The Multimedia Yasna (MUYA) Examining the performance and written transmission of the core ritual of the Zoroastrian tradition, the Yasna.
Nafiseh Ansari Nafiseh Ansari is a PhD researcher in the Department of History, Religions and Philosophies, working on a critical edition and interdisciplinary study of the Middle Persian text Draxt ī Asūrīg. Her research interests include Pahlavi literature, Zoroastrianism, the visual culture of ancient Iran, and the philosophy of history particularly questions about how meaning, memory, and identity are constructed through historical texts.
SOAS receives first ERC Proof of Concept grant for the Multimedia Yasna International Image Interoperability Framework None
Dr Yousef Moradi Dr Yousef Moradi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher in the Department of Religions and Philosophies, holding a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017).
Towards a scientific annotation service by subscription This project proposes to lay the foundation for commercialising an annotation tool developed in Hintze’s MUYA-IIIF Proof of Concept project, using the vehicle of a new digital repository for previously unpublished sources held at the Royal Asiatic Society in London.
Avestan Ritual in India Avestan Ritual in India (AVINDIA) is a 5-year project will film the performance of a Visperad ceremony in India and will seek to detect, describe, visualise and analyse how the ritual is structured as systematically organised activity, and to reconstruct its genesis and historical trajectory.
The multimedia Yasna This project produced state-of-the art editions of the core ritual texts of the Zoroastrian religion and an interactive film of a performance of the ritual.
Seals and sealing practices in Sasanian Iran: New evidence from Taxt-e Solaymān Dr Yousef Moradi created a catalogue of bullae he excavated at Taxt-e Sulaymān in Iran.