English summary: Sasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World is a refereed journal that publishes papers on any aspect of the Sasanian Empire and its neighboring late antiquity civilizations. The journal welcomes essays on archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, numismatics, religion and any other disciplines which focuses on the Sasanian world. This annual publication focuses especially on recent discoveries in the field, historiographical studies, as well as editions and translations of texts and inscriptions. We aim to facilitate dialogue and contact among scholars of Sasanian Studies around the world. The journal will publish papers mainly in English, but also in German, French, Italian and may also consider Persian and Arabic. German description: Sasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World ist eine referierte Zeitschrift, die Beitrage zu allen Aspekten des Sassanidenreichs und seiner benachbarten spatantiken Zivilisationen veroffentlicht. Die Zeitschrift ist offen fur Essays zu Archaologie, Kunstgeschichte, Epigraphik, Geschichte, Numismatik, Religion und allen anderen Disziplinen, die sich mit der sassanidischen Welt befassen. Die Zeitschrift erscheint jahrlich und legt ihren Schwerpunkt insbesondere auf neueste Forschungsergebnisse, historiographische Studien sowie auf Editionen und Ubersetzungen von Texten und Inschriften. Ihr Ziel ist es, den Dialog und Kontakt zwischen Wissenschaftlern auf der ganzen Welt zu fordern, die sich mit dem Sassanidenreich beschaftigen. Die Zeitschrift veroffentlicht vor allem Beitrage auf Englisch, aber auch auf Deutsch, Franzosisch oder Italienisch und kann auch persische und arabische Sprachen berucksichtigen.

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of the Zoroastrian manuscripts, genealogy of the Sasanian kings, philological and historical studies on the basis of unpublished Pahlavi papyri from Sasanian period, Sasanian art and iconography, historical surveys on the late Sasanian period and the advent of the Islam, the Sasanian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. Die erste Ausgabe von Sasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World 1 (2022) zeichnet sich durch eine Auswahl innovativer Forschungen aus, die von exzellenten Gelehrten auf diesem Gebiet durchgefuhrt wurden. Die Beitrage decken bereits alle wichtigen Aspekte des Studiums der sasanidischen und spatantiken Welt ab, darunter das Studium der sasanidischen Fels- und Stuckreliefs, sasanidische Rituale im Kontext der zoroastrischen Manuskripte, Genealogie der sasanidischen Konige, philologische und historische Studien auf der Grundlage unveroffentlichter Pahlavi-Papyri aus der sasanidischen Zeit, Sasanische Kunst und Ikonographie, historische Untersuchungen uber die spate sasanische Periode und das Aufkommen des Islams, die sasanische politische Geschichte im Kaukasus, neue Aspekte der sasanischen Numismatik, die sasanische literarische Tradition sowie die spezifischen Aspekte des Studiums der Religionen wahrend der sasanidischen Zeit.

From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire temples, imperial administrators, Sasanian laws, Persian customs, and more quotidian details of Jewish life. Yet, in the scholarly literature on the Babylonian Talmud and the Jews of Babylonia , the Sasanian Empire has served as a backdrop to a decidedly parochial Jewish story, having little if any direct impact on Babylonian Jewish life and especially the rabbis. Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity advances a radically different understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and Sasanian rule. Building upon recent scholarship, Simcha Gross portrays a more immanent model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves. Babylonian Jews realized their traditions, teachings, and social position within the political, social, religious, and cultural conditions generated by Sasanian rule.

This collection of essays offers an examination of the Sasanian empire based almost entirely on archaeological and scientific research, much presented here for the first time. The book is divided into three parts examining Sasanian sites, settlements and landscapes; their complex agricultural resources; and their crafts and industries.

Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this highly readable history, Touraj Daryaee fills a significant gap in our knowledge of world history. He examines the Sasanians' complex and colourful narrative and demonstrates their unique significance, not only for development of Iranian civilization but also for Roman and Islamic history. The Sasanians were the last of the ancient Persian dynasties and are best known as the pre-eminent practitioners of the Zoroastrian religion. Founded by Ardashir l in 224 CE, the Sasanian Empire was the dominant force in the Middle East for several centuries until its last king, Yazdgerd lll, was defeated by the Muslim Arabs in the seventh century. In this concise yet comprehensive book, Touraj Daryaee provides an unrivalled account of Sasanian Persia. Drawing on extensive new sources, he paints a vivid portrait of Sasanian life and unravels the divergent strands that contributed to the making of this great empire. This new edition includes updated economic and political histories as well as several inscriptions that have been found in recent years.

The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires. All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is an exploration of kinship in the archaeological and historical record of Iran’s most ancient civilizations. D.T. Potts brings together history, archaeology, and social anthropology to provide an overview of what we can know about the kith and kinship ties in Iran, from prehistory to Elamite, Achaemenid, and Sasanian times. In so doing, he sheds light on the rich body of evidence that exists for kin relations in Iran, a topic that has too often been ignored in the study of the ancient world.