Issue 02

I Articles

• Victorious: The “Arrogance” of Šāhānšah Xusrō Parvīz
  Keenan Baca-Winters
• Whipping the Sea and the Earth: Xerxes at the Hellespont and Yima at the Vara
  Touraj Daryaee
• Dancing in Middle & Classical Persian
  Touraj Daryaee & Nina Mazhjoo
• The Niyāyišn and the bagas (Brief comments on the so-called Xorde Avesta, 2)
  Götz König
•  Jamshīdī Nō-Rūz : Facts v/s Myth
  Dastur Firoze M. Kotwal
• An orgy of Oriental dissipation? Some thoughts on the ‘Camel lekythos’
  Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
• The Turkish Iranian emigration as perceived by the Maathir al-Umara (1544-1629)
  Marc Morato
• Survey of Šāhnāme sources. 1. The so-called *Paykār and *Sagēsarān
  Mohsen Zakeri

II Reviews

• Asatrian, Garnik S. & Viktoria Arakelova. 2014. The religion of the Peacock Angel: the Yezidis and their spirit world.
  Vahé S. Boyajian
• Shahbazi, A. Shapur, Tārīḫ-e sāsānīān. Tarjome-ye baḫš-e sāsānīān az ketāb-e tārīḫ-e Ṭabarī va moqāyese-ye ān bā tārīḫ-e Bal’amī [Sasanian History. Translation of the Sasanian Section from the History of Ṭabari and its Commparission with the History of Bal’ami], Tehran, Iran University Press, 1389š/2010.
  Touraj Daryaee
• Timuş, Mihaela. 2015. Cosmogonie et eschatologie: articulations conceptuelles du système religieux zoroastrien. (Cahiers de Studia Iranica 54). Paris: Peeters Press.
  Shervin Farridnejad
• Briant, Pierre. 2015. Darius in the shadow of Alexander. (Trans.) Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
• Bridges, Emma. 2014. Imagining Xerxes: ancient perspectives on a Persian king. (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception). New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
  Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

III Obituary

• Malek Iradj MOCHIRI (1927–2015)
  Ehsan Shavarebi