Welcome to the Digital Toolbox for Iranian Studies and related fields, a weekly updated research repository that currently lists 830 digital resources.
The Hermes Media 3 Farsi typewriter, photograph from the private archive and by the courtesy of type designer/typographer & researcher Amir Mesbahi.
The toolbox aims at collecting all available digital resources that are relevant to Iranian Studies & related fields of study. It may help you to find:
- primary sources & academic literature
- manuscripts & objects in digital archives & collections
- historic maps, coinage, linguistic corpora
- academic publications & institutions
- podcasts, blogs & academic communities
- and useful apps for your research
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Latest toolbox entries
- The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads (a science blog of Freer & Sackler at the Smithsonian Institution that offers a wealth of information about the trade routes, art and material culture, ancient texts, religion and many more aspects of the Sogdians)
- GECMO – Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient (a research association focused on the historical Middle East. They also publish a journal and organize conferences, but their website and many links seem to be outdated or not well maintained)
- Russian Perspectives on Islam (a scholarly project at George Mason University that aims at documenting “the encounter and evolving relationship between the Orthodox/secular state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries”. The website builds an archive by gathering, digitizing, translating a growing number of primary sources and to make them available to the public)
- واژهباز / vājabāz – Musings on Persianate vocabulary (a very readable and enlightening blog about essential words and terms from the persianate world by Iskandar Ding)
- glottothèque: Ancient Indo-European Grammars Online (a project at the university of Göttingen has gathered experts to offer online course material on 12 Indo-European languages: Old Albanian, Classical Armenian, Avestan, Gothic, Ancient Greek, Hittite, Old Irish, Early Latin, Old Lithuanian, Old Church Slavonic, Tocharian, and Early Vedic)
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