The Journal IRAN
IRAN is a refereed journal which is published annually and enjoys a high international reputation. Volume 46 was out in December 2008.
IRAN includes articles on the whole range of Persian Studies and not only on work sponsored by the Institute. There is also a section on recent archaeological excavations in Iran. As one of the foremost journals in the field, IRAN is sold and distributed to a wide range of libraries, institutions and individuals throughout the world.
Editors of IRAN are:
Professor CE Bosworth, Dr Cameron A. Petrie and Professor Vanessa Martin
Copies of IRAN can be purchased for £36 (incl. postage). Enquiries should be made and orders and contributions sent to the Secretary of BIPS.
Submission Guidelines for IRAN
The journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies
1. IRAN is a refereed journal published once a year, which presents articles on Persian arts, archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy and religion, and is the foremost international journal in its field. The journal has three joint-editors, Professor C.E. Bosworth Dr. C.A. Petrie and Professor V. Martin, and a board of editorial advisors comprised of international specialists in the relevant fields. The journal publishes articles that are of the highest academic standard across a diverse range of fields. When articles submitted for consideration, they are assessed by the editors, and are peer-reviewed by the editorial advisors and other scholars as appropriate, before being accepted for publication. Articles may be submitted in English, French or German.
2. To be considered for publication in any year, all manuscripts must be submitted by the last day of March of that year. Even if manuscripts are submitted by this date and accepted for publication, there can be no guarantee that space will be available for its publication in that year. Contributors are asked to submit manuscripts that are formatted according to the guidelines outlined below, and the joint-editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that are not formatted accordingly before they will be considered.
3. Manuscript Format.
All manuscripts should be submitted in Word .doc or .rtf format, preferably using a generic font such as Arial or Times New Roman. Hard copy manuscripts (see 6. below) should be double spaced throughout (i.e. including notes), printed on one side of A4 paper or its nearest North American equivalent, and in 12 point type. Authors should avoid the use of complex formatting for headings and subheadings, as these must ultimately be changed in the typesetting process. Articles may be submitted in English, French or German.
Authors should provide a title, and an English language 100-word abstract and list of 5 keywords in English. Papers should normally be a maximum of 8000-10000 words in length, including end notes, but not including a consolidated bibliography. If a manuscript is likely to be longer than this, there should be prior consultation with the editors. Archaeological Reports of up to 5000 and words and Shorter Notices will also be considered. When referring to dates, authors should use BC, AD or AH, not BCE and CE.
4. Heading styles.
Authors are requested to set out headings and sub-headings in the following manner:
Headings should be numbered using Roman numerals – I., II., III., etc.
Sub-headings should be numbered using a combination of Roman and Arabic numerals – I.1., I.2., II.1, II.2., etc.
5. Reference Styles.
References should be given as end notes, not as footnotes or text notes as in the Harvard system. References in the text should thus be indicated only by an Arabic numeral. The end notes should be numbered consecutively, and should appear after the main body of text. In the end notes, the author, date and page of the reference should appear, followed by additional comments where they are deemed necessary. A full list of all references used should appear in a consolidated bibliography (double-spaced) at the end of the text that includes all references cited. Bibliographic references should follow a format such as that shown below.
ArticlesStein, M.A. 1936. “An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis”, Iraq 3: 111-225.
BooksStein, M.A. 1940. Old Routes in Western Iran, Macmillan and Sons, London.
Papers in edited volumesSumner, W.M. 1999. “The Birds of Anshan”, in A. Alizadeh, Y. Majidzadeh and S.M. Sharmirzadeh (eds.), The Iranian World: Essays on Iranian Art and Archaeology Presented to Ezat O. Negahban, Iran University Press, Tehran: 85-100.
Authors should also use the periodical and book title abbreviations listed at the end of each issue of IRAN in the preparation of their bibliography.
6. Manuscript Submission.
Authors should submit one complete hard copy AND a complete digital copy on CD/DVD of their contribution, including illustrations. Manuscripts and disc should be sent to -
Secretary of BIPS
The British Academy
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London, SW1Y 5AH
7. Images
Printed size for images can be up to 218 x 165 mm.
Up to 20 figures may be included if they are warranted.
Maps, drafted drawings, and photographs can be submitted in either digital or hard copy.
For digital submissions, greyscale images should be provided in .tif format at 600 dpi, and line drawings should be bitmap images in .tif format at no less than 1200 dpi. Hard copy images that are submitted should be produced to these specifications. Original photos should be crisp. Complex figures should be submitted as the author would like them to appear in print and sized correctly. Illustrations that do not meet these requirements may not be considered for publication.
