Recent Trends in Late Antique Iranian Studies

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Recent Trends in Late Antique Iranian Studies. Panel I: Legal Structures of Iran in Late Antiquity. Chair: Parvaneh Pourshariati, The Ohio State University. Discussant: Said Arjomand, Stony Brook University. Maria Macuch, Free U Berlin, "The Clause on Property in the Pahlavi Marriage Contract" -- Yaakov Elman, Harvard University, "The Chronology of the Sasanian Lawbook and the Fall of the Empire" -- Haleh Emrani, UCLA, "Family Law in Religious Communities of Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Iran: An Indicator of Social Change and Continuity" -- Richard Payne, Princeton University, "Elite Families in Crisis: Fatherless and Sonless Households in the Seventh Century Iranian World".Recent Trends in Late Antique Iranian Studies. Panel II: Problematics in Chronological Demarcation of Late Antique Iran. Chair: Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, University of Minnesota, Duluth. Discussant: Elton L. Daniel, University of Hawaii, Manoa. Parvaneh Pourshariati, The Ohio State University, "A Revised Chronology of the Early Arab Conquests of Iraq and Its Implications" -- Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine, "Competing Rulers and Dynasts in Face of the Muslim Conquest: Periodizing the End of Sasanians" -- Ghazzal Dabiri, Columbia University, "Ninth Century Historians and the Shu‘ūbīyah Movement" -- Asef Kholdani, "A Long Duree Perspective of Iranian History: A Chronological Schema".Recent Trends in Late Antique Iranian Studies. Panel III: Sacred, and Martial Expressions of Iran in the Late Antique Period. Chair: Maria Macuch, Freie Universitaet Berlin. Discussant: Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, British Museum. Hossein Kamaly, Columbia University, "Whence Came the Aswārān?: Where Did They Disappear?" -- Joel Walker, University of Washington, "The Gentleman Wore Pearls: Pearled Vestments and Male Jewelry in the Sasanian and Early Islamic Middle East" -- Abolala Soudavar, Independent Scholar, "Mithraic Societies: A Lasting Structure for Iranian Brotherhoods" -- Matthew Canepa, Merton College, Oxford/College of Charleston, "Building a New Vision of the Past in the Late Sasanian Empire: The Creation and Experience of the Avestan".Recent Trends in Late Antique Iranian Studies. Part IV: Urban, Agriculture, and Administrative Processes and Transformations in Late Antique Iran. Chair: Ghazzal Dabiri, Columbia University. Discussant: Michael G. Morony, UCLA. Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University, "Cotton Farming and the Transition from a Sasanid to an Islamic Economy" -- Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, "Early Islamic Iraq and the Heritage of Late Sasanian Administrative Practice" -- Khodadad Rezakhani, UCLA, "Late Antique Economy of Iran: Empires, Microsystems, and Economic Boundaries, 500-800 CE".Four panels at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, Boston, November 20-24, 2009 organized by Parvaneh Pourshariati, The Ohio State University. The four panels were entitled "Recent Trends in Late Antique Iranian Studies." Each panel was dedicated to a specific theme: "Legal Structures of Iran in Late Antiquity", "Problematics in Chronological Demarcation of Late Antique Iran", "Sacred, and Martial Expressions of Iran in the Late Antique Period", and "Urban, Agriculture, and Administrative Processes and Transformations in Late Antique Iran".Association for the Study of Persianate Societie