قصیده‌ای فارسی در مدح یکی از متموّلان یهودی بامیان از سالهای اولیۀ قرن پنجم

An Arabic historical fragment reveals 10th century events 

Nabi Saqee writes on the Fīrūzkūh Papers: Pre-Mongol Persian Documents from Today's Afghanistan

Narges Nematollahi looks at the format and linguistic style of Middle Persian documentary letters exchanged between Sassanid state officials in Egypt

Background to our recent conference

Arash Zeini discusses the panegyric poem dedicated to Siman-Tov ben Abī Nasr ben Dāniyāl

مقدمه‌ای بر مطالعات مجموعه‌های اسناد فارسی

Read the new blog by Nabi Saqee on Jews in old Ghor and Bamiyan

Read the second part of the blog on Jews in old Ghor and Bamiyan by Nabi Saqee

Invisible East postdoctoral researcher, Zhan Zhang, investigates "Hedin 24" and "Hedin 21" (8th century Khotanese documents)

Nabi Saqee finds references to Nowruz in the Bamiyan Papers

A children's collection of stories in progress by Siobhan Templeton (text) and Nicolas Oberlin (illustration)

A blog by the PI of the Invisible East programme, Dr Arezou Azad, on rural administration in the wider Bamiyan area in the 12th and early 13th centuries CE, based on an analysis of barāt documents (receipts) in the "Bamiyan Papers."

We discuss this page long document, dated to Dhu al-qa'da 470 of the Islamic era, i.e. May or June 1078 C.E.

A few words from Warwick Ball on the history, publication and revision of the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan

Nabi Saqee discusses the Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī manuscript at the Bodleian Library (in Persian)

Mateen Arghandehpour writes on the Yarkand Documents

The first in a series of blogs about Middle Persian, by Thomas Benfey.