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Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Firetemple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān (2025)
Journal Article
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (2025). Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Firetemple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān. Iranian Studies, 58(1), 19-49. https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2024.54

This article examines five Sasanian bullae from the fire temple of Ādur Gušnasp with seal impressions depicting Aphrodite and Eros, and Aphrodite Anadyomene, from the fire temple of Ādur Gušnasp. The original seal with Aphrodite and Eros likely dates... Read More about Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Firetemple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān.

Chandonuśāsana of Vāgbhaṭa: An Unpublished Jain Text on Prosody (2024)
Journal Article
Prabhudesai, A. (2024). Chandonuśāsana of Vāgbhaṭa: An Unpublished Jain Text on Prosody. International Journal of Jaina Studies, 20(4), 1-11

The article aims to introduce the unpublished text Chandonuśāsana by Vāgbhaṭa, accompanied by his own commentary titled vivaraṇa. Two manuscripts of this text are available. The main points covered in this article include an overview of the manuscrip... Read More about Chandonuśāsana of Vāgbhaṭa: An Unpublished Jain Text on Prosody.

Emotion as Karmic Mode: Rasa in Ajitasena's Alaṅkāra-Cintāmaṇi (15th Century) (2024)
Journal Article
Restifo, A. (2024). Emotion as Karmic Mode: Rasa in Ajitasena's Alaṅkāra-Cintāmaṇi (15th Century). International Journal of Jaina Studies, 20(2), 1-22

In his Alaṅkāra-cintāmaṇi (“Wish-Granting Jewel of Ornament”), Ajitasena, a fifteenth-century Jain monk from the Digambara Senagaṇa lineage, connects the rise of sthāyi-bhāva (stable emotion) with different types of material karmas. This paper invest... Read More about Emotion as Karmic Mode: Rasa in Ajitasena's Alaṅkāra-Cintāmaṇi (15th Century).

Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence (2024)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (2025). Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence. History and Anthropology, 36(3), 435-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2435662

Pir Muhammad Karwan’s 2000 poetry collection Da Xāperey Werghowey traces a history of materiality, emotion, and imagination across human-environmental systems as they are militarized over twenty years in Afghanistan. At the same as it is a unique nar... Read More about Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence.

An enigmatic word in the Gathas: auuǝ̄mīrā in Yasna 49.10 (2024)
Book Chapter
Hintze, A. (2024). An enigmatic word in the Gathas: auuǝ̄mīrā in Yasna 49.10. In A. Cantera, É. V. Pirart, & C. Redard (Eds.), at̰ hōi aōjī zaraϑuštrō paōuruuīm ¿Habló Zaraϑuštra? Homenaje a Jean Kellens en su 80º anniversario (125-135). Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios

This article discusses various proposal for analysing the enigmatic form auuǝ̄mīrā, which constitutes the last word of the Gathic stanza Yasna 49.10. It is then proposed that the word is best understood as *a-u̯i-mī-ra- ‘undiminishing’. Being a compo... Read More about An enigmatic word in the Gathas: auuǝ̄mīrā in Yasna 49.10.

Mahsati Ganjavi (2023)
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Hammond, M. Mahsati Ganjavi. Cham

Mahsati Ganjavi was a pioneer of the Persian quatrain (rubaʿi) who flourished in the eleventh or, as is more likely, the twelfth century CE. Her surname suggests she hailed from the city of Ganja, in modern-day Azerbaijan. After her fourteenth-centur... Read More about Mahsati Ganjavi.

Interactions between religious minorities and the Zoroastrian fire temple in the light of new clay sealings from Taḵt-e Solaymān (2023)
Book Chapter
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (2023). Interactions between religious minorities and the Zoroastrian fire temple in the light of new clay sealings from Taḵt-e Solaymān. In R. Gyselen (Ed.), Reflets d'époques sassanide et post-sassanide (224-760) (153-176). Groupe pour l'étude de la civilisation du Moyen-Orient

This article addresses, for the first time, seal impressions of four bullae, discovered by Yousef Moradi at the World Heritage site of Taḵt-e Solaymān, showing Jewish and Christian iconography in the context of the economic and administrative activit... Read More about Interactions between religious minorities and the Zoroastrian fire temple in the light of new clay sealings from Taḵt-e Solaymān.