8. Information relating to colour imagesAuthors may wish to submit colour illustrations with their papers. However, for colour illustrations to appear in the final issue, authors will be required to pay a subvention to cover the additional printing costs. There are two scales of costs - one price for printing between 1 and 8 colour images, and another for printing between 9 and 16 colour images.
For between 1 and 8 colour images, the cost is £360.00
For between 9 and 16 colour images, the cost is £500.00
9. Authors will receive 25 offprints free, and will be provided with a .pdf copy of the printed paper.
Volume 43
Further on the calender of Zoroastrian feasts
By Mary Boyce
Fars Archaeological Project 2004: excavation at Tal-e Malyan
By John R. Alden, Kamyar Abdi, Ahmed Azadi, Gary Beckman and Holly Pittman
From Anshan to Dilmun and Magan: the spatial and temporal distribution of Kaftari and Kaftari-related ceramic vessels
By Cameron Petrie, Alireza Asgari Chaverdi and Mojgan Seyedin
Sistan and Baluchistan Project
By S.M.S Sajjadi
The Production, distribution and function of Iron Age bridge-spouted vessels in Iran and Arabia: results from recent excavations and geochemical analysis,
By Peter Magee
Dancing Diamonds
By Yosef Garfinkel
The account of the Samanid Dynasty in Ibn Zafir al-Azdi's Akhbar al-duwal al-munqati'a,
By Luke Treadwell
Odes of a poet-princess : the ghazals of Jahan-Malik Khatun,
By Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
The tomb complex of Abu Sa'id Fadl Allah b. Abi 'l-Khair at Mihna
By Leonard Harrow
Aspects of frescoes in fourteen-centuaryIranian architecture: the case of Yazd, By Yuka Kadoi
A memoir of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph D'Arcy, R. A. 1780-1848,
By Alan H. Barrett
Ninteenth-century Iranian Jewry: statistics, geographical setting and economic basis
By Daniel Tsadik
A catalouge of the Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the Arts and Social Sciences Library of The University of Bristol
By Susan Asili
Shah Isma'il II's copy of the Shah-Nama: additional material
By B. W. Robinson
Volume 42
Location, Location, Location: A Pilot Survey of the Tehran Plain 2003,
Cheshmeh-Ali Revisited: Towards an Absolute Dating of the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Iran's Tehran Plain,
By H. Fazeli, R.A.E. Coningham and C.M. Batt
Kushk-e Hezar: A Mushki/Jari Period Site in the Kur River Basin, Fars, Iran,
By John R. Alden, Kamyar Abdi, Ahmed Azadi, Fereidoun Biglari and Saman Heydari
A New Look at the Prehistoric Metallurgy of Southeastern Iran,
By C.P. Thornton and C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
Copper and Complexity: Iran and Mesopotamia in the Fourth Millennium B.C.,
By Roger Matthews and Hassan Fazeli
The Banesh-Kaftari Interface, The View from Operation H5, Malyan,
By Naomi F. Miller and Willim M. Sumner
Cyrus and the Achaemenids,
By Matt Waters
The Lan Ceremony and Other Ritual Ceremonies in the Achaemenid Period: The Persepolis Fortification Tablets,
By Shahrokh Razmjou
Farghana under the Samanids (According to the Data of Numismatics),
By Michael Fedorov
The Mongols in Iran: A reappraisal
By David Morgan
The Masjid-i Malik in Kirman,
By Alireza Anisi
Bayazid, Beg Turkman's Pilgrimage to Makka and Return to Gujarat: A Sixteenth Centurey Narrative
By Simon Digby
Borazjan, A Rural Market Town in Bushire's Hinterland,
By Willem Floor
A Persian Sufi in British India: The Travels of Mirza Hasan Safi Ali Shah (1251/1835-1361/1899),
By Nile Green
Ahmad Kasravi's Criticisms of Edward Granville Browne,
By Lloyd Ridgeon
Centenary Bibliography of Basil Gray,
By Edmund Gray
Archaeological Reports
Volume 41
Obituary: Ronald Whitaker Ferrier 1929-2003,
By C. Edmund Bosworth
The Banesh-Kaftari Interface. The View from Operation H5, Malyan,
By Naomi F. Miller and William M. Sumner
Excavations at Shahr-i Sokhta. First Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the Graveyard 1997-2000,
By S.M.S. Sajjadi with contributions, by F. Foruzanfar, R. Shirazi and S. Baghestani
Archaeological Research in the Mianab Plain of Lowland Susiana, South-Western Iran,
By Abbas Moghaddam and Negin Miri
The Ancient Merv Project, Turkmenistan. Preliminary Report on the Second Season (2002),
By Tim Williams, Kakamurad Kurbansakhatov, et al.
