Case Studies
Below is a selection of our recent research and travel grant recipients’ reports on their BIPS-funded fieldwork, workshops, conferences etc. All award-holders are required to submit a report, and some are invited to present their research at the annual Spring Roundtable (which is held March – May every year).
A full list of awards made in each financial year are available in our Annual Review

A critical edition of Shahin-I Shirazi’s Judeo-Persian masnavi Ardashir Nameh (1333)

Gold coins of the kings of Bactria: a programme of analysis of the metal composition of coins in the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Bahram Chobin’s Revolt: An Asset and Ally of East Rome in the Late Sixth Century?

Armenian or Safavid? A Reconsideration of the Architecture and Decoration of Vank Cathedral, Isfahan 1664/1074

Hormuz 1622: Connected Histories and Transcultural Receptions

Visiting the Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk in Kermanshah

Congress Report: International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, 5th – 9th July 2021

Grant Report: Bawa Yawan Rockshelter Excavations

Report to BIPS on the Project: “Egypto-Achaemenid quadrilingual stone vessels as factors in the socio-economic role of Egypt as a satrapy: the Louvre & Cabinet des Medailles fragments.”

Persian Dynamos: Literature in Motion

A Note Persian Miniature Painting: Materials and Techniques
