CARLO CERETI

President

from Rome (Italy) who has been elected as Secretary of the S.I.E. After taking postgraduate courses at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, he completed his PhD in Iranian Studies in 1992. He was a visiting scholar from 1993-94 with a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Göttingen and from 1995-1998 a Contract Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome „La Sapienza“. From 1997-1999 he worked at the „Kommission für Iranistik“ of the „Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften“ in Vienna and was a lector of Middle Iranian languages at the „Institut für Sprachwissenschaft“ of the Vienna University. In May 1999 he was directeur d’études at the „École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris and from 2000 on University Researcher at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome „La Sapienza“. Since 2001 he is Ordinary Professor at the same University. In 2002 he was „directeur de recherche“ for three months of the UMRS „Monde iranien“, CNRS where he now is „membre associé“. His main fields of research include Iran in the pre-Islamic period; Old and Middle Iranian languages and literature.

Selected publications (only books are mentioned in the following): An 18th Century Account of Parsi History - The Qesse-ye Zartošti a n-e Hendust a n, IUO, Napoli 1991; The Zand i Wahman Yasn. A Sasanian Apocalypse, Serie Orientale, Roma 75, Roma 1995; La Letteratura Pahlavi. Introduzione ai testi con riferimenti alla storia degli studi e alla tradizione manoscritta, Milano 2001; (as editor:) D.N. MacKenzie, Iranica Diversa, 2 vols. (together with L. Paul) Rome 1999; (together with M. Maggi and E. Provasi) Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia. Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6th December 2002, Wiesbaden 2003.

CLAUS V. PEDERSEN

Secretary

from Copenhagen (Denmark). He is Associate Professor of Iranian Studies at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen. He holds a M.A. in Danish language and literature, and a B.A. in English. After graduating at the Department of Iranian Literature in 1994, he received his PhD degree in the field of Modern Persian Literature from the University of Copenhagen. Together with K. Eksell and W.E. Scharlipp he is the editor of the literary magazine Naqd – Tidsskrift for Mellemøstens litteratur. His main field of research is Modern Persian literature and language.

Selected publication<s: (together with F. Vahman) Persisk-dansk ordbog (Persian-Danish Dictionary), Copenhagen 1998; (author and editor:) Ørkenrosen (The Desert Rose; Collection of Danish translations of Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish and Persian short stories); World View in Pre-Revolutionary Iran. Literary Analysis of Five Iranian Authors in the Context of the History of Ideas, Wiesbaden 2002; “Writing Persian Literary History : a Critical Perspective.” in: Annali dell'Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale". 2007 ; vol. 64, Napoli: pp. 229-235 “San'atizade's Majma'-e Divanegan, "An Assembly of Lunatics", The Earlist Literary Utopia in Modern Persian Literature.” In: Folia Orientalia. 2008 ; vol. XLII-XLIII, Krakow: pp. 137-143

PIERFRANCESCO CALLIERI

Treasurer

ALMUT HINTZE

DIETER WEBER

living in a small town near of Göttingen, retired but still affiliated to the FU Berlin he has been working in several projects on Pahlavi papyri and parchments from Egypts as well as from Iran proper and published several books and articles on that matter. He received his PhD degree in Linguistics from the University of Göttingen on Die Stellung der sog. Inchoativa im Mitteliranischen in 1970. He taught mainly middle Iranian languages at Harvard (1969), at the Universities of Göttingen (1969-1999), Marburg (1997-2002), and Hamburg (2002). His major fields are Middle Iranian languages and Ossetic. He is preparing an edition of Pahlavi documents - Berliner Pahlavi-Dokumente. Zeugnisse spätsassanidischer Brief- und Rechtskultur aus frühislamischer Zeit (IRANICA), Wiesbaden.

Selected Bibliography (books only): Die Stellung der sog. Inchoativa im Mitteliranischen. Diss. Göttingen 1970. 363pp. - (Ed.) Corolla Iranica, Papers in honour of Prof. Dr. David Neil MacKenzie on the occasion of his 65th birthday on the eighth of April 1991. Ed. by Ronald E. Emmerick and Dieter Weber. Frankfurt am Main – Bern – New York – Paris: Lang, 1991. 244pp. - Pahlavi Papyri, Pergamente und Ostraca. (Textband.) London: Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, 1992. 265pp. 42 pl. 2 maps. - Iranian Manichaean Turfan texts in publications since 1934. London: Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, Supplementary Series Vol. IV, 2000. - (Ed.) Manichaica Iranica, Ausgewählte Schriften von Werner Sundermann, hrsg. von Christiane Reck, Dieter Weber und Claudia Leurini, Antonio Panaino. 2 Bde. (= Serie Orientale Roma LXXXIX, 1/2) Roma 2001. - Papyri, Pergamente und Leinenfragmente in mittelpersischer Sprache. Unter Mitarbeit von W. Brashear herausgegeben von Dieter Weber. Fotografien von Margarete Büsing und Eva Maria Borgwaldt. (Textband.) London: Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, 2003. - (Ed.) Languages of Iran: Past and Present. A Volume of Iranian Studies in memoriam David Neil MacKenzie, ed. by D. Weber. (IRANICA 8) Wiesbaden 2005. - Berliner Pahlavi-Dokumente. Zeugnisse spätsassanidischer Brief- und Rechtskultur aus frühislamischer Zeit. Mit Beiträgen von Myriam Krutzsch und Maria Macuch. (IRANICA 15) Wiesbaden 2008.<7p> A full bibliography as PDF is available from: htpp:://www.fu-berlin.de/iranistik

