Research Paper
About Heroes’ Gīsvari (Having Curly Hair) and Obstinacy 
(An Appendix to Georges Dumézil’s Theory about Warriors’ Function)
About Heroes’ Gīsvari (Having Curly Hair) and Obstinacy (An Appendix to Georges Dumézil’s Theory about Warriors’ Function)

Alireza Esmaeilpour

Volume 4, Issue 1 , August 2014, Pages 1-15

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2014.52665

Abstract
  Having curly hair (Persian: gīsvari) is one of the obscure and rare concepts in the epics and heroic stories but various texts and particularly some of the non-Iranian sources pertaining ...  Read More
Research Paper
The  Seven  Families  of  Achaemenid  Period  as  Reflected  in Textual  and  Archaeological  Evidence: The  Case  Gobryas
The Seven Families of Achaemenid Period as Reflected in Textual and Archaeological Evidence: The Case Gobryas

Bahman Firuzmandi; Ali Bahadori

Volume 4, Issue 1 , August 2014, Pages 17-36

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2014.52666

Abstract
  It  is  the  tribal  structure  of  society  and  power  with  which  one  can  explain  many  developments  ...  Read More
Research Paper
Verbal Suffixes in Laki: Ergative Structure, Subject Agreement or Dependant Pronoun?
Verbal Suffixes in Laki: Ergative Structure, Subject Agreement or Dependant Pronoun?

Shojaʽ Tafakkori Rezayi; Abbas Omidi

Volume 4, Issue 1 , August 2014, Pages 37-55

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2014.52667

Abstract
  This study explores the person/number suffixes in Laki in a descriptive-analytic method. Having a broad distribution, these suffixes can attach to subject and object NPs, prepositions, ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Siting of Jay and Yahudiya Cities in the Rostāq-i Jay of Isfahan and the Change in the Seat of Power until the Rise of Seljuks
The Siting of Jay and Yahudiya Cities in the Rostāq-i Jay of Isfahan and the Change in the Seat of Power until the Rise of Seljuks

Ali Shojaee Esfahani

Volume 4, Issue 1 , August 2014, Pages 57-76

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2014.52668

Abstract
  The cities of Jay in pre-Islamic and Yahudiya in the post Islamic period were located in a plain delimited from three sides by surrounding heights. This area, referred to in historical ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Role of Buddhists in the Ilkhanid Rule
The Role of Buddhists in the Ilkhanid Rule

Kourosh Salehi; Mohsen Morsalpour; Fatemeh Koukabadi

Volume 4, Issue 1 , August 2014, Pages 77-92

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2014.52670

Abstract
  Formation of the Ilkhanid rule and conversion of Hulagu to Buddhism Let Buddhists to participate in Ilkhanid rule. Buddhists hadnot any role in Iranian politics before, and this was ...  Read More
Research Paper
Malekan Family  of Tabriz
Malekan Family of Tabriz

Ahmad Goli; Behrooz Imani

Volume 4, Issue 1 , August 2014, Pages 93-106

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2014.52673

Abstract
  One of the rich families of Azerbaijan during Mongol and Ilkhanid period was “Jamā‘at-e Malekān” of Tabriz. The persons of this family had rulership in Tabriz and ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Study on the Seleucid Bullae Based on the Analyzing Seal Impressions
A Study on the Seleucid Bullae Based on the Analyzing Seal Impressions

Kamal Aldin Niknami; Reza Ghasemi

Volume 4, Issue 1 , August 2014, Pages 107-121

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2014.52675

Abstract
  The Seleucid Seals and bullae play a significant role in understanding the administration and social structures of this period. Due to the limitations in the Seleucids sigillographic ...  Read More