Burzine Waghmar

SOAS University of London, Centre for Iranian Studies, Faculty Member

SOAS University of London, Library, Faculty Member

SOAS University of London, SOAS South Asia Institute, Faculty Member

Royal United Services Institute, International Security Studies Program, Inaugural India Visiting Fellow

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Inaugural India Visiting Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), UK
Sr. Fellow, USANAS Foundation, India
Fellow, European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), The Netherlands

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Bibliography of the works of the Scholar-Hermit Prof. Dr. Annemarie Schimmel from 1943 through 2003, ed. M. Suheyl Umar, 3rd rev. edn., Iqbal Academy 3. Lahore: Iqbal Academy, 2004. 103 pp.

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Annemarie Schimmel, The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture, rev. ed. Burzine K. Waghmar. London: Reaktion Books, 2004. 352 pp.

Translation by Corinne Attwood of Annemarie Schimmel, Im Reich der Gross Moguln: Geschichte, Kuns... more

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Articles and Chapters by Burzine Waghmar

India at 75: Iran-India Relations

FPRC Journal, vol. 51/3, 2022, Nov 12, 2022

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Settled rather than saddled Scythians. In Masters of the Steppe: the Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia, eds. Svetlana Pankova and St John Simpson. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020 [2021].

At the easternmost edge of the Iranic world, settled rather than saddled Scythians ran the kingdo... more At the easternmost edge of the Iranic world, settled rather than saddled Scythians ran the kingdom of Khotan as Iranian-speaking Buddhists who traded and tussled with their T’ang and Tibetan neighbours. Straddling the Sino-Tibetan and Irano-Indic oecumenes, these Saka dynasts of the southern ‘Silk Road’ were conquered and converted by the Turkification and Islamisation of the Tarim Basin. Their effect, both historical and artistic, merits consideration in Scythian studies for their own achievements. This survey is based on the existing corpora of administrative and religious texts in Khotanese, an amply documented Middle Iranian language, which enables the tracing of the trajectory of these Scythian legatees until the end of antiquity.

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Between Hind and Hellas: the Bactrian Bridgehead (with an Appendix on Indo-Hellenic Interactions). In Indo-Hellenic Cultural Transactions, ed. Radhika Seshan. Mumbai: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, 2020 [2021].

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Iridescent Iran: Persian Palimpsest, Mazdean Mosaic. In Threads of Continuity: Zoroastrian Life & Culture, ed. Shernaz Cama. New Delhi: Parzor Foundation, 2016.

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An Annotated Micro-history and Bibliography of the Houghton Shahnama. In Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 8-9 January, 2011, eds. Sunil Sharma and Burzine Waghmar. Mumbai: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, 2016.

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Firdawsi: a Scholium. In Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 8-9 January, 2011, eds. Sunil Sharma and Burzine Waghmar. Mumbai: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, 2016.

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Preliminary Remarks on Bactrian Diplomatics. In Ancient and Middle Iranian Studies: Proceedings of the of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Vienna, 18-22 September 2007, eds. Maria Macuch, Dieter Weber and Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Iranica 19. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010.

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Bactrian history and language: an overview. In Journal of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, 64 (2001).

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Gujarati. In Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie, eds. Concise Encyclopedia of the Languages of the World. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009.

Reprinted from Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd ed., vol. 5, ed. Keith Brown. Oxford:... more

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Islamic rule in Iran and Central Asia, 650-1000 CE. In ABC-CLIO World History Encyclopedia, Era 4: Expanding Regional Civilizations 300-1000, vol. 7, ed. Wilfred J. Bisson. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.

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A Note on Parsi Islamology. In Third International Congress Proceedings: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, ed. H. N. Modi. Bombay: Cama Oriental Institute, 2001.

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The Zoroastrian-Islamic rut: reflections on the scholarship of Zoroastrianism and Islam. In FEZANA, 23, 4 (Dec. 2009).

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Salmān Pāk: A Mōbed of Islam? In Ushta: Zoroastrian Studies, 19, 2 (1998).

Annemarie Schimmel and Indo-Pakistan Studies. In Remembering the Scholar-Hermit: Proceedings of the Annemarie Schimmel Commemorative Seminar, ed. Saeed Durrani. Iqbal Academy 26. Lahore: Iqbal Academy, 2005.

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Dinshah Dorabji Kapadia. In Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. XV, ed. Ehsan Yarshater. New York, 2010.

Jinnah’s Jews: a Jeremiad. In Studies on Israel, ed. Mahendra Gaur, CSS 5. New Delhi: Foreign Policy Research Centre, 2015.

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Complaisant Pakistanis, Condescending Persians: Orientalist Observations on Iran-Pakistan Relations. In Studies on Iran: Reports, Articles, ed. Sylvia Mishra, CSS 1. New Delhi: Foreign Policy Research Centre, 2013.

