Sociedad Española de Iranologia – SEI
La iranología: cinco mil años tendiendo puentes entre oriente y occidente
March 2025 The Safavid Shah Abbas and the Kurds of the Eastern Frontier Marc Morató-Aragonés Abstract: In this article, we will examine how the rulers of the Safavid Empire (1500–1736) related to the ruling Kurdish clans and how, despite their religious and social differences, they utilized them in the eastern provinces of the empire, which were then threatened by the
Read moreFebruary 2023 Guillermo Martínez Rabadán Abstract Since the Islamic conquest of Iran persistent elements of Zoroastrian Iran have proved controversial for Islamic dogmas imposed by different dynasties until the eighteenth century. The Qayar regime and under the Pahlavi regime, a policy of secularization that promoted the Zoroastrian heritage tried to awake Islam. This policy would later be persecuted by the
Read moremay 2022 The rise of Persia and the conquests of Cyrus cannot be explained by strokes of fortune or fate, nor can they be explained simply by a one-sided insistence on the decline of the states conquered by Cyrus or by the convenient assumption of the intrinsic superiority of Cyrus nomadic peoples over sedentary ones. Victories of such magnitude,
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The Parthian empire: origins and strengthening MARCOS UYÁ ESTEBAN (april 2022) Abstract Speaking of the origins of the Parthian Empire is speaking of one of the most unknown periods in the history of Persia. This darkness arises from the scarcity of literary sources that have come down to us, presenting themselves in a fragmentary way and derived from Greek and
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Zoroastrianism and Christianity in Sassanid Persia MARCOS UYÁ ESTEBAN Often one of the backbones of any civilization is religion, which sometimes plays a crucial role in the shaping and development of the state. In the case at hand, the Sassanid Empire, this axiom will be effectively fulfilled, since from the first moment of its creation, religion and State will go
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Text by Joaquín Velázquez Muñoz Article published in Revista Arqueología 2011, Año nº 32 Nº 359 The Achaemenid royal road was also projected in the northernmost regions of the Persian empire, that is, in Margina, Khorasmia, Bactria and Sogdiana. From Herat, in the Aryan satrapy, the road headed north to the oasis of Merv, from where, after crossing the desert,
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Joaquín Velázquez Muñoz. Article published in Revista Arqueología 2010, Year nº 31 Nº 356 The Achaemenid royal road that linked Susa to Ecbatana avoided the central Zagros (Lüristan) because the direct route through the land of the Cosseans was “bad, narrow and steep” (Diodorus, XIX, 19.2). In addition, it must be added that those mountain people demanded the payment of
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Alfred Gutiérrez-Kavanagh – Professor of RRII (Oriente Medio), UPC – Madrid Summary: Coinciding with our seventh Iranology congress, I have considered that it would be an appropriate forum to reflect on the concept of “seven” in the cultures of the Middle East, not so much from a merely numerological or symbolic perspective, but more rooted in the Archaeology of knowledge that
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