Parthian Calendars at Babylon and Seleucia on the Tigris,
By G.R.F. Assar
The Effect of the Arab Muslim Conquest on the Administrative Division of Sasanian Persis / Fars,
By Touraj Daryaee
Excavations at Kuva (Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan),
By Gennadi Ivanov
The Iranian Component of the Nusayri Religion,
By Meir Michael Bar-Asher
Sufism and Isma‘ili Doctrine in the Persian Poetry of Nizari Quhistani (645-721/1247-1321),
By Leonard Lewisohn
The Safavid Ceramic Industry at Kirman
By Lisa Golombek
Petrography of Pottery from Kirman,
By Robert B. Mason
Book Translations as a Cultural Activity in Iran 1806-1896,
By Iraj Afshar
France and the Anglo-Russian Accords: The Discreet Missing Link,
By Mariam Habibi
Leon Tigranovich Gyuzalian, on the Centenary of his Birth (15 March 1900),
By A.T. Adamova
The Development of Women’s Football in Iran. A Perspective on the Future for Women’s Sport in the Islamic Republic,
By Jenny Steel and Sophie Richter-Devroe
Archaeological Reports:
Some Remarks on a Preliminary Survey in Eastern Fars, Darabgird,
By Peter Morgan
Fars Archaeology Project 2003: Excavations at Toll-e Bashi,
By Kamyar Abdi, Susan Pollock, and Reinhard Bernbeck
The Williamson Collection Project: Sasanian and Islamic Survey Ceramics from Southern Iran, Current Research and Future Objectives, By Seth M.N. Priestman
Volume 40
Stone Tool Production, Distribution and Use during the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic on the Tehran Plain, Iran,
By H. Fazeli, R.E. Donahue and R. A.E. Coningham
The Ancient Merv Project, Turkmenistan. Preliminary Report on the First Season (2001),
By Tim Williams, Kakamurad Kurbansakhatov, et al.
Tuwah Khoshkeh: A Middle Chalcolithic Mobile Pastoralist Camp-Site in the Islamabad Plain, West Central Zagros Mountains, Iran,
By Kamyar Abdi, Gabriel Nikandeh, Ali Azadi, Fereydoun Biglari, Saman Heydari, Dariush Farmani, Akbar Rezaii and Marjan Mashkour
The Fortification and Palace of Northern Gonur,
By V. Sarianidi
The Ethno-linguistic Character of Northwestern Iran and Kurdistan in the Neo-Assyrian Period,
By Ran Zadok
Sasanian Pottery in Southern Iran and Eastern Arabia,
By Derek Kennet
Paper and Metal: The Irony that Ensues: the Coinage of Mas‘ud of Ghazna (421-31/1030-40),
By Soheila Amirsoleimani
A Note on a Unique Islamic Golden Figurine,
By Avinoam Shalem
Reconsidering the Life of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (d. 1641): Notes towards an Intellectual Biography,
By Sajjad H. Rizvi
Legations and Gardens and their Subalterns,
By John Gurney
The Poet-Laureate Bahar in the Constitutional Era,
By Homa Katouzian
The Early Iranian Stone “Weights” and an Unpublished Sumerian Foundation Deposit,
By Julian Reade
Safavid Blue and White Bowls and the Chinese Connection,
By Yolande Crowe
Shorter Notices
The Williamson Collection Project: Sasanian and Islamic Pottery from Southern Iran,
By Seth M.N. Priestman and Derek Kennet
Again about Appanage Rulers of Nasrabad,
By Michael Fedorov
The second Helmeted Head from Old Nisa,
By V.N. Pilipko
Recent Post-Achaemenid Finds from Southern Fars, Iran,
By Ali-Reza Asgari Chaverdi
Pasargadae,
By Rémy Boucharlat and Christophe Benech
Volume 39
The International Merv Project. Preliminary Report on the Ninth Year (2000)
by Georgina Herrmann, K. Kurbansakhatov, St. Simpson, et al.
Mausolea at Merv and Dahistan
by David Gye and Robert Hillenbrand
Chemical Characterisation of Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Pottery from the Tehran Plain, Iran
by H. Fazeli, R.A.E. Coningham and A.M. Pollard
Malyan 1999
by Kamyar Abdi
Inscribed Column Bases from Hamadan
by Peter Knapton, M.R. Sarraf and John Curtis
Five Seasons of Excavations in the Tash-K'irman Oasis of Ancient Chorasmia, 1996-2000. An Interim Report
by S.W. Helms, V.N. Yagodin, A.V.G. Betts, G. Khozhaniyazov and F. Kidd
A Group of Reused Byzantine Tables as Evidence for Seljuq Architectural Patronage in Damascus
by Finbarr B. Flood
Ghaznavid and GhÅ«ürid Minarets
by Ralph Pinder-Wilson
The Sarrafan Baths in Bukhara
by Galina Asanova and Martin Dow
Safavid Potters' Marks and the Question of Provenance
by Lisa Golombek, Robert B. Mason and Patty Proctor
Sufis and Competing Movements in Nishapur
by Christopher Melchert
Occult Science and the Fall of the Khwarazm-Shah Jalal al-Din
by Isabel Miller
The Chapar-Khana System in Qajar Iran
by Willem Floor
Burials and Memorials in Persia: Further Notes and Photographs
by Sir Denis Wright
Shorter Notices:
Islamabad Project 2000
by Kamyar Abdi
On the Exact Date of Yesün Temür's Accession to the Throne, according to Numismatic Data
by Michael Fedorov
Two Objects in the National Museum of Iran
by Zohreh Ruhfar
Volume 38
The International Merv Project. Preliminary Report on the Eighth Season (1999)
by Georgina Herrmann, K Kurbansakhatov, St John Simpson et al.