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Pakistan Studies: The State of the Craft. In Dawn [Books & Authors], 27 Feb. 2005, p. 5.

Bibliography of the works of the Scholar-Hermit Prof. Dr. Annemarie Schimmel from 1943 through 2003, ed. M. Suheyl Umar, 3rd rev. edn., Iqbal Academy 3. Lahore: Iqbal Academy, 2004. 103 pp.

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Annemarie Schimmel, The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture, rev. ed. Burzine K. Waghmar. London: Reaktion Books, 2004. 352 pp.

Translation by Corinne Attwood of Annemarie Schimmel, Im Reich der Gross Moguln: Geschichte, Kuns... more

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India at 75: Iran-India Relations

FPRC Journal, vol. 51/3, 2022, Nov 12, 2022

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Iridescent Iran: Persian Palimpsest, Mazdean Mosaic. In Threads of Continuity: Zoroastrian Life & Culture, ed. Shernaz Cama. New Delhi: Parzor Foundation, 2016.

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Bactrian history and language: an overview. In Journal of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, 64 (2001).

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Gujarati. In Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie, eds. Concise Encyclopedia of the Languages of the World. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009.

Reprinted from Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd ed., vol. 5, ed. Keith Brown. Oxford:... more

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A Note on Parsi Islamology. In Third International Congress Proceedings: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, ed. H. N. Modi. Bombay: Cama Oriental Institute, 2001.

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The Zoroastrian-Islamic rut: reflections on the scholarship of Zoroastrianism and Islam. In FEZANA, 23, 4 (Dec. 2009).

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Salmān Pāk: A Mōbed of Islam? In Ushta: Zoroastrian Studies, 19, 2 (1998).

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Dinshah Dorabji Kapadia. In Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. XV, ed. Ehsan Yarshater. New York, 2010.

Jinnah’s Jews: a Jeremiad. In Studies on Israel, ed. Mahendra Gaur, CSS 5. New Delhi: Foreign Policy Research Centre, 2015.

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Pakistan Studies: The State of the Craft. In Dawn [Books & Authors], 27 Feb. 2005, p. 5.

Elena Kuz’mina, The Origins of the Indo-Iranians, ed. J. P. Mallory (Leiden, 2007) and eadem, The Prehistory of the Silk Road, ed. Victor Mair (Philadelphia, 2008). In Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology, 3 (2008) [2009].

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Josef Wiesehöfer, Das Frühe Persien: Geschichte eines antiken Weltreichs (Munich, 1999) and Michael Witzel, Das Alte Indien (Munich, 2003). In Bulletin of the Asia Institute, n.s., 15 (2001) [2005].

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B. A. Litvinsky, ed. Vostochniĭ Turkestan v drevnosti i rannem srednevekov’e: Arkhitektura, Isskustvo, Kostyum (Moscow, 2000). In Bulletin of the Asia Institute, n.s., 15 (2001) [2005].

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Shaul Shaked, Le satrape de Bactriane et son gouverneur: Documents araméens du IVè s. avant notre ère provenant de Bactriane (Paris, 2004). In Bulletin of the Asia Institute, n.s., 17 (2003) [2007].

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Annemarie Schimmel, Morgenland und Abendland: Mein west-östliches Leben (Munich, 2002). In Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 15 (2005).

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Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle East Response (London and New York, 2001) and idem, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (London and New York, 2003). In Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32 (2003) [2004].

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Bernard Lewis, The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years (London and New York 1995, repr. 1997). In Archív Orientální, 67 (1999).

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Richard Hovannisian and Georges Sabagh, eds. The Persian Presence in the Islamic World. 13th Giorgio Levi Della Vida Conference, UCLA (Cambridge, 1998). In Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 63 (2004).

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A. D. H. Bivar, The Personalities of Mithra in Archaeology and Literature. Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series 1 (New York, 1998). In Circle of Inner Asian Art newsletter, 10 (1999) [2000].

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Nicholas Sims-Williams, ed. Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies (Pt. 1 Old and Middle Iranian Studies) (Wiesbaden, 1998). In Circle of Inner Asian Art newsletter, 8 (1998) [1999].

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Richard Frye, The Heritage of Central Asia: from Antiquity to the Turkish Expansion (Princeton 1996, repr. 1998). In Bulletin of the Asia Institute, n.s., 11 (1997) [2000].

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Richard Foltz, Spirituality in the Land of the Noble: How Iran Shaped the World's Religions (Oxford, 2004). In Iranian Studies, 38 (2005).

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Richard Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century (London and New York, 1999). In Circle of Inner Asian Art newsletter, 11 (2000).

