A digital toolbox for
Iranian Studies and beyond
Last updated: 7 October 2021
Currently featuring 650 digital resources
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Digital resources of the week
Translatio: Persian periodicals
A growing set of high quality scans of historical Persian periodicals, maintained by the Translatio digitization project at the University of Bonn.
Bibliographia Iranica
A great bibliography blog documenting new publications from various disciplines, run by Arash Zeini, Sajad Amiri, Shervin Farridnejad and Yazdan Safaee.
پژوهشهای ایرانشناسی
A semi-annual publication on Iranian Studies published by the Faculty of Humanities and Literature of Tehran University.
تاریکخانه
The section „tārīkḫāne“ (darkroom) presents one old photograph every week. Suggestions are always welcome.
The latest blog posts
- A digital toolbox for Iranian Studies and beyondA research repository for finding literature, sources, and more.
- On the Book of Eternity: Orkhan Mir-Kasimov’s „Words of Power“
A review of „Words of Power. Ḥurūfī teachings between Shiʿism and Sufism in medieval Islam. The original doctrine of Faḍl Allāh Astarābādī“. - Vom Buch der Ewigkeit: Orkhan Mir-Kasimovs „Words of Power“Eine Rezension zu „Words of Power. Ḥurūfī teachings between Shiʿism and Sufism in medieval Islam. The original doctrine of Faḍl Allāh Astarābādī“.
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Vezvez-e kandū („the humming of the beehive“) is a blog dedicated to Iranian Studies and tries to trace voices, narratives and questions in this diverse field from a cultural sciences perspective. If you want to know more about me and this project, click here or check out the Editorial section.
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