Welcome to the Digital Toolbox for Iranian Studies and related fields, a weekly updated research repository that currently lists 830 digital resources.
The toolbox aims at collecting all available digital resources that are relevant to Iranian Studies & related fields of study. It may help you to find:
- primary sources & academic literature
- manuscripts & objects in digital archives & collections
- historic maps, coinage, linguistic corpora
- academic publications & institutions
- podcasts, blogs & academic communities
- and useful apps for your research
Last updated: 1 April 2023 (Updates come every Thursday)
Latest toolbox entries
- The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads (a science blog of Freer & Sackler at the Smithsonian Institution that offers a wealth of information about the trade routes, art and material culture, ancient texts, religion and many more aspects of the Sogdians)
- GECMO – Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient (a research association focused on the historical Middle East. They also publish a journal and organize conferences, but their website and many links seem to be outdated or not well maintained)
- Russian Perspectives on Islam (a scholarly project at George Mason University that aims at documenting “the encounter and evolving relationship between the Orthodox/secular state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries”. The website builds an archive by gathering, digitizing, translating a growing number of primary sources and to make them available to the public)
- واژهباز / vājabāz – Musings on Persianate vocabulary (a very readable and enlightening blog about essential words and terms from the persianate world by Iskandar Ding)
- glottothèque: Ancient Indo-European Grammars Online (a project at the university of Göttingen has gathered experts to offer online course material on 12 Indo-European languages: Old Albanian, Classical Armenian, Avestan, Gothic, Ancient Greek, Hittite, Old Irish, Early Latin, Old Lithuanian, Old Church Slavonic, Tocharian, and Early Vedic)
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تاریکخانهی تاریخ
Tārīkḫāne-ye tārīḫ (the darkroom of history) presents one historic photograph every Tuesday. Suggestions are always welcome!
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Kurdish women at a weaving loom in Iran (taken before 1895)
Please note: For now, this post about an early photograph is still a draft or perhaps more an idea for a research topic. In the course of time, it will be expanded into a blog post that traces the background story of the photograph. If you are interested in writing a blog post about this…
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Sheikh Bābā Saʿīd Barzanǧī and his dervishes
The image shows Sheikh Bābā Saʿīd Barzanǧī (sitting) with his followers/derwishes (as he was a Sheikh of the Qaderiyya order). He was hanged in 1914 in Kahrīze by the Ottomans on the charge of having cooperated with Russian forces and offering support to Christians. Born in the village of Ġous̲ābād ca. 1856 (I found two…
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The Shah Mosque (the Soltāni Mosque) in Tehran
Please note: For now, this post about an early photograph is still a draft or perhaps more an idea for a research topic. In the course of time, it will be expanded into a blog post that traces the background story of the photograph. If you are interested in writing a blog post about this…
From the blog
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Über Schlaflosigkeit, GNU/Linux und Open Science
In diesem ersten Teil einer Blogartikelserie über Open Science, die in gedanklicher Auseinandersetzung mit den Texten meines Bloggerkollegen Thomas Schad entsteht, geht es um eine schlaflose Nacht vor dem Laptop und erste Assoziationen zu Begriffen der sogenannten Digitalen Transformation.
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در آستانهی باب گفتوگو
بحران روایت در ادبیات عامهپسند آلمانی دربارهی ایران و دفاعیهای از جستارنویسی به عنوان یک گونهی ادبی مناسبتر برای گزارش دادن از ایران
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Hari, hurra!
In ehrwürdigem Gedenken an Devreş, der, wie ich vernommen habe, nun seinen Weg zu Hak in einem neuen Gewand fortsetzt. Dieser Text lag jahrelang in der Schublade. Eine denkwürdige Begegnung mit Devreş im Café Kotti am Kottbusser Platz in Berlin, es muss wohl im Jahr 2015 gewesen sein.
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سحر سفر
در شبهای مهآلود بیپایان
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Im Rosenhag: Die Weise von der Rose und der Nachtigall
Von Land zu Land geht eine bittersüße Mär vom Vogel der bei Mondlicht anstimmt tausend Lieder.
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A digital toolbox for Iranian Studies and related fields
A research repository for finding sources, literature, and more.
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سماع
Samāʿ: Ein Gedicht und eine Klaviermelodie zum Gedächtnis der Tradition.
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Triptychon: Unter dem Rauch
Drei Sonette über die Dächer der Seelenschmiede, die wir Stadt nennen.
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Heimatlektüre
Gedanken über Fremdsein und Rastlosigkeit.
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vezvez-e kandū is a an independent research project to advance academic and public knowledge in the field of Iranian Studies. This blog is not funded by and not affiliated with any political or religious institution, group, party or movement. Any links shared on this blog or mentions of names are not endorsements.