Grant Reports
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.

Textual History of the Shāhnāma in Fourteenth-Century Shiraz

Documenting the disappearing archaeological heritage of Seeb (Muscat, Oman)

The Iconography of War and Violence in Persia and the Near East

Persianate legacies in post-Soviet Central Asia and on contemporary Iran-Uzbekistan relations

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

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

Visiting the Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk in Kermanshah

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

Egypto-Achaemenid quadrilingual stone vessels as factors in the socio-economic role of Egypt as a satrapy: the Louvre & Cabinet des Medailles fragments

Investigating Human-Environmental Interactions in the Zagros Region (Southwest Asia) during the Late Glacial and Early to Mid-Holocene Periods
