by Arzan Sam Wadia | Jul 5, 2017 | Featured Selection
FIRES organized a spectacular exhibition as part of the 30th FEZANA Annual General Meeting in Houston. To kick off the exhibition, FIRES invited Aban Marker-Kabraji as the Keynote speaker. Below is a video recording of the talk Aban Marker Kabraji Aban Marker...
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)....
by FIRES | Nov 10, 2014 | Featured Selection
The book, ”In Search of My Master”, is written by the famous author Marjorie Husain and displays the 40-year artistic journey of legendary Pakistani artist Jimmy Engineer. The book’s full-page color reproductions of scenes from the independence movement of Pakistan,...
by FIRES | Nov 6, 2014 | Book Review
Behramshah Shroff, who founded the Ilm-e-Kshnoom (science of ecstasy or bliss) movement is said to have received instruction on the mystical aspects of Zoroastrianism from 72 Magav (Magi) priests called Abed Saheb-e-Dilan who lead a group of approximately 2000...
by FIRES | Nov 6, 2014 | Book Review
Have you ever laughed so hard in a play that tears rolled down your cheeks and your stomach hurt so much that you wanted the actors to stop, if just for a few seconds, so that you could recover? It happened to me when my parents took me to see Behram Ni Sasu. Now...
