The Situation of Women in the Sāssānīān Social System in the Post-Mazdak Era and Its Impact on the Writing of the Ardāvīrāfnāme
The Situation of Women in the Sāssānīān Social System in the Post-Mazdak Era and Its Impact on the Writing of the Ardāvīrāfnāme

Mohammad Bahrami; Shahnaz Hojati najafabadi

Volume 31, Issue 51 , November 2021, , Pages 73-95

https://doi.org/10.22051/hii.2020.32341.2284

Abstract
  According to the content of jurisprudential and legal books compiled during the Sāssānīān period and according to scholars of this field, gender is one of the basis and criteria ...  Read More
Jiroft Civilization: Based on the Cuneiform Texts and Archaeological Evidences from Varamin and Konar Sandal
Jiroft Civilization: Based on the Cuneiform Texts and Archaeological Evidences from Varamin and Konar Sandal

Nasir Eskandari; Massimo Vidale; Ali akbar Mesgar; Mojgan Shafiee; Meysam Shahsavari; Francois Desset; Akbar Abedi; Salman Anjomroz; Ali Shahdadi

Volume 30, Issue 47 , November 2020, , Pages 11-29

https://doi.org/10.22051/hii.2020.31042.2234

Abstract
  Recent archaeological discoveries in the Halilrud valley (Kerman province, Iran), especially at the Site of Varamin and Konar Sandal of Jiroft,  brought to light a hitherto unknown ...  Read More
Reflections on Multiple Readings of the Mani Movement in the Historiography of the First Centuries
Reflections on Multiple Readings of the Mani Movement in the Historiography of the First Centuries

Shahnaz Hojati najafabadi; Jafar Nouri

Volume 30, Issue 47 , November 2020, , Pages 87-108

https://doi.org/10.22051/hii.2020.31762.2263

Abstract
  In the representation and retelling of the Mani religious movement in the first centuries' historiography, three main approaches can be identified except in a few narrations. These ...  Read More
Iranian and Chinese Relations in the Sassanid Period and Its Impact on Chinese Culture, Based on the Chinese Sources
Iranian and Chinese Relations in the Sassanid Period and Its Impact on Chinese Culture, Based on the Chinese Sources

Hamidreza Pashazanous

Volume 30, Issue 45 , May 2020, , Pages 9-35

https://doi.org/10.22051/hii.2020.24421.1912

Abstract
  In general, Iranian and Chinese Relations in the Sassanid period can be divided into two periods: from the beginning to the reign of Yazdgerd III and from the Yazdgerd rule and the ...  Read More
How Yazdgerd III Ascend to the Throne? 
(Study of Historical Sources with Emphasis on Shahnameh)
How Yazdgerd III Ascend to the Throne? (Study of Historical Sources with Emphasis on Shahnameh)

Zagros Zand

Volume 30, Issue 45 , May 2020, , Pages 87-106

https://doi.org/10.22051/hii.2020.26605.2024

Abstract
  Most of the Arabic-Persian and other sources have dealt with Yazdgerd III coronation. There are much confusion and inconsistency in these sources. In this study, the historical data ...  Read More
A Comparative Study of Primeval Creation in Ancient Persia’s Beliefs and Isma’ilist Thoughts
A Comparative Study of Primeval Creation in Ancient Persia’s Beliefs and Isma’ilist Thoughts

Abbas Masiha; Maryam Moezzi

Volume 30, Issue 45 , May 2020, , Pages 177-201

https://doi.org/10.22051/hii.2020.27442.2075

Abstract
  In terms of Zurvanist teachings, the creation of humanity divides into mediated and immediate. There are analogies between this mythical teaching and Isma’ilist teaching. The ...  Read More
Royal Legitimacy in the Elamite Inscriptions
Royal Legitimacy in the Elamite Inscriptions

Ehsan Afkande

Volume 26, Issue 32 , March 2017, , Pages 9-31

https://doi.org/10.22051/hii.2017.10299.1151

Abstract
  In the early states, most important aspect of royal legitimacy was the sanctity of kingship which made of king, a mediator between Heaven and the Earth. Such sanctity had been acquired ...  Read More
Historiography in Ancient Iran, its nature
and style with respect to different approaches
to the concept of
Historiography in Ancient Iran, its nature and style with respect to different approaches to the concept of "History"

Esmaeil Sangari; Alireza Karbasi

Volume 26, Issue 30 , June 2016, , Pages 167-218

https://doi.org/10.22051/hii.2016.2506

Abstract
  Although the great empires in ancient Iran, caused great changes in the world, however the lack of a tremendous historical works in this period, made some historians conclude that ancient ...  Read More