ALBERTO CANTERA

from Salamanca (Spain). He has studied Classical Philology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, and later took postgraduate courses in the nineties at both the „Seminar für vergleichende und indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft“ and the „Institut für Iranistik“ of the Freie Universität in Berlin (Germany). After finishing his PhD he worked as a teacher at the University of Salamanca as an expert on the languages and cultures of India and Iran, and two years as an investigator in a research project financed by the „Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft“ on the Avestan and Pahlavi versions of the Vid e wd a d at the „Institut für Iranistik“ of the Freie Universität in Berlin. Presently he is Assistant Professor at the University of Salamanca. His main fields of research include languages and culture of Ancient India and Iran; Iranian philology (Avesta and Pahlavi); Zoroastrianism and its reception in the Sasanian and post-Sasanian period.

Selected publication s:> „Phl. mansarspand/maraspand und die Entwicklung der Gruppe -thr im Pahlavi“, in: Indo-Iranian Journal 41, 1998, 351-369; „Die Stellung der Sprache der Pahlavi-Übersetzung des Avesta innerhalb des Mittelpersischen“, in: Studia Iranica 28, 1999, 173-204; „Urir. *h ùÌan-, germ. *swinÞa-: Die indogermanische Wurzel *suen-“, in: Indoarisch, Iranisch und die Indogermanistik, ed. B. Forssman, R. Plath, Wiesbaden 2000, 37-50; „Die indogermanischen Vorformen von av. #uruu- und verwandte Probleme“, in: Indogermanische Forschungen 106, 2001, 33-60; „‚Laryngeal accent shift’ y la cronología de la desaparición de las laringales en Indoiranio“, Actas del II Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, Madrid 2002, 16-26; „Recorrido por la Bibliografía sobre la Religión Zoroástrica desde 1975“, Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones 7, 2002, 195-241; Studien zur Pahlavi-übersetzung des Avesta, Harrassowitz, 2004

ANNA KRASNOWOLSKA

from Kraków (Poland). She studied at the Institute of Oriental Philology of the Uniwersytet Jagiellonski in Kraków, completed her PhD in 1983 and her habilitation in 1998. She was research scholar at the Ferdousi University in Mashhad in 1977-78. In 1994 she had another scholarship of the Swedish Institute for a research stay at the Uppsala University. She was director of the Institute of Oriental Philology of the Uniwersytet Jagiellonski in 1999-2002 and is head of its Department of Iranian Studies since 2000. She is also a member of the Oriental Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Association for the study on Persianate Societies as well as on the editorial board of Folia Orientalia. Her main fields of research are: Persian epics, Iranian folklore, Modern Persian literature, history of Iranian Studies in Poland.

Selected publications: „The Heroes of Iranian Epic Tale“, in Folia Orientalia XXIV, 1987, 173-89; Some Key Figures of Iranian Calendar Mythology, Cracow 1998; „Mytho-epic Patterns in Modern Persian Literature“, in Proceedings of the 3rd Eur. Conference of Iranian Studies II, Wiesbaden 1999, 91-99; „Iranian Ceremonial Songs of the Winter Cycle“, in AO Acad. Scient. Hung. 53, 2000; „Mythological Topography of Iranian Epics“, in Erzählter Raum in Literaturen der islamischen Welt, ed. Haag-Higuchi, Szyka, Wiesbaden 2001, 19-30; „Rediscovery of Nature in Iranian Post-revolutionary Literature“, in Iran: Questions et connaissances III, Paris 2003; „Introduction to Persian Epic Poems“, in Iranica Selecta. Studies in honour of W. Skalmowski, ed. v. Tongerloo, Turnhout, Belgium 2003, 121- 130.

