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.

Rome and Sasanian Iran: Two Conferences and a Workshop

Decline of Iran in the Writings of Contemporary Iranian Intellectuals

The game of kings at the Ghaznavid court: an examination of the Shatranj-nama MSS held at the Biruni Institute, Tashkent

Displaying Empire: Imperial Approaches to Power and Identity in Persia and the Near East

Rural life in a changing world: new light on economic development and inequality in Central Asia under the Kushan Empire

The Hasanlu Ivories viewed through a New Materialist lens

International Medieval Congress: Roman and Sasanian Networks and Entanglements

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)
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