Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Forthcoming book! By Naïra Sahakyan and the IFI's Shamil Shikhaliev, this book shows the turbulence of 1917 Dagestan via the work of Muslim intellectual ʿAlī al-Ghumuqī, containing both scholarship on and translations of his works: www.lockwoodpress.com/product-page... #Dagestan #History #Caucasus 030
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Talk next Wednesday! Yoichi Isahaya will talk about how in early 14th century Ilkhanate Anatolia, famine and climate crisis were drawn into discourses of legitimacy and political stability. Details & online registration here: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta... #Mongols #History #Medieval #Anatolia 052
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We have a new blogpost on our Tigris to Talas blog! Lola Dodkhudoeva writes about the Manāqib al-Khulafāʾ, a Tajik-Persian manuscript arguing about politics, faith, and religious order through celebrating the Rashidun caliphs: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/blog/det... #Tajikistan #History #Manuscriptsoeaw.ac.atWhen Manuscripts Begin to Speak: Discovering Political and Religious Ideas in Sixteenth-Century Central Asiaby Lola Dodkhudoeva 010
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Our own Sara Mihramadi recently talked to BBC Persian about the effects of the Mongol invasions - what was the level of Mongol destruction, and how reliably do written texts at the time reflect the realities of the situation? You can watch it here (in Persian) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2A8...youtube.comپرگار: حمله مغول به ایرانYouTube video by BBC Persian 000
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Our new Material Histories@IFI group connects scholars of material culture and textual history. We aim to bring archaeology, materiality, and rural and urban landscapes into conversation with epigraphy, numismatics and texts for new longue durée perspectives, focused on the long first millennium. 135
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Last week we had a whole range of contributions at the Fifteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference in Utrecht! Thanks to everyone who came along to our sessions and talks. #IranianStudies #Iranology #Iran #History #Anthropology 111
Reposted by Institute for Iranian StudiesInstitute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Our Caucasus research group are organising a picnic for interested researchers and research-adjacent colleagues! Do join us if you're in Vienna on 8th August: we'll meet at Donaustadtbrucke at 15:30. Enquiries welcome, do forward to anyone you know who might be interested! #Caucasus #Wien 012
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Just over a week ago we were at the International Armenological Congress in Yerevan! Dr. James Baillie and Dr. Polina Ivanova presented on the ways that our work includes Armenology and Caucasus Studies, showcasing a range of forthcoming projects. #IranianStudies #Armenia #Armenology #Yerevan 020
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Our Caucasus research group are organising a picnic for interested researchers and research-adjacent colleagues! Do join us if you're in Vienna on 8th August: we'll meet at Donaustadtbrucke at 15:30. Enquiries welcome, do forward to anyone you know who might be interested! #Caucasus #Wien 012
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Last week many of us had a great time sharing research at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social - including Bruno de Nicola of @nomaland.bsky.social on a Medieval Persian Mineralology treatise, Stefan Kamola on Mongol Astrology and Divination... #medieval #academia #IranianStudies #Persian 131
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Talk this Monday at 5 for those in Vienna: Carol Fan will be talking about perceptions of China in Khata’i’s 'Account of China' and discussing what this means for understanding Ottoman use and idealisations of China in political life. See you there! #Ottoman #China #History #IranianStudies 041
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Event next Monday - join us for this talk by Jakub Havlik! You can join us in person at the PSK Wien or online, register here: oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CentralAsia #LateAntiquity #Farming #Archaeology #Uzbekistan 100
Reposted by Institute for Iranian StudiesNoMansLand @nomaland.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Podcast sobre el libro "Mongoles en el Oeste" El imperio mongol desde la península ibérica. Con la presencia de los editores Antonio García Espada y Bruno De Nicola @ivoox.bsky.social @uneduniv.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @iranianstudies.bsky.social go.ivoox.com/rf/173128931go.ivoox.comMongoles en el Oeste - Historias de Bolsillo - Podcast en iVooxEscucha este episodio de Historias de Bolsillo gratis en iVoox. En el programa de hoy viajamos a la Edad Media para analizar el peso del imperio mongol en la península ibérica de los siglos XIII en ad... 011
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Call for Participants for our Summer Academy, 17-30 August 2026, to be held in Khorog, Tajikistan! This year's focus will be cultural heritage in Central Asia. Please do share widely! Plaintext version at: oeawiranistik.at/plaintexts/S... #IranianStudies #CentralAsia #Tajikistan #CulturalHeritage 021
Reposted by Institute for Iranian StudiesNoMansLand @nomaland.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Call for Papers: International conference: “Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Transformation of Eurasia” 14–17 July 2027, Vienna (Austria) @iranianstudies.bsky.social @nomaland.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @coe-eurasia.bsky.social 054
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 10/04/2026In our 14-16 April workshop on Reza Shah's Iran, we have a program update: the keynote slot will now take the form of a roundtable, entitled "The Pahlavi Dynasty: A conversation on the history and legacy of a contested period in modern Iranian history"! Details at: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta... 100