MARIA SZUPPE

Maria Szuppe obtained her doctoral degree in Iranian studies-History from the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris) in 1991, with a Ph.D. dissertation on political and social history of Herat during the end of the Timurid and the beginning of the Safavid period (see list of publications, below). In 1992-1993, she was Visiting Scholar at the Oriental Faculty, University of Cambridge (UK) with a “Lavoisier” post-doctoral research grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1997-1998, she was Researcher (pensionnaire scientifique) and scientific secretary at the Institut Français d’Études sur l’Asie Centrale, Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Since 1993, she has been working as Research Fellow (chargée de recherche) at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), first with the “Mondes turc et iranien à l’époque moderne et contemporaine” research group at Strasbourg, and then – from 1999 onwards –, with the “Mondes iranien et indien” at Paris – Ivry s/Seine. Her main fields of research are late mediaeval and early modern history and culture of Iranian societies, especially during the Timurid, Safavid, and Uzbek periods, as well as the research and publication of written sources such as manuscripts, documents, inscriptions, etc. She is a co-founder, in 2004, of the Series Catalogorum devoted to the publication of catalogues of primary sources, and published by “Mondes iranien et indien” (CNRS, Paris) and Istituto per l’Oriente (Roma). She is also the editorial secretary of Studia Iranica (bi-annual academic periodical of Iranian studies published by the Association pour l’Avancement des Études Iraniennes and distributed by Peeters Press). [For a detailed CV, see http://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article189

Selected publications: a) Books: -Maria Szuppe, Entre Timourides, Uzbeks et Safavides: questions de l’histoire politique et sociale de Hérat dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle, Cahiers de Studia Iranica, 12, Paris: Peeters Press, 1992. -Bakhtyar Babajanov, Maria Szuppe, Les inscriptions persanes de Châr Bakr, nécropole familiale des khwâja Jûybârî près de Boukhara, Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum (Part IV, vol. XXXI) & Institut Français d’Études sur l’Asie Centrale, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 2002. -Maria Szuppe, Ashirbek Muminov, Catalogue des manuscrits orientaux du Musée régional de Qarshi (Ouzbékistan), Series Catalogorum, I, Istituto per l’Oriente « C. A. Nallino » & « Monde iranien » (CNRS), Roma: Istituto per l’Oriente, 2004. b) Edited volumes: -Maria Szuppe (ed.), L’héritage timouride: Iran – Asie centrale – Inde, XVe - XVIIIe siècles, Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, n° 3-4, IFÉAC – Édisud: Aix-en-Provence – Tachkent, 1997. -Ashirbek Muminov, Francis Richard, Maria Szuppe (eds.), Patrimoine manuscrit et vie intellectuelle de l’Asie centrale islamique, Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, n° 7, IFÉAC – Édisud: Aix-en-Provence – Tachkent, 1999. -Michele Bernardini, Masashi Haneda, Maria Szuppe (eds.), Études sur l’Iran médiéval et moderne offertes à Jean Calmard, special issue, Eurasian Studies, V/1-2 (June-December 2006). c) Articles: -Maria Szuppe, “La participation des femmes de la famille royale à l’exercice du pouvoir en Iran safavide au XVIe siècle”, Part I: Studia Iranica 23/2 (1994), pp. 211-258 ; Part II: Studia Iranica 24/1 (1995), pp. 61-122. -Maria Szuppe, “Palais et jardins – le complexe royal des premiers Safavides à Qazvin, milieu XVIe- début XVIIe siècle”, Res Orientales, VIII (1996), pp. 145-179. -Maria Szuppe, “The Female intellectual milieu in Timurid and post-Timurid Herât : Faxri Heravi’s biography of poetesses, Javâher al-‘ajâyeb”, in M. Bernardini (éd.), La civiltà timuride come phenomeno internationale, special issue Oriente Moderno, n.s. XV/2 (LXXVI), 1996, pp. 119-137. -Maria Szuppe, “The Jewels of Wonder – Learned Ladies and Princess Politicians in the Provinces of Early Safavid Iran”, in G.R.G. Hambly (ed.), Women in the Medieval Isla-mic World: Power, Patronage and Piety, The New Middle Ages, 6, St. Martin’s Press: New York 1998, pp. 325-347. -Maria Szuppe, “Lettrés, patrons, libraires. L’apport des recueils biographiques sur le rôle du livre en Asie centrale aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles”, in A. Muminov, F. Richard & M. Szuppe (eds.), Patrimoine manuscrit et vie intellectuelle de l’Asie centrale islami¬que, Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, n° 7, IFÉAC - Édisud: Tachkent - Aix-en-Provence, 1999, pp. 99-115. -Maria Szuppe, “Status, Knowledge and Politics: Women in Sixteenth Century Safavid Iran”, in L. Beck and G. Nashat (eds.), Women in Iran, vol. I: From the Rise of Islam to 1800, University of Illinois Press, 2003, pp. 140-169. -Maria Szuppe, “Circulation des lettrés et cercles littéraires: entre Asie centrale, Iran et Inde du nord (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)”, Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales, 59/5-6 (2004), pp. 997-1018.