A survey of the geographical and historical accounts of Muslim Sicily in the main corpus of Arabic historiography.
Analyzes the redeployment of classical motifs of the Arabic qasida in the poetry of old age of the Sicilian Arab poet Ibn Hamdis.
On the interpretation of the Avestan Gathas
Comparison of Avestan and Vedic terminology
Jewish-Iranian encounters in ancient times. The Iranian religious oral and written traditions The use of Gathic phraseolgy in the Videvdad (Vendidad) and the Achaemenid inscriptions. Scholarly discussions about pollution in the... more