by FIRES | Apr 29, 2019 | Featured Selection
Down Memory Lane was a specially curated exhibition on the occassion of the inauguration of the Bhandara Atash Kadeh in Houston. A full report of the event is here on our...
by FIRES | Jul 29, 2016 | Featured Selection
Professor Almut Hintze FBA, Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS University of London, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator Grant of just under €2.5 million (ca. £2 million) to investigate the Yasna, the core...
by FIRES | Jul 28, 2016 | Book Review
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism, edited by M. Stausberg and Y. S-D. Vevaina with Anna Tessmann. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. Pp. 668. ISBN: 9781444331356 This book review originally appeared in the FEZANA Journal Winter 2015 Issue and...
by FIRES | Dec 9, 2014 | Book Review
Few would dispute today that religion has been playing a pervasive role in the political and social lives of people in Iran. Indeed, never has cogent understanding of religions and their complexities in Iran seem more important than in the recent decades. Increasing...
by FIRES | Dec 5, 2014 | Book Review
In Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World, Reza Zarghamee relates a shocking omission. “Ferdowsi does not mention Cyrus in the Shahnameh, and the Sasanids seemingly have no memory of him through local Persian traditions” (535)....
