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- Religious, Land, and Head Taxes in the Middle Persian Documents from Early Islamic Iran by Tommy Benfey
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- "No One Can Give You Protection". The Reversal of Protection in a Persian Decree Dated 562/1167.
- The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, Hugh Kennedy (2022)
- Pejman Firoozbakhsh, Persian Settlement Contract from 473/1080 (2022)
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- Slaves in Khotan and Khotanese: Dunhuang and Silk Road Seminar Series
- Zhan Zhang's Talk on: Slave purchase contracts in Tocharian, Khotanese and beyond
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- Arash Zeini is awarded the 2022 AIS book prize
- The History of the Armenian Community of Afghanistan
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- A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World (622-1250 CE)
- A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World (622-1250 CE), from Ferghana to the Fayyum
- Law of the Land: Legal Documents from the Eastern Islamicate World
- Injustice, Corruption, and Partisanship in the Eastern Seljuq Lands of the Early Twelfth Century
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- Arezou Azad in conversation with Theodora Zampaki
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- Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents
- Shamim Homayun
- Arezou Azad is the new President of the Middle East Medievalists
- The Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan
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- MOOC: Afghanistan - From Buddhism to Islam
- Presence and Silence: The Iran Archives in the German Foreign Office
- The Village and the Archive: On Documents in Iranian Languages (11th-13th century)
- Format, Style and Politeness Strategies in Middle Persian Official Letters from 7th-Century Egypt
- Michael Allaway
- War Criminals I have known
- From Bactrian to Arabic: Changes in Seals and Sealing Practices as Observed in the Documents from Bactria
- Invisible East at IMC Leeds 2023
- Jews in old Ghor and Bamiyan (in Persian): Part 1
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- The Conceptualization of Religion and Incipient Secularity in Late Sasanian Iran (Thomas Benfey)
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- The Archival Remnants of Art; or, an Intimate Lunch with Abu Turab Ghaffari
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- The Dynamics of Human Occupation in Khorasan during the 1st millennium CE
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- Les Cahiers de Bamiyan: Lire et interpréter les documents persans de l’Afghanistan médiéval
- Eloise Stevens
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- Happy Nowruz 2024
- Ed Shawe-Taylor awarded Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize
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- Thinking about Caravans Talk by Richard Bulliet
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- Mateen Arghandehpour
- William Dalrymple, "The Barmakids - A Bridge between Islamic and Indic Worlds"
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- Nadia Vidro
- Stories to Connect: Stories and History in the Islamicate World
- Document of the Month 11/24: A Hidden Threat
- The Long Road to Kabul: Reflections on the Making of the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan
- On writing a new childrens' book on the BarmaKIDS (part 1): "The Real Jafar"
- Arezou Azad, Interpreting Economies in Khurasan in the 11th–13th Century CE through Documentary Sources (2024)
- On writing a new childrens' book on the Barmakid Jafar (part 2): Hero or Villain?
- Thomas Benfey, Windādag's Orders: Ten Unpublished Middle Persian Ostraca from Chāl Ṭarkhān-ʿEshqābād (2024)
- Pejman Firoozbakhsh, Manuscript of a Persian Qaṣīda from about the Year 400/1007 (2024)
- Hayley Smith
- Fīrūzkūh Papers: Pre-Mongol Persian Documents from Today’s Afghanistan
- How to Explore the Invisible East Digital Corpus (IEDC)
- Association for Iranian Studies Fourteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference
- Document of the Month 12/24: A Lost Arabic Papyrus
- Emma Lennox
- Document of the Month 1/25: An Early Calligraphic Signature
- Leeds International Medieval Congress 2025
- The Islamicate East series welcomes new editor
- Thomas Benfey, Middle Persian Documents and the Making of the Islamic Fiscal System: Problems and Prospects
- Document of the Month 2/25: A Land Sale Deed in Old Uyghur
- The Yarkand Documents: From a Garden to a Digital Corpus
- Tenth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
- Document of the Month 3/25: A Female Farmer with a Strong Voice
- Nowruz in Balkh and Bamiyan
- 'A Night with Buddha' event
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- 6th Congress of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
- Document of the Month 4/25: A Judeo-Arabic Bible Commentary