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 09/04/2026We were happy to co-sponsor this event back in February, run by our medieval Caucasus specialist @jubalbarca.bsky.social: you can now watch various talks and panels on the ways that games and game development represent premodern/medieval worlds via the quoted thread: 000
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Upcoming event! On April 16th at 5pm, we will have a talk by Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian about her book Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World. www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/veran... #History #AncientHistory #IranianStudies #AncientWorld 122
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Next forthcoming event! We will be hosting the conference "Iran under Reza Shah: Politics, Culture and State Building in the Early Pahlavi Period (1925-1941)": www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta... #Iran #IranianStudies #Historyoeaw.ac.atIran under Reza Shah: Politics, Culture and State Building in the Early Pahlavi Period (1925-1941)International Workshop 100
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Congratulations to our director Prof. Florian Schwarz, who has been elected as a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences! Full ÖAW membership is one of Austria's highest academic distinctions: we are excited by this recognition of Florian's own work and his wider role in shaping our field 020
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 20/03/2026This Nowruz comes when many of us and our colleagues are living with great fear, uncertainty, and grief. We send best wishes at this time to friends in our shared endeavour of understanding the Iranian world, and all across the wider region, who are in danger, or afraid for friends and loved ones. 1177
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Mongols from the West, co-edited by our Dr. Bruno de Nicola, has now been published in Spanish as Mongoles en el Oeste! Mongoles en el Oeste explora el papel de los reinos ibéricos en la integración euroasiática impulsada por el Imperio mongol en los siglos XIII y XIV: brill.com/display/titl... 030
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Upcoming book talk! Dr. Nilab Saeedi will present her work on Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Lārī, especially his universal chronicle, Mirʾātu’l-Advār wa Mirḳātu’l-Aḫbār (The Mirror of Epochs and the Staircase of Historical Reports). Find out more: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/veran... #Persian #Ottoman #Iran #Historyoeaw.ac.atNilab Saeedi - Three Empires and Persian Historiography: The Thought of Muṣliḥ al-Dīn LārīBook talk 100
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 04/03/2026How did the Sasanian Empire really fall? Last month, the Sképsislamica podcast sat down with the IFI's @sasanianshah.bsky.social to find out, looking at the period's framing, Sasanian sources, religion, and how modern discourses shape scholarship on the Empire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTuk...youtube.comHow the Sasanian Empire REALLY Fell | A Conversation with Dr. Khodadad RezakhaniYouTube video by Sképsislamica 081
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Upcoming conference! European imperial expansion has long been a focal point for historians, but only more recently that have scholars begun to systematically question colonial knowledge production and rethink bureaucracy as an instrument of governance: #History #Archives #Knowledge #Imperialism 110
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Lecture coming up TODAY in just under three hours! This is organised by the Persian Manuscripts Association, who from March will be joining with our NoMansLand Webinar Series to co-organise a series of online lectures for the rest of 2026. Register to join at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 110
Reposted by Institute for Iranian StudiesExilian @exilianofficial.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Starting very soon with our Friday evening workshop session! Looking forward to an exciting weekend with everyone :) 002
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 17/02/2026A recent interview with the IFI's Dr. Robert Steele regarding the protests in #Iran - do have a read (in German): www.oeaw.ac.at/news/protest... #IranProtests #IranianStudiesoeaw.ac.atProteste im Iran: Experte erwartet Fall des RegimesNach landesweiten Protesten steht der Iran im Fokus internationaler Aufmerksamkeit. ÖAW-Iranist Robert Steele erklärt, warum die Proteste diesmal besonders brisant sind und weshalb er das Regime langf... 000
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 12/02/2026On February 19, at CEU, our Dr. Polina Ivanova will be giving a talk on how we write the histories of the absences of destroyed heritage, looking at the Ottoman history of Amasya. It will be in hybrid format - do join us for it! events.ceu.edu/2026-02-19/w... #Armenia #Turkey #History #Ottomanevents.ceu.eduWriting the Void: On the Methods and Ethics of Constructing the Memory of Absent Armenian Heritage within Ottoman Architectural and Social Histories: The Case of Early Ottoman Amasya 000
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 10/02/2026The IFI's @sasanianshah.bsky.social contributed to this segment on the recent Iran protests - have a listen and stay informed on the situation: oe1.orf.at/player/20260... (In German) #Iran #IranianStudiesoe1.orf.atORF-RadioDas digitale Radioangebot des ORF. Alle öffentlich rechtlichen Radiosender Österreichs auf einer Plattform. Live und 7 Tage lang im Stream on Demand. 000
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Our Caucasus research group is having another meetup - Caucasus and Caucasus-adjacent scholars across all Vienna institutions are very welcome! Details below: 021
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Event tomorrow on Prepositional Compounds in Avestan and Old Persian - this is an in-person guest lecture, if you're in Vienna tomorrow morning then please do come and join us! www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta...oeaw.ac.atPrepositional Compounds in Avestan and Old PersianIFI Guest lecture 010