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D. D. Kosambi, Combined Methods in Indology and Other Writings, comp., ed. and introd. B. Chattopadhyaya (New Delhi, 2002). In Circle of Inner Asian Art newsletter, 18 (2003).

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Tahir Jahangir, A Travel Companion to the Northern Areas of Pakistan (Karachi, 2004). In South Asia Research, 26 (2006).

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Ann (Nancy) K. S. Lambton, J. Enoch Powell, Sir E. Denison Ross and Ehsan Yarshater. In Academics Agents & Activists: A History of the School of Oriental and African Studies 1916-2016.

Images, loans and text panels contributed by Burzine Waghmar to the exhibition, Academics Agents ... more Images, loans and text panels contributed by Burzine Waghmar to the exhibition, Academics Agents & Activists: A History of the School of Oriental and African Studies 1916-2016, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, October 12-December 17, 2016. (n. b.: no official catalogue or publication for this exhibition.)

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The history of Bukhara; The execution of Mazdak from the Shahnameh; Muhammad and the celestial cockerel; and Doorway to Hell, the ordeal of the adulteresses. In The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination, ed. Sarah Stewart. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013.

Official publication accompanying the exhibition, The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in Histor... more

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Central Asia 500 BC-AD 600. In Atlas of World Art, ed. John Onians. London: Laurence King, 2004; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Co-authored with Ruth Young. Simultaneously published as ‘Zentralasien 500 v. Chr.-600 n. Chr.’ I... more

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Richard Nelson Frye (1920-2014). In Societas Iranologica Europaea. Online.

Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton [Nancy] (1912-2008). In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008, Supplementary Volume, ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Professor Ann Lambton. In The Independent, 1 Aug. 2008, p. 50.

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Professor Annemarie Schimmel (April 7, 1922 to January 26, 2003). In Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 13 (2003) [2004].

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Annemarie Schimmel. In The Guardian, 6 Feb. 2003, p. 24.

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Ilya Gershevitch (1914-2001). Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān: The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, 1, 2 (2001-02) [2002].

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Settled rather than saddled Scythians

Ilya Gershevitch (1914-2001)

Studia Iranica, 2002

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The Pahlavi Translation Technique as Illustrated by Hōm Yašt. By Judith Josephson. (Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 2). pp. 214. Uppsala, Acta Uni. Ups. 1997

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1999

Jinnah's Jews: a Jeremiad

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Matthew's Midrashic Magi

No feature of Zoroastrianism in the Levant is of greater signification than the passing albeit co... more No feature of Zoroastrianism in the Levant is of greater signification than the passing albeit contrived inclusion of the Magi in the Infancy Gospels. It is proposed here that their incorporation was deliberate and exceptional. For although the Iranian magoi were exaggerated or vilified in Greek and Judaic writings, they are exceptionally treated on two counts, namely, the prophecy of Balaam and gospel of Matthew, whose evangelist was adept with the midrashic method. The magi were artfully drawn into Matthew—essentially a reworking of Mark but for the infancy narrative—wherein the universalist kingship of Christ was elaborated and vindicated by their insertion. Diverse and contrary evidence from Patristics, the Synoptic narratives, Jewish and Classical sources do, however, permit one to sketch a suggestive outline. The astral apparition linked with the magi’s sojourn must be discussed in light of not just premonitory portents of a saviour as in the Sefer ha-Yashar but also royal sym...

Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography

Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation, May 4, 2018

Annemarie Schimmel

Annemarie Schimmel IV Works on Iqbal and Indo Muslim Studies

Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation, Apr 16, 2018

Between Hind and Hellas: the Bactrian Bridgehead (with an Appendix on Indo-Hellenic interactions)

Review of R. E. Emmerick and P. O. Skjærvø, eds. Studies in the Vocabulary of Khotanese III (Vienna, 1997)

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Tribute to Annemarie Schimmel

Bernard Lewis, The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years (New York: Scribner, 1995). Pp. 433

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1997

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Firdawsi: a Scholium

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Masters of the Steppe: The Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia

This book co-edited with Svetlana Pankova presents 45 papers offered for and/or presented at a ma... more This book co-edited with Svetlana Pankova presents 45 papers offered for and/or presented at a major international conference held at the British Museum as part of the public programme associated with the 2017 exhibition &#39;Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia&#39;. Papers include new archaeological discoveries, results of scientific research and studies of museum collections, most presented in English for the first time. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction explaining how the conference was devised alongside the exhibition and how the exhibition itself was created. The book ends with a long concluding essay exploring the ramifications of the papers and other research into Eurasian nomads, and is followed by a comprehensive subject index. A full list of contributors and their affiliations is also provided. All papers were peer-reviewed. Papers are embargoed for two years but we hope that you can find copies through your institutions and personal Eurasian networks. The title page and main list of contents are attached for reference.