Iranian studies

Iranian studies (Persian: ايران‌شناسی Īrānšenāsī), also called to as Iranology and Iranistics, is the study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It is a part of of Oriental studies.

In Iranology, there is also Persian studies. In Persian studies, one only studies the Persian language and literature.[1] Iranology also studies the history of individual types of Iranian peoples, such as Azeris, Kurds, Lurs, Gilakis, Talysh, Tajiks, Pashtuns, Ossetians, Baluchis, Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, Parthians, Sogdians, Bactrians, Khwarazmians, and Mazandaranis.

Famous Iranologists

Book series

Journals and magazines

  • Abstracta Iranica
  • Acta Iranica
  • Analytica Iranica
  • Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan
  • Ars Orientalis, from the Freer Gallery of Art and the University of Michigan
  • Bukhara magazine[2]
  • DABIR
  • Farhang-i Kerman
  • Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies
  • Indo-Iranica
  • Indo-Iranian Journal
  • Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies
  • Iran Analysis Quarterly (ISG Journal)
  • Iranica Antiqua edited by Department of Near Eastern Studies of Gent University
  • Iran and the Caucasus journal
  • Iranian Studies journal
  • Iran-nameh: Armenian Journal of Oriental Studies
  • Iranshinakht
  • Iranshenasi
  • Iranica Antiqua journal
  • Iranistische Mitteilungen
  • The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME)
  • Namah-i Farhangistan
  • Nowruz Journal
  • Majallah-yi Zabanshinasi
  • Manuscripta Orientalia (includes articles on Persian manuscripts)
  • Namah-i Farhangistan
  • Persica, from Jaarboek van het Genootschap Nederland-Iran
  • Rahavard
  • Studia Iranica
  • Zabanshinas

Related pages

  • Indo-European Studies
  • Iranian Languages
  • Iranian World
  • Iranology Foundation
  • Culture of Iran
  • Persian Literature
  • Central Asian Studies
  • Armenian Studies
  • Turkology
  • Assyriology
  • Egyptology
  • Academy of Persian Language and Literature
  • Encyclopædia Iranica
  • Chicago's Persian heritage crisis
  • International rankings of Iran

References

  1. Akbarzadeh, Pejman (December 10, 2005). "معضلى هفتادساله براى شناخت فرهنگ ايران در غرب" [Seventy years of difficulty in understanding Iranian culture in the West]. Shargh Newspaper (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2007-02-24.
  2. Jami, Mehdi (March 22, 2005). "چله بخارا" [Bukhara Magazine]. BBC Persian (in Persian). Retrieved 2021-11-22.

Other websites

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