Kirman, terre de turbulence
par Malek Iradj Mochiri
The Persepolis Sculptures in the British Museum
by Terence Mitchell
The Khazineh Painted Styles of Western Iran
by Yosef Garfinkel
The Kwarazmshahs of the Banu Iraq (Fourth/Tenth Century)
by Michael Fedorov
Decoding the Two-Dimensional Pattern found at Takht-i Sulaiman into Three-Dimensional Muqarnas Forms
by Muhammad Ali Yaghan
Scholarship and a Controversial Group of Safavid Carpets
by Murray L. Eiland III
Prince Abd ul-Husayn Mirza Farman-Farma
by Denis Wright
The Survival of Zoroastrianism in Yazd
by Nile Green
New Perspectives on the Chronology and Functional Horizons of Kuh-e Khwaja in Sistan
by Sorour Ghanimati
Islamic Modernity and the Desiring Self: Mohammad Iqbal and the Poetics of Narcissism
by Yaseen Noorani
Shorter Notes:
Tepe Islamabad
by Kamyar Abdi
Excavation at Susa
by Mir-Abedin Kaboli
Volume 37
The International Merv Project. Preliminary Report on the Seventh Season (1998)
by Georgina Herrmann, Kakamurad Kurbansakhatov, St John Simpson et al.
Grog, Petrology and Early Transcaucasians at Godin Tepe
By Robert B. Mason and Lisa Cooper
Archaeological Research in the Islamabad Plain, Central Western Zagros Mountains: Preliminary Results from the First Season, Summer 1998
by Kamyar Abdi
Game Boards and Other Incised Graffiti at Persepolis
by John Curtis and Irving Finkel
Between the Safavids and the Mughals: Art and Artists in Transition
by Abolala Soudavar
The Bandar Abbas-Isfahan Route in the Late Safavid era
by Willem Floor
Sufism and Anti-Sufism in Safavid Iran: The Authorship of the Hadiqat al-Shi'a Revisited
by Andrew J. Newman
Napoleon and Persia
by Iradj Amini
Religious Dissidence and Urban Leadership: Baha'is in Qajar Shiraz and Tehran
by Juan R. I. Cole
From Revolutionary Tasnif to Patriotic Surud: Music and Nation-building in Pre-World War II Iran
by H. E. Chehabi
The Revolt of Shaykh Muhammad Khiyabani
by Homa Katouzian
Burials and Memorials of the British in Persia: FurtherNotes and Photographs
by Denis Wright
Volume 36
Seals and Signs. Anatolian Stamp Seals of the Persian Period Revisited
by John Boardman
Pre- and Early-Roman Roads of Asia Minor. The Persian Road
by David French
A Chariot Scene from Persepolis
by John Curtis
The International Merv Project. Preliminary Report on the Sixth Season (1997)
by Georgina Herrmann, K. Kurbansakhatov, St John Simpson et al.
Une suite aux Ateliers de Perside
by M. I. Mochiri
The Marv Hoard of Early Islamic Dirhams
by Tirkish Khodzhaniyazov and Luke Treadwell
The Merger of Two Currency zones in Early Islam. The Byzantine and Sasanian Impact on the Circulation in Former Byzantine Syria and Northern Mesopotamia
by Stefan Heidemann
A Sufi Perspective of Evil
by Lloyd Ridgeon
War and Reconstruction. The Condition of Historical Buildings and Monuments in Herat, Afghanistan
by Oliver Tirard-Collet
"Before the Babas came to India" A Reconstruction of the Earlier Lives of Baba Sa'id Palangposh and Baba Muhammad Musafir in "Wilayat"
by Simon Digby
Burials and Memorials of the British in Persia
by Sir Denis Wright
Writing the History of Modern Iran: a Comment on Approaches and Sources
by Stephanie Cronin
The Chapar-KhÄna System in Qajar Iran
by Willem Floor
Archaeological News from Iran
by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and St John Simpson