRESDEN -- OLD IRANIAN LITERATURE /ILYA GERSHEVITCH -- MIDDLE PERSIAN LITERATURE /MARY BOYCE -- THE MANICHAEAN LITERATURE IN MIDDLE IRANIAN /MARY BOYCE -- DIE BUDDHISTISCHE UND CHRISTLICHE LITERATUR /OLAF HANSEN -- DIE HISTORISCHE UND GEOGRAPHISCHE LITERATUR IN PERSISCHER SPRACHE /BERTOLD SPULER -- SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF IRANIAN STUDIES: (Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Iranistik) /M. J. DRESDEN -- REGISTER /ILYA GERSHEVITCH , MARY BOYCE , OLAF HANSEN , BERTOLD SPULER and MARK J. DRESDEN.