Department of History and Cultural Studies

The courses of Prof. Cantera are cancelled from 2 to 6 June

Jun 03, 2025

Prof. Khanna Omarkhali Receives the 2025 Jemal Nebez Award

Prof. Khanna Omarkhali, has been honored with the 2025 Jemal Nebez Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to Kurdish studies, particularly in the field of Yezidi studies.

Apr 08, 2025

Stellenausschreibung: Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (Persisch)

Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (m/w/d); Vollzeitbeschäftigung unbefristet Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L FU; Bewerbungsende 02.12.2024 Details unter https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/wiss/13_fb-geschichts-und-kulturwissenschaften/GK-Iranistik_Lehrkraft_Persisch_2025.html

Nov 04, 2024

Stellenausschreibung: 2 Positionen Stud. Beschäftigte*r

2 Positionen Stud. Beschäftigte*r (m/w/d) 41 MoStd. befristet auf 2 Jahre Bewerbungsende: 25.11.2024 Details unter https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/stud/13_fb-geschichts-und-kulturwissenschaften/GK-Iranistik-SHK-CAB-III_2-2024.html

Nov 04, 2024

Stellenausschreibung: Stud. Beschäftigte*r

Stud. Beschäftigte*r (m/w/d) 60 MoStd. befristet bis 31.07.2025 für die Dauer des Mutterschutzes mit ggf. sich anschließender Elternzeit Bewerbungsende: 25.11.2024 Details unter https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/stud/13_fb-geschichts-und-kulturwissenschaften/GK-Iranistik-SHK-CAB-III_1-2024.html

Nov 04, 2024

New publication: Deciphering the Illegible. Festschrift in Honour of Dieter Weber (Iranica 33)

It is with great pleasure that the authors and editors of this collection of essays present this volume to Dieter Weber as a token of our appreciation and gratitude for the many scholarly contributions with which he has enhanced our field of studies. As one of the very few colleagues who have endeavoured to disentangle the extremely ambiguous Pahlavi cursive script he has indeed dedicated a large part of his scholarly work to “deciphering the illegible”, hereby providing access to some of the most significant original documents of the late Sasanian and early Islamic era. ... (from the Preface to the volume)

Oct 23, 2024

Postponement of course 14181, Benedikt Peschl: "Introduction to the Literatures of Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Iran"

Oct 02, 2024

New series "Non-Mainstream Religion in the Middle East"

Aug 28, 2024

The Manual for Teaching and Learning Young Avestan (by Dr. Alberto Cantera and Dr. Céline Redard) is now avaiable in English

Dec 11, 2023

Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera became the new president of Societas Iranologica Europaea (S.I.E.)

Sep 06, 2023