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 21/01/2026New post on our blog! The term ságaris (σάγαρις) is used in classical sources for a specific weapon type attributed to the Scythians. But what was this weapon, and why this word? In the latest Tigris to Talas blogpost Hanna Vertiienko goes in search of answers: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/blog/...oeaw.ac.atThe Scythian ságaris: single- or double-bladed axe?by Hanna Vertiienko 010
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Forthcoming: a Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course! Jeanine Dagyeli is leading this effort along with Philip Bockholt from the University of Munster. It is aimed at building scholars up to an advanced level for reading Chagatai manuscripts. Details below: #CentralAsia #Chagatai #Manuscripts 010
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Our next hybrid lecture is "Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th C. Badakhshan" by Bruno de Nicola! The lecture is tomorrow, 17:00-18:30 Central European Time: more details at www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta...oeaw.ac.atSufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th C. BadakhshanWebinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts" 000
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Forthcoming event! We're soon hosting the Second European Round Table on Modern Persian Literature, co-organised by the University of New South Wales and with generous support from the Soudavar Memorial Foundation, Geneva. #Iran #Literature #Persian #PersianLiterature #IranianStudies 230
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Tomorrow (Dec 17) at 5pm Central European Time, please join us for a talk on Armenian manuscript-making in the Ottoman Empire, another of our webinars on premodern manuscripts from the Islamic world! 100
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 26/11/2025This Friday we will be having a talk by Fabian Sarga of the Fre University of Berlin, who will be talking about how qanat irrigation systems shaped the landscape - and how the landscape shaped them - in Iran! 110
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Our @sasanianshah.bsky.social will be doing some invited lectures at the University of Lille in the coming weeks! The topic is "The Orient’s East: Iran and Eurasia in the First Millennium CE" and three of the lectures will be available online with registration here: framaforms.org/the-orients-... 0103
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Our next @nomaland.bsky.social lecture will be tomorrow on the topic of Preaching, Books, and Community in Ottoman Hungary, by Prof. Tijana Krstić! Details available here: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta...oeaw.ac.atPreaching, Books, and Community in Ottoman Hungary: Browsing Through the Library Collection of Süleyman Efendi, the Vaiz of the Grand Mosque of Buda (c. 1643-1655)Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts" 010
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Our Caucasus research group is organising an October meetup! If you're based around Vienna and working on Caucasus studies of some kind, we'd love to see you there :) 040
Reposted by Institute for Iranian StudiesNoMansLand @nomaland.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Lecture by Dr. Sacha Alsancakli on "The Ottoman reception of the Nuzhat al-Qulūb (c.1340)" at the @nomaland.bsky.social Webinar. Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=MOqk... @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @iranianstudies.bsky.social @translapt.bsky.social @sachaalsancakli.bsky.social 021
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2025New faces at the IFI for the new academic year! Ilona Chmilevskia joins us as a pre-doctoral researcher working with Shamil Shikhaliev to study the transformation of Islamic juridical systems in the eastern Caucasus under the Russian Empire. Welcome to Ilona! 121
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 13/09/2025We have an open position for a pre-doctoral researcher in Dr. Ariane Sadjed's "Persian Jews – History, Community, Memory" team, looking at the Jewish communities of central Asia. See here for job profile and other details: applications must be in by October 1st. www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=pp87...oeaw.ac.atOffene Stellen an der ÖAWAktuelle Stellenausschreibungen aus den Instituten und der zentralen Verwaltung der ÖAW 032
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Event coming up in October! Our next JESHO workshop, convened by Dr. Paolo Sartori and with a keynote by Prof. Cemal Kafadar, is "Was There an Ottoman Decline?" Details here: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta... #Turkey #Ottoman #History #Asia #Economicsoeaw.ac.atWas There an Ottoman Decline?A JESHO International Workshop 101
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 01/09/2025In August we were at the biannual Conference of the Association of Persianate Studies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan! Thanks to the hosts and organisers: these vital spaces show the importance of having many and diverse disciplines and scholars building better research on the Persianate world together! 120
Reposted by Institute for Iranian StudiesNoMansLand @nomaland.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Nuevas investigaciones sobre #Mongoles en el #Oeste enteramente en #espanol editado por Antonio García Espada (@uneduniv.bsky.social) y Bruno De Nicola (@oeaw.bsky.social). Disponible en noviembre 2025! Más información: brill.com/display/titl... @iranianstudies.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.socialbrill.comMongoles en el Oeste"Mongoles en el Oeste" published on 27 Nov 2025 by Brill. 011
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Iran is facing severe drought. With high temperatures due to climate change, and tensions around water use and river flow, there are a range of potential risks ahead. An OEAW interview on the subject with our director, Prof. Florian Schwarz (in German): www.oeaw.ac.at/news/hitzewe...oeaw.ac.atHitzewelle und Wassermangel: Wie ist die aktuelle Lage in Iran?Temperaturen über 50 Grad und ein akuter Wassermangel stellen die Einwohner:innen Irans vor große Herausforderungen. ÖAW-Iranist Florian Schwarz erklärt, was es bräuchte, um die Dürre langfristig in d... 010