The Trimandiras of the Akrama Vijñāna Mārga (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2023). The Trimandiras of the Akrama Vijñāna Mārga. In P. Flügel, H. De Jonckheere, & R. Söhnen-Thieme (Eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (172-193). Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

The analysis of the standard practice of image-veneration in
the Akram Vijñan Mārg enables us to answer the question about the differences between the spiritual (adhyātmika) discourses of A.M. Paṭel, his elder contemporary Kanajī Svāmī, and of Śrīma... Read More about The Trimandiras of the Akrama Vijñāna Mārga.

Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (2023)
Book
Flügel, P., De Jonckheere, H., & Söhnen-Thieme, R. (Eds.). (2023). Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions. Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

Jaina thinkers developed different perspectives on the relationship between the soul and the material non-soul. These perspectives can be categorised into two basic stances, namely classical and spiritualistic Jaina philosophy, each with its variants... Read More about Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions.

Pure Soul: Conceptions and Representations (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2023). Pure Soul: Conceptions and Representations. In P. Flügel, H. De Jonckheere, & R. Söhnen-Thieme (Eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (4-14). Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

The history of the Jaina philosophical discourse on the soul
is yet to be written. It will inevitably focus on the ways in which
the relationship between soul and body is conceived, and what
practical implications the various stances carry. For Ja... Read More about Pure Soul: Conceptions and Representations.

Six Jaina Bronzes (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P., Krüger, P., & Shah, P. (2023). Six Jaina Bronzes. In P. Flügel, H. De Jonckheere, & R. Söhnen-Thieme (Eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (96-103). Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

Jain metal altars can be found in numerous museums and
collections outside India. Most of these objects come from
western India and were produced between the 11th and 19th
century. Although large numbers of these altar pieces exist, an
in-depth s... Read More about Six Jaina Bronzes.

Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (2022)
Book
Dorfmann, I. (Ed.). (2022). Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Peeters. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2tjdgt6

This volume is one of the few collections of studies that looks at the South Caucasus - from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east - as a shared cultural space. It explores contacts between Armenians, Georgians, Kurds and Muslims o... Read More about Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation (2022)
Journal Article
Caron, J., & Khan, S. (2022). Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation. Critical Asian Studies, 54(2), 149-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2022.2030776

This article’s premise is that war is ontological devastation, and that this opens up questions as to how to write about it. It contends that even critiques of war, whether critical-geopolitical analyses of global structures or ethnographies of the e... Read More about Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation.

Johannes Klatt, Librarian for Oriental Manuscripts at the Royal Library in Berlin from 1872 to 1892 (2022)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2022). Johannes Klatt, Librarian for Oriental Manuscripts at the Royal Library in Berlin from 1872 to 1892. In S. Mangold-Will, C. Rauch, & S. Schmitt (Eds.), Sammler-Bibliothekare-Forscher: Zur Geschichte der Orientalischen Sammlungen an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (151-207). Klostermann

The article is a revised and expanded extract of Flügel, Peter (2016) 'Life and Work of Johannes Klatt'. In: Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius, (eds.), Jaina-Onomasticon. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 9-164.

Edward William West and the Pahlavi codex MK (2021)
Journal Article
Hintze, A. (2021). Edward William West and the Pahlavi codex MK. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 31(3), 545-557. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186321000225

This article discusses some manuscripts copied and described by E. W. West in his Notebooks held at the Royal Asiatic Society, with special reference to the texts contained in the Pahlavi codex MK.

Jaina-Prosopography Database (2021)
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Flügel, P., & Krümpelmann, K. (. Jaina-Prosopography Database. [Data]

In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society. From its region of origin in modern Bihar it spread across most parts of South Asia and beyond. In the process... Read More about Jaina-Prosopography Database.

A new sealing of Pērōz from Tak̠t-e Solaymān and its historical context (2020)
Book Chapter
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (2020). A new sealing of Pērōz from Tak̠t-e Solaymān and its historical context. In R. Gyselen (Ed.), Persia, 552 BCE-758 CE : primary sources, old and new (111-134). Groupe pour l'étude de la civilisation du Moyen-Orient

The fragment of the bulla under discussion here (inv.no. 10917) is one of 824 clay bullae recovered from the World Heritage site of Taḵt-e Solaymān during archaeological excavations conducted in 2002–2008 by an Iranian team under the direction of You... Read More about A new sealing of Pērōz from Tak̠t-e Solaymān and its historical context.